Music & film analytics · Nielsen
Gracenote
Nielsen-owned entertainment metadata and identification database covering music, TV and video, used to power search and recommendations.
Gracenote, acquired by Nielsen in 2016, is an entertainment metadata provider rather than a reporting dashboard: it supplies music and video recognition, unified IDs, and structured descriptive data — track and album metadata, TV listings across 85+ countries, cast and crew information, and sports statistics — that other companies embed into search, recommendation and content-discovery products. Media companies license Gracenote's data and APIs to power features like automatic track ID, program guides and content matching, rather than using it to analyze their own audience or sales performance. It sits alongside Luminate in Nielsen's broader entertainment-data portfolio but serves a metadata/identification role rather than a measurement one.
At a glance
| Vendor | Nielsen |
|---|---|
| Pricing model | Quote only |
| Free tier | No |
| Deployment | Cloud |
| Open source | No |
| Best for | Media and consumer-electronics companies needing licensed entertainment metadata and content ID, not audience analytics. |
Pricing
Licensed as enterprise data/API contracts; no public pricing page was found.
Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.
Features
- Music track and album metadata and recognition
- Unified entertainment IDs across music, video and sports
- TV listings and program guide data for 85+ countries
- Cast, crew and biography data
- Video content descriptors for search and discovery
- Sports statistics from 4,500+ leagues and competitions
Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026