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Universal Pictures
American film and distribution company
Universal Music Group
Dutch–American music corporation
Blizzard Entertainment
American video game publisher and developer owned by Microsoft
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Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one of the largest third-party video game publishers in the world and was the top United States publisher in 2016.
Infinity Ward
American video game developer
Activision Blizzard
American video game company
Treyarch
Treyarch Corporation ( ; formerly Treyarch Invention LLC) is an American video game developer based in Los Angeles with additional studio locations in Vancouver, Canada; and Austin, Texas. Founded in 1996 by Peter Akemann and Doğan Köslü, it was acquired by Activision in 2001. The studio is known for its work for the Call of Duty series, which it develops alongside Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, and Raven Software.
Veolia
Veolia Environnement S.A., branded as Veolia, is a French transnational company with activities in three main service and utility areas traditionally managed by public authorities – water management, waste management and energy services. In 2025, Veolia employed 215,000 employees in 56 countries. Its revenue in that year was recorded at €44.396 billion. It is quoted on Euronext Paris. It is headquartered in Aubervilliers.
Sierra Entertainment
American video game company
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
American publisher of textbooks
MCA Inc.
American media, entertainment conglomerate
SFR
SFR S.A. (or Altice France S.A. for the group) (; ) is a French telecommunications company. It is both the second-oldest mobile network operator and the second largest telecommunications company in France, after Orange.
Banijay Entertainment
French entertainment content production and distribution company
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former subsidiary of Vivendi S.A. and holdings company for Sierra Entertainment and Blizzard Entertainment
NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan LLC
Japanese entertainment company
Neversoft
Neversoft Entertainment, Inc. was an American video game developer based in Woodland Hills, California. The studio was founded by Joel Jewett, Mick West and Chris Ward in July 1994 and was acquired by Activision in October 1999. Initially, the studio worked with Playmates Toys, where they worked on the game Skeleton Warriors (1996), which was based on an animated television series of the same name. Throughout 1996, the studio grew, and worked on projects with Crystal Dynamics and Sony Computer Entertainment, but due to internal conflicts, they were cancelled.
Toys for Bob
video game developer
The Weather Channel
American cable TV channel with forecasts and shows
Havas
thumb|Building at 62, rue de Richelieu in Paris, built by the and used by Havas from 1921 as head office of its advertising operations
Maroc Telecom
Moroccan telecommunications company
Seagram Company Ltd.
The Seagram Company Ltd. (which traded as '''Seagram's''') was a Canadian multinational beverage and, during the last five years of its existence, entertainment conglomerate formerly headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 1857 as a distiller of Canadian whisky based in Waterloo, Ontario, it was in the 1990s the largest owner of alcoholic beverage brands in the world.
Canal+
French film and television studio and distributor
EMI Music Japan
Japanese record company (2007–2013)
Luxoflux
Luxoflux Corp. was an American video game developer founded by Peter Morawiec and Adrian Stephens in January 1997, and based in Santa Monica, California.
Loews Cineplex Entertainment
American theater chain
Rogue
American film production company
Budcat Creations
video game developer based in Iowa City, Iowa, United States and was a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision
Shaba Games
American video game developer
RedOctane
RedOctane, Inc. was an American electronic entertainment company. They were best known for producing the Guitar Hero series, beginning in November 2005. RedOctane became a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision in 2006, which later closed down in February 2010.
Universal Filmed Entertainment Group
division of NBCUniversal
Universal Interactive
defunct American video game publisher
Animation Magic
Russian-American animation studio