Activision Blizzard

American video game company
Organization holding_company Q344341
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 16 annual filings
Revenue
$7.53B
▼ 14.5% YoY FY2022
Net Income
$1.51B
▼ 43.9% YoY FY2022
Assets
$27.38B
▲ 9.3% YoY FY2022
EPS (diluted)
$1.92
▼ 44.2% YoY FY2022
$0.00$2.42B$4.84B$7.26B$9.68B FY2007: $1.35BFY2008: $3.03BFY2009: $4.28BFY2010: $4.45B · NI $418.00M (9.4% margin)FY2011: $4.75B · NI $1.08B (22.8% margin)FY2012: $4.86B · NI $1.15B (23.7% margin)FY2013: $4.58B · NI $1.01B (22.0% margin)FY2014: $4.41B · NI $835.00M (18.9% margin)FY2015: $4.66B · NI $892.00M (19.1% margin)FY2016: $6.61B · NI $966.00M (14.6% margin)FY2017: $7.02B · NI $273.00M (3.9% margin)FY2018: $7.50B · NI $1.85B (24.6% margin)FY2019: $6.49B · NI $1.50B (23.2% margin)FY2020: $8.09B · NI $2.20B (27.2% margin)FY2021: $8.80B · NI $2.70B (30.7% margin)FY2022: $7.53B · NI $1.51B (20.1% margin) '07'09'11'13'15'17'19'21'22
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2022-12-31 · accession 0001628280-23-004842

Activision Blizzard

Summary

Activision Blizzard is a holding company[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of holding_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34,231 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Activision Blizzard was a member of game – The German Games Industry Association[3].
  • Activision Blizzard is in the country of United States[4].
  • Activision Blizzard is in the country of US[5].
  • Activision Blizzard's instance of is recorded as holding company[6].
  • Activision Blizzard's instance of is recorded as business[7].
  • Activision Blizzard's founder is recorded as Q4117176[8].
  • Activision Blizzard's headquarters location is recorded as Santa Monica[9].
  • Activision Blizzard's child organization or unit is recorded as Q200491[10].
  • Activision Blizzard's child organization or unit is recorded as Blizzard Entertainment[11].
  • Activision Blizzard's child organization or unit is recorded as King[12].
  • Activision Blizzard's Commons category is recorded as Activision Blizzard[13].
  • Activision Blizzard's industry is recorded as video game industry[14].
  • July 10, 2008 marks the founding of Activision Blizzard[15].
  • 2000-02-17 marks the founding of Activision Blizzard[16].
  • Activision Blizzard's parent organization or unit is recorded as gleif:INR2EJN1ERAN0W5ZP974[17].
  • Activision Blizzard's parent organization or unit is recorded as gleif:INR2EJN1ERAN0W5ZP974[18].
  • Activision Blizzard's official website is recorded as https://www.activisionblizzard.com/[19].
  • Activision Blizzard's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Activision Blizzard[20].
  • Activision Blizzard's described at URL is recorded as https://activisionblizzard.substack.com[21].
  • Activision Blizzard's product or material produced is recorded as Q211096[22].
  • Activision Blizzard's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+9000'}[23].
  • Activision Blizzard's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Activision Blizzard[24].
  • Activision Blizzard's legal form is recorded as XTIQ[25].
  • Activision Blizzard's owner of is recorded as Blizzard Entertainment[26].
  • Activision Blizzard's owner of is recorded as Q200491[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300TPQQDBP9GNOF40[28]

  • Registered legal name: Activision Blizzard, INC.[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[34]

  • Entity created: 2000-02-17[35]

  • LEI first registered: 2013-09-10[36]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-07-07[37]

  • LEI next renewal: 2023-11-03[38]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[39]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[40]

  • Authority entity ID: 3179148[41]

  • Other names: Activision, Holdings, Inc., Activision, Inc.[42]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[43]

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Holding[44]

  • Began / founded: 2008-07-10[45]

  • MusicBrainz ID: faee2c75-1b96-40b1-8390-e8a24b71aa23[46]

Body

Founding

Activision Blizzard's founder is recorded as Q4117176[8]. Recorded inception include July 10, 2008[15] and 2000-02-17[16].

Operations

Activision Blizzard's headquarters location is recorded as Santa Monica[9]. Parent organizations include gleif:INR2EJN1ERAN0W5ZP974[17]. Subsidiaries include Q200491[10], a video game publisher[47], in United States[48], founded in 1979[49], headquartered in Santa Monica[50]; Blizzard Entertainment[11], a video game developer[51], in United States[52], founded in 1991[53], headquartered in Irvine[54]; and King[12], a public company[55], in United Kingdom[56], founded in 2002[57], headquartered in London[58].

Industry

Activision Blizzard's industry is recorded as video game industry[14].

Ownership

Activision Blizzard's product or material produced is recorded as Q211096[22].

Why It Matters

Activision Blizzard ranks in the top 2% of holding_company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34,231 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [12] ↑ . investor.activision.com. investor.activision.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [3] ↑ . game.de. Retrieved . game.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] ↑ . gamespot.com. gamespot.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [42] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [43] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  17. [44] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  18. [45] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  19. [46] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [49] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [51] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [53] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [54] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [55] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [56] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [57] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [58] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [59] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [60] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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