Grupo Globo is a privately owned Brazilian media conglomerate founded in 1925. Headquartered in Brazil, it employs approximately 16,970 people and generated over $1 billion in revenue in 2023. Its primary business is broadcast television and radio, though it also has holdings in internet and print media across Latin America.
Grupo Globo celebrated its centennial and TV Globo's 60th anniversary on September 2, 2025, with João Roberto Marinho, the President, receiving the 2025 International Emmy Directorate Award. On an earlier date, Marcelo Hobaika, Grupo Globo's director of public policy, stated at LACCA's annual conference in São Paulo that article 19 of Brazil’s Civil Rights Framework for the Internet is unconstitutional and outdated. Separately, BetMGM, in a joint venture with Grupo Globo, anticipates a potential 10% market share in the regulated Brazilian market, according to MGM Resorts International CEO Bill Hornbuckle. Grupo Globo's origins trace back to a newspaper founded on July 29, 1925, by Irineu Marinho, which evolved into Brazil's largest media and communications conglomerate.
Globo offers 7 products in the media and telecoms services industry. Globo's product portfolio comprises of content rights, broadcast television and radio and media and TV services.
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Globo's revenues were over $1B in 2024. Caretta Research has split Globo's revenue into 4 different product categories, the largest of which is linear (national channel groups). For full access to Globo's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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Globo currently holds 66 broadcasting rights for sports competitions including american football, motorsports, canoeing and kayaking, climbing, tennis, volleyball, beach volleyball, futsal, combat sports, basketball, aquatics and swimming, multi-sport, soccer | association football, athletics, surfing and gymnastics.