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title: "Activision Blizzard: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-activision-blizzard
type: Organization
wikidata: Q344341
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard
website: https://www.activisionblizzard.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Activision Blizzard

> Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2008-07-10
- Headquarters: Santa Monica
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://www.activisionblizzard.com/
- Employees: 9,000 (as of 2016-05-01)
- Also known as: Activision Blizzard, Inc., Activision|Blizzard
- Industries: video game industry

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/ATVI_AB
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/activision-blizzard
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/activision.blizzard.atvi
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/activisionblizzard

## Key people

- Bobby Kotick, founder (CEO and founder of Activision Blizzard)
- Carla Meninsky (American video game designer)
- Cher Scarlett (American software engineer, writer, labor activist, and corporate whistleblower)

## Revenue

- undated: USD 3 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 4.3 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 4.4 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 4.8 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 4.9 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 4.6 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 4.4 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 4.7 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 6.6 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 7 billion (SEC filing)
- 2007-01-01: USD 1.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2008-01-01: USD 3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2009-01-01: USD 4.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2011-01-01: USD 4.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2012-01-01: USD 4.9 billion (Wikidata)
- 2013-01-01: USD 4.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2014-01-01: USD 4.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: USD 4.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2016-01-01: USD 6.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: USD 7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: USD 7.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: USD 6.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: USD 8.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: USD 8.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2022-01-01: USD 7.5 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Parent: [Xbox Game Studios](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-xbox-game-studios.md)
Subsidiaries: Blizzard Entertainment, Activision, King

## Products

- Call of Duty

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Activision Blizzard, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-activision-blizzard#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q344341, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0000718877

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