CNN
CNN is a news media company focused on breaking news and storytelling that is expanding its content footprint beyond news into areas including business, entertainment, food, travel, sports, health, and weather, while building advertising products designed to connect audiences across streaming, digital video, social, and audio.
Last updated Oct 5, 2026 by the ATDb Editorial Team · Connections updated Oct 26, 2026
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- Employees
- 5001-10000
- Revenue
- $1B+
About
One of the world's leading premium news publishers and a top-tier digital advertising destination, operating within Warner Bros. Discovery's consolidated ad sales ecosystem.
CNN is a news media company focused on breaking news and storytelling that is expanding its content footprint beyond news into areas including business, entertainment, food, travel, sports, health, and weather, while building advertising products designed to connect audiences across streaming, digital video, social, and audio. CNN is also developing interactive "brand agents" and scene-level contextual AI tools that allow advertising creative to be adapted or placed against relevant moments, pointing toward more responsive and conversational ad experiences. CNN is additionally building an agentic infrastructure, with its international commercial arm scoping agentic protocols and planning to test properties against LLMs before moving toward agent-to-agent media trading, with a full trading model targeted for Q1 2027. Source 1: cnn.com — About Us Source 2: thedrum.com — CNN's Guy Griggs on brand agents and the next phase of ... Source 3: digiday.com — CNN builds in-house agent infrastructure as it prepares for ...
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Media / Advertising
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CNN.com
High-traffic digital news destination offering display, video, and programmatic advertising inventory to national and global advertisers.
CNN Linear TV
24-hour cable news network with broad national and international reach, offering traditional and addressable TV advertising.
CNN Digital Video
Streaming and on-demand video content with pre-roll, mid-roll, and branded content advertising opportunities.
CNN International
Global news distribution reaching audiences in over 200 countries, enabling international advertising campaigns.
One WBD Ad Sales
Warner Bros. Discovery's unified advertising sales platform that packages CNN inventory with other WBD properties for cross-platform buys.
CNN Underscored
Commerce and product review content vertical offering native advertising and affiliate-driven monetization opportunities.
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- 1980 · Founded