provides network-delivered digital media content and services worldwide.
It also develops and markets software products and services that enable the creation, distribution, and consumption of digital media.
The company primarily offers its products under two categories, Consumer Products and Services (CPS), and Business Products and Services (BPS). The CPS category offers digital music products and services, including Rhapsody, an ondemand digital music subscription service; RadioPass, an Internet radio subscription service; and the RealPlayer Music Store, which enables consumers to purchase and download individual digital music tracks.
RealNetworks also owns and operates a digital games service that includes downloadable games products and subscription services.
Its products and services include: RealArcade, an Internet game download service and manager; GamePass, an Internet games subscription service; and GameHouse, a game development studio.
The BPS category develops and provides software products, which enable media content creators, Web site owners, and wireline and wireless network operators to create, secure, and distribute digital media content to personal computers (PC) and nonPC devices.
These software products include: Helix Server, a server software that enables broadcasters and content providers to broadcast live and ondemand audio, video, and other multimedia programming to a numbers of simultaneous users; RealProducer, a multimedia creation and publishing tool that content owners use to convert audio and video content into the company’s RealAudio and RealVideo formats; and Helix DRM, a set of products for the licensing, delivery, and rights management of digital media.
The company offers its services and software for finding, playing, purchasing, and managing free and premium digital content, including music, video, and games.
RealNetworks was founded by Robert Glaser in 1994.
The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
