13 Facts About RealNetworks

RealNetworks, Inc is a provider of artificial intelligence and computer vision based products.

RealNetworks was a pioneer in Internet streaming software and services.

RealNetworks provides subscription-based online entertainment services and mobile entertainment and messaging services.

RealNetworks was founded in 1994 by Rob Glaser, an ex-Microsoft executive, and a management team including Phil Barrett, Andy Sharpless, and Stephen Buerkle.

In January 2004, RealNetworks announced the RealPlayer Music Store, featuring digital rights management restricted music in the AAC file format.

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RealNetworks introduced a mobile phone app called Listen in April 2014 that plays custom ringtones to those calling the user's phone.

Notable RealNetworks employees have included Alex Alben; the first Chief Privacy Officer of Washington State; Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPod; musician Daniel House; and Philip Rosedale, the founder of Linden Lab.

In 2017, RealNetworks launched Kontxt, a product that offers management of text messaging in mobile networks.

In March 2021, RealNetworks unveiled KONTXT for Voice to identify and stop scam robocalls.

RealNetworks entered the computer game market in October 2001 with RealArcade, a PC game distribution application that allows users to play casual video games for free for 60 minutes, then decide if they want to purchase it.

In 2010, RealNetworks re-branded its games division under the name Gamehouse.

RealNetworks was later found to have violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and RealNetworks' contract with the DVD Copy Control Association, as the software allowed anyone to save a movie they do not legally own.

RealNetworks alleges that Real Alternative is a reverse engineered package.