Mass media
                                    Formed in 2022 when AT&T spun-off WarnerMedia, which then merged with Discovery Inc. Brands include Warner Bros, HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, DC Comics and video game publishing.
                            Company Assessment
            (Last updated Sep 2025)        
        
        
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                Warner Bros. Discovery Inc
            
                            
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         Low ESG Risk
        Low ESG Risk
    
    
        Sustainalytics, a top ESG research firm, evaluates environmental, social, and governance risks for over 16,000 companies. Its ESG Risk Rating reflects how much risk a company faces in its industry and how well it manages those risks. The final score includes both unmanaged and unmanageable risks, and companies are rated on a scale from negligible (0-10) to severe (40+). This company received an ESG Risk Rating of 18.1, placing it in the "low risk" category (retrieved April 2025).
    
            Source: Sustainalytics
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         Excessive CEO pay
        Excessive CEO pay
    
    
        As You Sow's 2023 report, 'The 100 Most Overpaid CEOs', reveals the 100 most overpaid CEOs from USA's 500 largest public companies (as determined by the S&P 500 list). This company's CEO, David M. Zaslav came in at number 1 on the list, having been paid US$246,573,481 in 2022. According to the report, "Most CEOs have come to be grossly overpaid, and that overpayment is harmful to the companies, the shareholders, the customers, the other employees, the economy, and society as a whole."
    
            Source: As You Sow
                                    (2023)
                            
        
    
         JUST Capital ranking
        JUST Capital ranking
    
    
        JUST Capital polls Americans every year to identify the issues that matter most in defining just business behaviour. For their 2025 rankings the public identified 17 issues, which are organised under the headings Workers, Communities, Customers, Shareholders and Environment. JUST Capital then define metrics that map to those issues and track and analyse the largest, publicly traded U.S. companies. This analysis powers their rankings, in which this company ranked 625th of 940 companies, and 8th of 13 Media companies.
    
            Source: JUST Capital
                                    (2025)
                            
        
    
         CEO Pay Ratio of 398:1
        CEO Pay Ratio of 398:1
    
    
        In 2024 the median pay for a worker at this company was US$130,316. The CEO was paid 398 times this amount. Exorbitant CEO pay is a major contributor to rising inequality. CEOs are getting more because of their power to set pay, not because they are increasing productivity or possess specific, high-demand skills. The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or taxed more). In contrast, the CEO-to-typical-worker compensation ratio was 20-to-1 in 1965 and 58-to-1 in 1989.
    
            Source: AFL-CIO
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         15.0% in Newsweek Green Ranking 2017
        15.0% in Newsweek Green Ranking 2017
    
    
        This company received a score of 15/100 in the Newsweek Green Ranking 2017, which ranks the world's largest publicly traded companies on eight indicators covering energy, greenhouse gases, water, waste, fines and penalties, linking executive pay to sustainability targets, board-level committee oversight of environmental issues and third-party audits. Ranking methodology by Corporate Knights and HIP Investor.
    
            Source: Newsweek
                                    (2017)
                            
        
    
         Corporate responsibility claims
        Corporate responsibility claims
    
    
        This company has corporate responsibility claims on its website under the headings 
purposeful storytelling, engaging with impact and creating responsibly and sustainably. They also have a diversity and inclusion policy.
    
            Source: company website
                                    (2020)
                            
        
    
         CDP Climate Change score of C
        CDP Climate Change score of C
    
    
        In 2024, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) asked companies to provide data about their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change risk. Responding companies are scored across four key areas: disclosure; awareness; management; and leadership. This company received a CDP Climate Change score of C.
    
            Source: CDP
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
         Modern Slavery statement
        Modern Slavery statement
    
    
        California, the UK and Australia have all enacted legislation requiring companies operating within their borders to disclose their efforts to eradicate modern slavery from their operations and supply chains. Follow the link to see this company's disclosure statement.
    
            Source: company website
                                    (2020)
                            
        
    
         OpenSecrets.org profile
        OpenSecrets.org profile
    
    
        OpenSecrets.org tracks the influence of money on U.S. politics, and how that money affects policy and citizens' lives. Follow link to see Discovery Inc's record of political donations, lobbying, outside spending and more.
    
            Source: Open Secrets
                                    (2024)
                            
        
    
Company Details
Type:
                Public company
                                        Founded:
                2022
                                                                            Subsidiaries:
                
        Warner Bros. Games
                            
            
                
                
                    
    
                Video games
                                    Video games division of Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary, Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming & Interactive Entertainment. Has acquired several game studios including Monolith Productions, TT Games, Midway Games and Rocksteady Studios.
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Products / Brands
Warner Bros. Games
                Batman: Arkham
                                Action-Adventure Games
                
                                                        
            
                    
                Game of Thrones: Conquest
                                Mobile Games
                
                                                        
            
                    
                Golf Clash
                                Mobile Games
                
                                                        
            
                    
                Hogwarts Legacy
                                Role-playing Games
                
                                                        
            
                    
                Injustice
                                Action Games
                
                                                        
            
                    
                Lego
                                Platform Games
                
                                                        
            
                    
                Middle-earth
                                Action-Adventure Games
                
                                                        
            
                    
                Mortal Kombat
                                Action Games
                
                                                        
            
             
                    