What exactly is Barça Studios?

Barça Studios is the entity that centralises the creation, production and commercialisation of FC Barcelona's entire audiovisual range that includes Barça TV, the club's television channel, in its management.

Barça Studios is one of the four branches included in Barça Corporate, which FC Barcelona conceived to achieve immediate income in the face of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The other four divisions are:

•    Barça Licensing and Merchandising (BLM): The network of shops to market and sell the club's clothing and product licences.

•    Barça Innovation Hub: The platform for promoting scientific and technological research applied to sport and knowledge.

•    Barça Academy: The network of football schools, with nearly 50 centres around the world to spread the football training model and the club's values.

•    Barça Studios: The production company that centralises FC Barcelona's audiovisual range. In the recent past 49% of Barça Studios have been sold off, with the club still retaining the majority stake and control.

The mission of Barça Studios is, on the one hand, to produce audiovisual content and feed the club's channels (such as the Barça TV channel, social networks and the global streaming platform Barça TV+) and, on the other hand, to create new formats that can be commercially viable through other global operators.

On 1 August 2022, Barça made official the sale of 24.5% of Barça Studios to Orpheus Media and another 24.5% to Socios.com. Each company was to pay €100 million, adding to the club's coffers and accelerating the growth of FC Barcelona's audiovisual, blockchain, NFT and Web.3 strategy.

The transaction was carried out by the authorisation of FC Barcelona's General Assembly of members to activate the sale of part of these club assets, the so-called financial levers.