[1] Red Bee has its headquarters in London, England, with branch offices in Glasgow, Cardiff, MediaCityUK in Salford and Newcastle upon Tyne, and international offices in Australia, France, Spain, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, United States and Abu Dhabi.

[4] Clients include television broadcasters such as the BBC, Canal+, Channel 4, GB News, ITV, Sky, TV4, TV5Monde, and UKTV, as well as brands such as Barclays, Bacardi and Hyundai.

While Red Bee Media originates from BBC Broadcast in the United Kingdom, the company stems from Creative Broadcast Services, which was jointly owned by Australia-based Macquarie Capital Alliance Group and Macquarie Bank, and was set up specifically for the purchase of the former BBC operation.

On 1 July 2013, Ericsson announced it would acquire Red Bee Media to complement the company's previous acquisitions in the broadcast and media industry: the broadcast services division of Technicolor, Tandberg Television, HyC Group, Fabrix Systems and Microsoft Mediaroom.

In October 2008, Red Bee Media acquired Mundovisión, the largest independent subtitling and audio description company in Spain.

Red Bee Media acquired Technicolor’s broadcast services division in July 2012 and FYI Television in January 2016.

The fire extinguisher system caused damage to servers and storage devices that resulted in national television channels going off air during primetime.

[20] This caused several people depending on these services to complain to the UK broadcasting industry regulator Ofcom.