KIT Digital, provider of video asset management software and related services, have announced the purchase of IP video management and delivery company, Ioko for $91.4 million in cash and stock.
“Ioko provides an end-to-end managed cloud-based platform for multi-screen video delivery over connected IP devices to telecommunications cable, media and …
Continue reading »In this article, S. Shyamala at Financial Chronicle identifies the unwillingness of the Indian film industry to embrace the latest digital technologies. Both a lack of knowledge and also financial issues severely hamper the adoption of digital technologies in the sector, and despite some market penetration by digital asset management …
Continue reading »A research project conducted by BML has found in a survey of the UK’s top publishing companies that revenue from e-book sales was predicted to increase significantly in 2011 – 2012, representing a tipping point for mass market adoption of new electronic formats.
“‘If 2010 has been acknowledged as the …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains, has announced that technology private equity investment firm, Accel-KKR has made a ‘substantial investment’ into their business. Hassan Kotob, Executive Chairman of North Plains commented:
“Today’s global marketing organizations are struggling to keep pace with the growing volume of …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Nuxeo, have been named as “100 companies that matter” by KMWorld:
“We are pleased to be recognized by KMWorld. Adding Nuxeo to the ‘100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management’ list is a validation of the innovation that we bring to …
Continue reading »RealStoryGroup present a free webinar entitled: “The Right Way to Select Technology for the Enterprise” where Tony Byrne will present various techniques RealStory use to evaluate vendors as an alternative to the traditional RFP & Pitch/Demo process.
Tony will outline how you can avoid some of the pitfalls of conventional …
Continue reading »As reported by WhichStockAgency.com, French news stock library Sygma which was liquidated by former owners Corbis in May of last year may have 25% of its collection (which is controlled by the liquidator) destroyed:
“It had been hoped that the Sygma brand would continue but it now seems …
Continue reading »Last week, Google announced that they were introducing 12 new file formats to the Google Docs Viewer, they include:
DAM Vendor, Extensis have launched a DAM Learning Centre that aims to educate users of DAM solutions about Digital Asset Management concepts. The site contains various articles and “how to” information about getting ready to implement DAM:
“DAM Learning Center features articles, documents, tools and videos from experts in …
Continue reading »We reported last year that Amazon’s Kindle sales had outstripped hardback titles. As reported today by The BBC, they now outsell paperback editions too:
“Amazon announced that in the US since the start of the year it had sold 115 e-book downloads for every 100 paperback books, even …
Continue reading »In a recent blog article, Encoding.com providers of video encoding services, fought back against Sorenson Media’s claim that “Sorenson Media have the right and only proven enterprise-grade Cloud transcoding solutions”. At Digital Asset Management News, we cannot help but agree that Sorenson may have overstated their position in the market, …
Continue reading »Resourceshelf.com has some highlights of research carried out by Primary Research into digitization projects carried out by libraries and museums in the United States. Some stand-out stats of particular relevance to DAM include:
