Vizrt
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| Type | Public |
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| Genre | Broadcasting |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Bergen, Norway |
| Industry | Broadcast |
| Revenue | 98M US$ (2008) ▲ |
| Employees | 500 (2009) |
| Website | www.vizrt.com |
Vizrt (OSE: VIZ) is a software company that provides a range of solutions for TV stations and other high-end graphics applications. The company is traded publicly at Frankfurt Stock Exchange and at Oslo Stock Exchange. Its headquarter offices are in Bergen, Norway.
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[edit] Products
Vizrt has many graphic design products that are made for media companies. Many of Vizrt’s products specialize in Graphic design and new innovations for the web. Viz Media Hub is Vizrt’s media asset management solution, or to put it in colloquial terms it is an alternative to ”huge tape shelves and storage labels”, which is located on the web. Viz Trio is Vizrt’s most recent development in a 3D design system. It’s features include: “connectivity to multiple newsroom systems,seamless context switching on graphics, Look-Ahead Transition Logic™, multiple clients controlling a single output channel, and integration with non-linear editing systems.” Viz Link brings together Viz media Hub, Viz Trio and production tools and it allows journalists and other media employees to search for videos and stills stored in Viz Media Hub and allows them to edit and present the videos and stills. Viz Ardome is a software that provides immediate access to content and metadata and integrates perfectly with external information sources. Viz Video Wall ER is a technology that creates graphics that surround the viewer. Viz Video Wall ER is mainly used for television broadcasting. Viz Artist 3 is a redevelopment of Vizrt’s successful graphics tools and it builds complete virtual sets and complex 3D animations.
[edit] Mergers and acquisitions
- 1999: Pilot Broadcast Systems AS and Peak Software Technologies GmbH are merging to form one company, Peak Broadcast Systems on September 29, 1999
- 2000: Vizrt is formed by the merger of RT-SET with Peak Broadcast Systems on July 4, 2000
- 2005: Vizrt acquired Curious Software 1 June 2005 , the makers of Curious World Maps (CWM) and Curious Map Animator. CWM is a GIS application that generate high quality map rendering (stills and clips) as well as output high resolution terrain mesh in a variety of formats (VRML, OBJ...)
- 2005: Vizrt to Acquire 19% of Adactus Ltd. on the September 13, 2005
- 2006: Vizrt acquired Ardendo at the 26'th of April 2006 - Ardendo is a software company focusing on complete Media Asset Management solutions for the Broadcast Industry.
- 2008: Vizrt acquired Escenic in August. Escenic is a software company providing editorial and publishing software for media companies.
[edit] Customers
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Fox News, BBC, ESPN, CBS, ABC, TNT, CBC, The Weather Channel, NYSE, CTV, TV Azteca, Televisa, Univision, CNN, WFAA, NFL Network, ITN, NHK, Sky News, Sky News Australia, ORF, Prestonwood Baptist Church (MegaChurch in the U.S.), NRK (Norway), TV2 (Norway), TV3 (Norway), Viasat 4 (Norway), TVNorgeSVT, Canal 13 (Chile), TVN (Chile), CDF (Chile), C5N (Argentina), TN (Argentina) and Canal Trece (Argentina) are among the many well respected television news networks that as of 2007 use Vizrt's software[1] [2].
