Posts Tagged ‘image tracker’

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Offir Gutelzon Is Invited to Speak at Digital Innovators Summit, March 3rd, 2009

Offir Gutelzon, CEO of PicScout has been invited to speak at the Digital Innovators Summit in Berlin Germany on March 3rd, 2009 as an innovative company in the area of Content and Search. Offir will talk about how PicScout’s Image Tracking Solution: Image Tracker helps image owners protect their copyrighted images on the web and in print media.

The two day conference is co-sponsored by the Association of German Magazine Publishers (VDZ), CeBIT, the world’s largest trade fair for digital IT and telecommunications solutions, and emediaSF, an American digital media research, analysis and consulting company. The event is endorsed by the Israeli Trade Center in Germany and the Israeli Export Institute (IEICI) is involved in the organization of the event.

Monday, February 16th, 2009

PicScout’s Offir Gutelzon Promoted to CEO

Offir Offir Gutelzon was appointed to be PicScout’s CEO. Gutelzon is a co-founder of PicScout and in his previous position as General Manager led the company’s development and implementation of the leading image recognition solution Image Tracker ™.

After the announcement was made, Gutelzon commented, ”I look forward to this challenge and am confident in our team’s abilities to continue to build innovative solutions. We will be using our technology platform to enhance our Software as a Service (SaaS) offering and create new applications and tools for our customers and partners to help them solve their copyright issues. I want to thank PicScout’s co-founder, Eyal Gura, who as founding CEO was instrumental to PicScout’s success from initial vision to market leadership.”

”Six years after its founding, PicScout is a profitable market leader with a unique and scalable image recognition technology and most importantly, a strong team with entrepreneurial culture” says Eyal Gura , PicScout co-Founder and chairman of the board. “The Board of Directors congratulates Offir and has confidence in Offir’s ability to take the company to even higher levels”

As General Manager and co-founder of PicScout, Offir led all product management and R&D activities. Prior to PicScout, Offir worked with several start-up companies and was involved in the vision and creation of various software and hardware solutions. One of the start-ups was Tundo Telecommunications where Offir held product marketing and project management positions. Offir served in a key technology unit of the Israel Defense Force and is a graduate of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program of IDC Herzliya.

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

PicScout Announces Their First New Customer for 2009

NordicPhotos, one of the largest photo agencies in the Nordics

We are happy to announce our first new customer for 2009, NordicPhotos of Stockholm, Sweden. NordicPhotos is an online photo agency that sells rights based photography from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

In order to protect their digital images, the group chose to use PicScout’s Image Tracker ™ Solution, the leading solution for image tracking and monitoring images in various media.

PicScout is currently responsible for detecting over 90% of all online image infringements detection worldwide and is active in a growing list of territories all over the globe. Image Tracker ™ technology monitors commercial internet sites to report back our clients’ data analytics about their images.

Arnaldur Gauti Johnson, Managing Director of NordicPhotos, stated, “PicScout has a wonderful technology for stock image collections like ours, and we appreciate how much time and effort we save by receiving the Image Tracker reports”. Offir Gutelzon, CEO of PicScout, added,” We are happy to add NordicPhotos, one of the largest stock photography groups in the Nordic countries, to our family of satisfied customers. We have recently added several new features to our technology and solutions to provide customers such as NordicPhotos with tools to increase their revenues and their ability to protect their images.”

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

PicScout Wishes Our Customers and Partners a Happy and Successful New Year

We can’t believe 2008 is about to end, and 2009 is just around the corner. So many events and changes have taken place, including the successful funding of PicApp and its becoming a separate company, a multi-year renewal of our contract with Getty Images, and a significant improvement of our technology which will generate more opportunities for our customers and partners.

We also had an important addition to our team – Jeff Downey, our new Director of Sales & Business Development is based in Chicago. His experience spans startup companies as well as market leaders like Getty Images. We will be adding more members to our Marketing and Sales Team in January- we will update you shortly.

The PicScout team is looking forward to a successful year for the company and our customers and partners in 2009, with a new technological solution that will bridge the gap between the image owner/ licensor and the image user to create more efficient processes from image selection to licensing to renewals.

We also look forward to continuing to provide great service and solutions to all of our loyal customers and partners and welcoming more new customers to PicScout.

I would like to thank the wonderful PicScout Team for a great 2008-Let’s work together to make 2009 even better.

Offir

Offir Gutelzon , CEO, PicScout