Company

Company Timeline

1994

  • One-person company called Signet founded by astrophysicist Geoff Rhoads

1995-1996

  • Original company name, Signet, changed to Digimarc
  • $4.5 million in venture capital funding led by AVI Capital
  • First digital watermarking plug-ins for images bundled with Adobe Photoshop, Corel and Micrografx
  • Company grows to 10 employees

1997

  • First patent awarded
  • $5.8 million in second round of funding led by Reuters
  • Company releases Batch Embedder for watermarking multiple photos, launches MarcSpider for image tracking

1998-1999

  • Multi-year contract with consortium of central banks
  • Three business units: MediaBridge, MediaCommerce, SecureDocuments 
  • IPO raises more than $90 million
  • 70+ employees

2001

  • Company featured in Ten Stocks That Could Change the World, the first hard copy book to deploy Digimarc watermarking technology ‒ an imperceptible watermark that linked to the book's website

2003-2007

  • Digital watermarking adopted by states for secure driver licenses
  • Company develops first Enhanced Driver License with RFID for border crossing
  • Entertainment industry deploys digital watermarking for pre-release movies, music, broadcast
  • Strategic partnership with Nielsen for enhanced monitoring and management of online entertainment

2008

  • ID business sold for $310 million, focus turns to enabling pervasive, intuitive computing
  • Digimarc named one of 25 best NASDAQ performers
  • MDB Capital Ground ranks Digimarc in 99.8th percentile among 4,000 companies

2010

  • Long-term agreement with Intellectual Ventures to jointly market Digimarc’s patent portfolio and broaden adoption of its technologies
  • Arbitron enters into a collaborative licensing agreement
  • Digimarc launches Digimarc® Discover
  • Digimarc moves up 7 slots and is ranked 20th in The Wall Street Journal's Patent Scorecard™

2011

  • Digimarc® Discover Online Services Portal opens for business
  • The Digimarc® Discover platform places third in CTIA's Emerging Technology Awards
  • Receive CLARUS award at MDB Capital's Bright Lights Conference

2012

  • Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue uses Digimarc® Discover
  • The Patent Board ranks Digimarc third in its top 50 innovative companies in information technology
  • The first digitally watermarked cookbook, "America's Favorite Food" is released
  • Digimarc aquires Attributor Corporation

 

Digimarc is a leading innovator and technology provider.

Based in Beaverton, Oregon (USA), Digimarc enables businesses and governments worldwide to enrich everyday living with the means to identify all forms of content, including audio, video and imagery. We develop solutions, license intellectual property and provide development services to business partners across a wide range of industries.

Our Vision

All of Digimarc’s solutions reflect a unified vision: to enrich everyday living via pervasive, intuitive computing. We accomplish this by creating a new means of communication ‒ based on digital watermarking technology ‒ that can be embedded into media and objects, allowing computers and digital devices to see, hear and engage with the world around them much like people do. The result is that consumers and organizations can easily access digital content when, where and how they want it.

There are tens of billions of digitally watermarked objects already in use today, and hundreds of millions of devices that can detect them and respond — but that’s just the beginning. Digimarc is partnering with industry leaders worldwide to make intuitive computing a reality by bringing convenience, simplicity and enhanced experiences to users’ interactions with media and the physical world.

Digimarc Technology at Work

Digimarc and its partners offer a wide range of applications available today:

  • Link from print-to-web and instantly access relevant information or content online from a handheld digital device, like your mobile phone.
  • Communicate ownership, copyright and other details about your digital images and how you can be contacted.
  • Authenticate content and objects to confirm they are genuine, unaltered and from an authorized source.
  • Monitor broadcasts and Internet distribution of television programming in geographical markets or over the Internet for market research and rights management.
  • Identify and manage content by giving it a persistent digital identity that can be used to easily locate, filter and track it, and determine where it leaves its authorized distribution path.
  • Deter counterfeiting and piracy by facilitating content copyright communication, filtering and forensic tracking, and by providing controls over the recording, playback or copying of content.
  • Secure and authenticate credentials enabling identification issuers to increase security as well as reliably authenticate them at various points of inspection.

Seeking great minds

To keep pace with our thriving industry, we're always on the look out for talented individuals who can help us better serve our customers and grow our business. If you are looking for a challenging, rewarding position at a world class technology company, please review our career listings.