Trace Leaked Media Assets To Their Source

Trace leaked media assets to their source

Quickly identify the source of leaked media assets so you can stop future leaks

Today, no business is an island. Everyone leverages strategic partnerships, engages influencers to hype products, and relies on press to promote events. But too often, media assets central to these activities (such as product images) get leaked early by authorized external partners, despite their knowledge of embargoes and other contractual limitations, resulting in serious material damage to businesses.

Trace leaked images, audio, and video back to the source with Digimarc Leak Detection for Media Assets. Now you can embed invisible or inaudible identifiers into digital images, audio, and video without altering content integrity. These unique identifiers—which can be linked to metadata stored in Digimarc’s Illuminate® platform— remain intact even if the media asset is copied or altered.

If anyone shares a Digimarc-protected image, audio, or video file beyond authorized channels (or violates an embargo, contract, or release date constraints, for example), you can quickly trace the leaked asset back to the perpetrator by uploading it to the Illuminate platform.

Key Features and Capabilities

Invisible or inaudible protection—enabled by a hidden security layer carrying a unique identifier embedded into digital media assets.

Flexible deployment options—to protect media via REST APIs, an intuitive web interface, or our SDK, enabling integration into content workflows or standalone use.

Custom metadata—that you can associate with protected media assets so leaked content can be attributed to a specific recipient, publication, purpose, or anything else.

Leak traceability—so if protected media is found online, you can identify the source of the leak.

Realize the Benefits

• Quickly embed leak traceability into digital assets and associate relevant data in Illuminate.
• Mitigate the damage of leaks while deterring future incidents by quickly identifying leakers and holding them accountable.
• Provide discrete digital assets with immutable, robust ownership identification to protect against unauthorized sharing.
• Deploy with Digimarc’s internal compliance solution to embed permission, expiration, and other usage information into digital assets to guide users