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Infoflows is a software and services company that provides digital content business intelligence services. Through the application of digital object recognition, search and advanced internet tracking technology, Infoflows is able to provide to our customers valuable business information on the use and abuse of their digital content. Infoflows is currently focused on the digital video, print publishing and the stock photography market where our Fedmark Service enables our customers to self monitor their licensed intellectual property.
In 2006, worldwide gross revenues generated by the motion pictures industry amounted to over $25 billion. In 2006, US gross revenues for premium content generated by the cable industry was over $36 billion. In 2006, piracy is estimated to have cost these industries over $18.2 billion. There are some estimates today that as many as 500,000 digital movies being exchanged illegally over the web.
In 2006, worldwide gross revenues generates by the stock image industry amounted to approximately $2.5B with the majority of this revenue generated by a few large image distributors. While there is no official organization tracking either the size of this market or the amount of piracy, estimates exist that 15% - 30% of represented images are used either out-of-scope or unlicensed. There are some estimates that believe that within the online use category; approximately 90% of uses are unlicensed.
Estimates are that the content industry is losing over $13 billion to misuse of content according to the MPAA and the RIAA. Content owners and distributors today are struggling to develop the business intelligence tools to understand how their content is used in the internet. Infoflows believe it has the tools and capabilities to solve this problem.
Infoflows was founded in 2004 and is based in Redmond, WA. Infoflows offers a suite of services that enable content owners and distributors to track their digital content.
For More Information Contact: info@infoflows.com