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| Fully owned by Kinetiq | |
| Industry | Broadcasting |
| Founded | London, United Kingdom, (incorporated 2002) |
| Headquarters | London , United Kingdom |
Key people | Helene Chabran, SVP sales Kirsten Lincoln, Senior Accounnt Manager Kevin Hamilton, Director, Client Engagement |
| Products | Teletrax OnAir |
| Website | teletrax |
Teletrax is a watermarking and fingerprinting technology company.
Teletrax was formed as a subsidiary of Medialink Worldwide Incorporated and Philips Electronics with Medialink owning 76% and Philips 24%. It was launched in 2002. On 14 August 2008, it was announced that Philips Content Identification would take full control of Teletrax by purchasing all of Medialink's shares in the business. [1] On 20 October 2008, the business is known as Philips Content Identification, including Teletrax, announced the completion of its spin-out from Philips Corporate Technologies under the new name of Civolution.
Teletrax uses an underlying technology that is patent-protected by both Digimarc and Civolution. Teletrax's technology embeds a digital watermark and fingerprint into video whenever it is edited, transmitted, broadcast or duplicated.
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Global operations for Teletrax are managed by 4C Insights with offices in Eindhoven, Netherlands, London, New York City, and Los Angeles. Physical maintenance of the Teletrax network takes place at global co-locations and data and processing centers in Eindhoven, London, and New York. Teletrax currently monitors the broadcast of over 1,700 channels in more than 50 countries globally.[ citation needed ]
Teletrax is among the 12 founding members of the Digital Watermarking Alliance, an organization that was formed to promote and educate the public about the benefits of digital watermarking technology.[ citation needed ]
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