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The Industry Standard For Licensing Automation

ImageSpan provides a licensing automation platform running as a managed service and on patent-pending technology. The company gives its clients completely automated control over the licensing and distribution of any digital content or mashup via website, download player, or triggered by any Web services-based event.

ImageSpan's LicenseStream is especially useful for sophisticated Web 2.0 social and advertising network environments which deliver a rich and wide variety of content types to various social groups and targeted demographics, and require a highly scalable and transactional process. These organizations typically use legacy or manual tools and processes to license and settle these transactions resulting in higher transaction costs, lower margins, and lower customer satisfaction rates.

LicenseStream enables easy assignment of revenues to multiple parties, while providing quick and efficient registration, rights management and transaction settlement capabilities – all in an automated fashion. The LicenseStream solution results in reduced costs to advertisers, ad agencies, design firms and publishers by facilitating precise management of each rights package. Currently we provide extensive content licensing infrastructure for Omnicom, Sports Illustrated, TAKKLE, Dealer.com and Visible World.

Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is backed by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, a leading international media company. ImageSpan also is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the international, multi-industry standards body for image licensing.

ImageSpan has created LicenseStream to be a licensing platform for all media types and for all levels of business. With its three distinct services – LicenseStream Enterprise, LicenseStream Creator and LicenseStream Production – ImageSpan has a diverse business ecosystem. This revenue diversity increases and enhances the services ImageSpan provides and will bring to all its platform users.

ImageSpan has three complementary licensing services:

LicenseStream Enterprise (LSe)
LicenseStream Enterprise delivers a licensing and billing platform to manage the complete media transaction cycles of: rights, permissions, pricing assignment, license generation, commerce management, royalty and billing settlement for existing and newly-created media content. In addition, OneStream™ is a LicenseStream Enterprise application that has the unique ability to aggregate content from many sources and offer that content for licensing through a single user interface. This empowers LicenseStream partners the ability to create their own online stock gallery.

LicenseStream Creator (LSc)
LicenseStream Creator preserves the underlying power of the LicenseStream Enterprise solution while tailoring it to meet the needs of individual content creators. The service will be available at two levels:

  • LicenseStream Creator enables users to register, describe, license, manage their photo and video content library, publish and receive royalties. Users pay a commission fee of 10 percent in addition to the special introductory subscription fee of $39.99, which includes 2 GB of secure, backed-up storage.

  • LicenseStream Creator Pro, which builds on all the benefits of LicenseStream standard. A more robust "business ready" solution, LicenseStream Pro offers additional licensing, reporting and publishing flexibility and options. LicenseStream Pro users pay a commission fee of 5 percent per transaction in addition to the annual subscription fee of $99.99, which includes 10 GB of secure, backed-up storage.

  • For both LicenseStream Creator and LicenseStream Creator Pro users, we offer unlimited additional storage sold at steep discount bulk rates, packaged in 5, 10, 25 and 50 gigabyte packages.

LicenseStream Production (LSp):
LicenseStream Production provides high-quality and scalable local video solutions. We offer our partners national reach to thousands of videographers who can quickly shoot local video content, tailored to local businesses' specific needs. We also create custom templates to compile video into simple ads or Web videos, extending scalability and consistency. Powered by ImageSpan's LicenseStream platform, all video is immediately rights-cleared and licensable for advertising, editorial and commercial broadcast or online display.

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