Vizrt Ltd. announced today that the Company has signed a deal worth in excess of USD 425,000 for the implementation of hardware upgrades with a Broadcaster in Eastern Europe.

New Records:
Full Year and Quarterly Revenues
Full Year and Quarterly EBIT
Strong Cash Generation

Vizrt Ltd. has signed a deal worth approximately USD 380,000 for the implementation of Media Asset Management (MAM) products with a Broadcaster in Latin America.

Vizrt Ltd. announced today that the Company has signed a deal worth in excess of USD 1 Million for the implementation of a Media Asset Management (MAM) system with a Broadcaster in the United States.

Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, has completed the implementation of Vizrt’s “Newsroom Connect” ActiveX plug-in for Viz Content Pilot at TVE — Spain’s largest public television network.

Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that the Company has signed a deal worth about USD 300,000 for the implementation of Broadcast Graphics products with a South American TV Channel.

Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that the Company has promoted Bernt Kare Johannessen to Chief Development Officer.

This newly created position is effective immediately and will complete the Corporate Management team for Vizrt.

Version 4.5 is a minor update to Vizrt's sport analysis tool, Libero Highlight™. This update to Libero Highlight provides many valuable features that improve turn-around time and post production of clips. Edit recorded playlists quickly using the Property Editor, interactive annotation editing, and record new elements into existing recorded playlists.

The Vizrt Online (Escenic) support team is moving to a new support system over the weekend of 16th-18th of December.

We have launched a new forum for Vizrt Online products: Escenic Content Engine, Escenic Content Studio, Viz Community Expansion, Viz Mobile Expansion, In-Page, InDesign plug-in, etc.

Version 5.5 is a minor update to Vizrt's content control system Viz Content Pilot™. The update includes a host of features aimed at improving the workflow from the newsroom to the control room. 

Vizrt and Navteq, the world’s leading provider of vector mapping data, have released the 2011 street data for the USA. The 2011 data provides detailed vectors for new roads, addresses and points of interest which can be search from within Viz World and Viz Curious Maps.

Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that the Company has signed a deal worth USD 520,000 for the implementation of broadcast graphics solutions with a Korean TV channel.

Enables Designers to Quickly Add DigitalGlobe's Most Up-to-Date Satellite and Aerial Content Into Interactive Broadcast Graphics and Maps

Vizrt Ltd., a leading supplier of production tools to the digital media industry, announced today that the Company has signed an agreement with a Central European Production Company worth approximately USD280,000.

Vizrt Ltd., a leading supplier of production tools to the digital media industry, announced today it has entered into an agreement with Virgo Media Ltd. (Channel 9) in Bangladesh worth approximately USD 400,000.

Vizrt Ltd., a leading supplier of production tools to the digital media industry, announced today that a major central European production company has entered into a  USD 600,000 contract with Vizrt.

Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) has added a new social aspect to their weather broadcast

Strong Revenues, Strong Margin Growth

Vizrt Thailand assists those affected by the massive flooding in the region

Version 3.5 has been released as a major update to Vizrt’s rendering and compositing system, Viz Engine. 

Astana Media Center (AMC) has entered into a substantial and important multimillion-dollar contract with Vizrt.  

Liberovision’s latest 3D replay technology will make its diamond debut this October.

Johan Munkestam on improved features and channel branding made easy.

Thomas Nelson demonstrates the Viz NLE plug-in - a plug-in for editing suites such as Avid, Quantel, Final Cut, and Adobe. The plug-in can either be linked to Viz Trio, or an Viz Content Pilot Active X-plug-in. It works in the same way regardless for which editing suite you're working with. Viz NLE gives you the opportunity to re-use your existing Vizrt graphics when editing, instead or creating new ones. 

Trond Solem shows you how Viz Media Engine makes it easier to add video and graphics to your online story.

TJ Nuckolls demonstrates the journalist centric workflow of Viz Media Engine.

Leslie Kajomovitz takes us through the latest features in Vizrt's 3D real-time mapping system.

Thomas Molden presents Viz Secure, a monitoring system checking the health state of the infrastructure of a Viz environment.

Get the latest hints and tricks guiding you to a smarter workflow.

Ran Yakir demonstrates the latest ways of using maps to illustrate news and weather for broadcasting.       

Nir Goshen shows you how all the small things mean a lot when time is of essence.

Demonstration of how easy it is to get breaking news on air (IBC 2011).

As a supporting partner of content management for CNN, Vizrt has received the official IBC Innovation Award.

Stephan Würmlin Stadler takes us through the IBC setup.

Vizrt's Head of R&D on the new video and graphics features presented at IBC.

See the entire recorded session here.

Visit the Vizrt booth at IFRA for a demo: Booth #A425 in Vienna from October 10th.

Now everyone can animate 3D maps in seconds!

Create 3D game analysis in less than 60 seconds.

Record Revenues, Strong Margin Growth and a Record Order Backlog

While most big sports leagues are taking their summer break, LiberoVision continues its expansion into new markets and products. While new products will be revealed at IBC 2011, new markets have already been entered.

There are tons of great Vizrt showreels online. Here's a few of our personal favourites!

Catch up with what Vizrt did at this year's trade show in Singapore.

Watch this video for a quick briefing of what Vizrt can provide.

The Widget Framework provides the building blocks as the first news organization in the Netherlands implements paywall model.

"LiberoVision provides a unique, tactical perspective that helps us take the audience inside the glass and give them the best seat in the house.”
Sam Flood, Executive Producer, NBC Sports and VERSUS

Get a complete overview of all the possibilities of a combined Vizrt workflow.

At the Dhaka office, old customs are being replaced by a flat structure.

Sales Coordinator Maja Trajkovska is overwhelmed by the response at Screenmedia Expo.

Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that further to its announcement on November 19, 2010, the Company has completed its financial and legal due diligence and reached a definitive share purchase agreement with regards to the acquisition of all the issued and outstanding share capital of LiberoVision AG.

Find out how to make a big occasion truly interactive.

Visualize any type of weather with the latest technology from Vizrt and Perceptive Pixel. Vizrt's Ran Yakir shows you how any talent can and add brand new layers to a traditional weather presentation, distancing yourself from the traditional look and feel.

David Bohrman, Senior Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer for CNN Worldwide, will address the attendees of the upcoming Vizrt Days in Bergen, Norway.

Safdar Mustafa confirmed as keynote speaker at the upcoming conference in Bergen, Norway.

Art Director Jonathan Watson explains the latest in virtual studio environments.

Like us on Facebook and Twitter to discover new Vizrt levels.

Cooperation announced at the opening day of NAB 2011 in Las Vegas.

"With the help of our partners, we’re confident that the quality of this stereo 3D presentation will be unsurpassed.”

Vizrt has tested and certified AMD’s ATI FirePro™ V9800 professional graphics card. Vizrt will use ATI FirePro V9800 graphics cards to power its Viz Video Wall ER presentation at the 2011 NAB show from April 11-14 in Las Vegas.

Vizrt plans to reveal their initial efforts toward creating an integrated Vizrt/LiberoVision sports platform at the 2011 NAB show from April 11-14, 2011 in Las Vegas.

Cost-effective solutionfor broadcasters tracking multiple studio cameras to be presented at NAB 2011.

Come and watch Vizrt unfold at the world's biggest broadcast show.

Like us on Facebook and Twitter to discover new Vizrt levels.

Witness groundbreaking live 2D to 3D conversion with automatic graphics-adaptation in Las Vegas.

One of the Largest MAM Deals to Date.

Click here to in order to download the report to your desktop.

Vizrt is offering before/after satellite imagery of Japanese tsunami. Contact us of details.

Morten Holst (45) joins Vizrt’s marketing team as Online Product Strategy Manager on June 1. This is a newly-created position and reflects the increasing importance Vizrt attaches to growing its range of online products.

Vizrt recorded 23% growth in revenues Y-o-Y and 22% growth Q-o-Q. Recurring Operating income of MUSD 9.5 (9% margin) for  2010 FY and MUSD 4.2 (13% margin) in Q4 2010. Strong cash generation of MUSD 12.2 in 2010.

Vizrt's latest iPad app, targeted at news, sports and weather presenters in the studio, is now available for download on the App Store.

Chinese TV station HU Nan reached top of the ratings with brand new look.

Vizrt Ltd., a world-wide supplier of production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that the German newspaper printing and publishing house, BZV, has selected its Online Content Management System (CMS) to drive the news portal general-anzeiger-bonn.de.

Vizrt's product portfolio makes it easy to create captivating online stories.

Uses of virtual touch-screens are widespread by Vizrt customers throughout the world as part of a Viz Virtual Studio set. Virtual touch screens have been exhibited extensively by Vizrt at IBC, NAB and other events, as a concept for customers to make use of. Here is a description of why it was created at ITN and how virtual touchscreens have been used since, by Ian White, Head of Computer Graphics for ITN.

Vizrt Ltd. supply production tools to the digital media industry and announced today that the Swiss multinational company, Ringier, had chosen Vizrt's Online Content Management System (CMS) to run the Blick Internet News Portal (www.blick.ch), Switzerland’s most-visited news site.

Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, today announced it has closed a deal with a large existing broadcast customer in Northern Europe on the supply of Vizrt’s online product suite.

LiberoVision is pleased to have released Libero Offside, the latest addition to the Libero family. It satisfies the desire of broadcasters to have LiberoVision 3D analyses ready within seconds after the action.

Company chooses to increase interactivity in order to offer users "what they really want."

With the help of Vizrt products, the news graphics behind Nine Network in Australia are creating a buzz in the land down under.

From January 2011 the new Customer & Partner Portal is accessed from https://portal.vizrt.com or directly from the Vizrt website

Isaac Hersly talks about the new deal with FOX - and beyond.

For the 2010 coverage of the Commonwealth Games Channel 10 Australia gave their viewers a virtual tour of Delhi's sporting arenas, with 5 different virtual sets for their Athletics, Cycling, Netball, Gymnastics, and Swimming games news.

Vizrt announced today that it has entered into a terms sheet with Swiss company LiberoVision AG, a leader in the field of virtual sports enhancements.

For the first nine months of 2010, the Company recorded a 24% growth in revenues as compared to 2009, with BG the strongest contributor to revenue growth. Geographically, all regions contributed to the positive revenue development, led by the Americas, followed by double digit growth both in Europe and APAC. A positive shift in the product mix sold, including a higher portion of new licenses, led to improved margins and operational result.

The US midterm elections 2010 were held on November 2nd, and Vizrt was active behind the scenes, providing technology and graphics for major US networks, such as ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and Fox News.

Vizrt Ltd., a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, today announced an agreement with Informa plc, a UK based publishing company with over 2,500 subscription-based information services in their portfolio, including academic journals, real-time news and structured databases of commercial intelligence. Informa plc will use the new Viz App Framework to publish its leading magazines to portable devices such as iPads and Android smart phones.

Bergen, Norway, October 26, 2010 Vizrt Ltd. (Oslo Main List: VIZ)

Vizrt Ltd.,a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, today announced that it has formalized its strategic collaboration with Stergen Hi-Tech Ltd., as published at IBC 2010. Stergen is a developer of 2D to stereoscopic 3D video conversion software. Vizrt now offers tight integration between Stergen stereo 3D conversion software tailored to sports TV networks, sports leagues and webcasters and its own stereo 3D graphics portfolio.

At IBC 2010 Vizrt presented the brand new Viz Anchor for the iPad. Today we are proud to announce that Viz Anchor has won TVBEurope's prestigious "Best of IBC" award.

Vizrt announces a major $1.5 million (USD) sale to GMA Network Inc., the premiere broadcast television network in the Philippines, for its Viz Ardome media asset management software.   GMA Network broadcasts news, entertainment, and public affairs programming to over 12 million households across the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

In a first for Australian election coverage, the country’s Nine Network used virtual studio technology to enhance its 2010 Federal election coverage.

At this year’s IFRA in Hamburg (4-6th October), Angus Frame, Vice President Digital Media at The Globe and Mail, and Jon Arne Sæterås, Product Director at Mobiletech will talk about how Vizrt’s Viz Mobile Expansion (Mobiletech and Vizrt software) helped increase traffic on m.theglobeandmail.com by 1200%.

It is with great sadness that Vizrt announces that Svein Ove Strømmen, Chairman of the Board of Directors, died on September 23. The company extends its deepest condolences to his wife and family.

Radio Television Suisse (RTS), www.rts.ch, a business unit within the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR idée Suisse), Switzerland’s public broadcasting organization, has chosen Vizrt’s Escenic Content Engine 5 as the exclusive Content Management System (CMS) for its websites.  Vizrt’s Escenic Content Engine 5 is now being used to manage RTS’ huge and growing media library, including over two million legacy assets residing on a Dalet media asset management system.

At IBC 2010, Vizrt (Hall 2, Stand B10) will announce its partnership with Stergen, the maker of innovative 2D to stereoscopic 3D video conversion software. With this alliance, Vizrt will now offer tight integration between Stergen stereo 3D conversion software tailored to sports TV networks, sports leagues and webcasters and Vizrt’s own comprehensive stereo 3D graphics portfolio. The integration will be on display within Vizrt’s IBC 2010 booth.

At IBC2010, taking place at RAI Amsterdam from September 9-13, Vizrt (Hall 2, Stand B10), Vizrt will present the Viz Anchor App for the iPad. The application runs natively on Apple’s iPad and allows users to control newsroom playlists, including video and graphics directly from the handheld device.

Vizrt (Hall 2, Stand B10), www.vizrt.com, has announced a new partnership with Zurich-based LiberoVision, www.liberovision.com, (Hall 2, Stand C19), a leading global developer of 3D virtual sports enhancements. LiberoVision is integrating its dedicated Libero rendering engine software with Vizrt’s range of content production software. LiberoVision is well known within the sports broadcast community for its Emmy-nominated 3D technology for sports analysis and virtual replays. Customers include ESPN, NBC, BBC, ZDF, Sky Italia and Televisa.

At IBC2010, taking place at RAI Amsterdam from September 9-13, Vizrt (Hall 2, Stand B10), Vizrt will introduce Viz Weather 2.2 and Viz World 10.2. These latest versions of Viz Weather and Viz World enhance Vizrt’s extensive product line and strengthen its overall, integrated production workflow.

Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) and Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), two of the three major television networks in South Korea, set new benchmarks with their unprecedented coverage of the 2010 quadrennial, national Korean elections. While previous Korean national elections ended at midnight, this closely contested election ran well past midnight, causing both networks to stay live until 5 a.m.

At IBC this year, Vizrt (Hall 2, Stand B10) will demonstrate its evolution into a company with a thoroughly broad approach and an expanding customer base. With a reputation built on industry-leading graphic solutions for high-profile events, Vizrt now possesses a full range of real-time production tools geared for original programming, sports, elections, news, weather, finance, media asset management, character generation, and online publishing and delivery.

At this year's IBC, Vizrt will bring you more of everything. More of our latest product releases, more ways to publish to even more channels and platforms, and of course more new technologies, from stereoscopy to media asset management and online publishing.

Sept 10-14, RAI Amsterdam
The Vizrt stand is in Hall 2, Stand B10

At this year’s SIGGRAPH 2010 AMD had an eye catching wall of 40 displays, powered by 10 ATI FirePro™ V8800 graphics accelerators and Viz Video Wall ER™.

The audience at SIGGRAPH 2010 was blown away by the high resolution imagery and complex 3D animations that were displayed on the wall. Each display in the wall had a resolution of 1920x1200, giving a total resolution of 19200 x 4800 pixels or 92 Megapixels.

How can broadcasters and publishers benefit from each others competence? Morten Evensen, Presales Director with Vizrt, explains how Escenic Content Studio 5 helps to create a more effective presence on the web.

Vizrt, a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that they will show the new Viz Sports Online software package as part of its participation at this year’s IBC convention. Vizrt will be in Hall 2, Stand B10 at the IBC show.

Vizrt, a leading provider of content production tools for the digital media industry, announced today that the company has been chosen by IMPRESA Group, Portugal's largest media group, to supply an Online Suite for its Multimedia Strategy.

More than 200 visitors, 30 demos and presentations, and not to forget the idea exchange over a beer or two during the warm summer evening in Oslo.

Sports Online is a ready-made package for web and mobile sites tailor-made for sports news and events.

The presentations shown at Vizrt's Capital Market Day in June 2010 in Bergen are now available for download.

The latest product demo videos are now available online

Considered the world’s largest non-sport television production, the Eurovision Song Contest Finale is being broadcast live from the Telenor Arena, in Oslo, Norway during several dates in late May. Started in 1956, the contest has since grown to include two live semi-finals, which are held on the 25th and the 27th of May.

The five day Viz Artist advanced training event will take place in Brazil.

Is 3D stereoscopy here to stay? Rex Jenkins, Managing Director at Vizrt UK, has the answer. With first hand experience from stereoscopic projects for major networks around the world, Vizrt has the tools and the knowledge to bring stereoscopy to the masses.

Vizrt creates leading-edge content production tools for the digital media industry. Escenic’s multi platform publishing tools together with Vizrt’s award-winning 3D graphics, maps and integrated video workflow applications support publication to the web as well as to the latest mobile devices, such as Apple’s iPad and the Amazon Kindle. Vizrt’s product suite is used by the world’s leading publishing houses and broadcasters, including News International, The Telegraph, Schibsted, Axel Springer, Tele5, Lasexta, Cuatro, CNN+, ETB, TV3, Antena3, RTP, TVI, TVI24, SPORTTV, and FC Barcelona

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? We sure don't think so! Have a look at our Vegas diaries and see for yourself what you might have missed.

Vizrt’s rendering and compositing system, Viz Engine, now offers even more flexibility by supporting the Apple ProRes codec. With the integration of ProRes support in the newest Matrox DSX SDK, Vizrt can now offer compatibility with Final Cut Pro, in addition to the variety of already supported SD and HD formats and codecs. Vizrt will be demonstrating this new functionality at NAB2010 in booth SL5408.

Bergen, Norway, April 5, 2010 Vizrt Ltd. (Oslo Main List: VIZ)

Vizrt and ARC Science Simulations announce their first joint offering, which combines the Viz Engine real-time rendering system and ARC Science Simulations’ OmniGlobe digital spherical display to give global features a natural and realistic appearance.

Bergen, Norway, March 31, 2010 Vizrt Ltd. (Oslo Main List: VIZ)

If you are planning to attend NAB 2010 with stereoscopic 3DTV in your sights, then Vizrt’s booth is the place to be. Not only will there be powerful, proven stereo 3D technology on display, visitors will also get a glimpse of real-time, stereoscopic 3D HD imagery.

Bergen, Norway, March 31, 2010 Vizrt Ltd. (Oslo Main List: VIZ)

On March 14th TopVision, the Berlin-based OB-Van production company, presented the first live 3D HD Bundesliga football match in Germany.

Visit us at NAB 2010, join our public sessions, and gain some inside knowledge of the latest developments in the industry.

Bergen, Norway, March 25, 2010 Vizrt Ltd. (Oslo Main List: VIZ)

With over a million units sold and over 420,000 titles for free download, Amazon Kindle is rapidly catching on with consumers because it gives them immediate, convenient access to a world of content anywhere they want to receive it. Kindle puts the contents of a massive bookstore and newstand into your hands. This wireless “e-reader” has become a familiar sight in cafes, on trains, on the beach, everywhere people go..

March 22, 2010 - - Sky Sports today announced that it has chosen Vizrt as the core graphics platform for its 3DTV channel, due to launch in April.