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Digimarc Appoints Accomplished B2B SaaS Legal Executive George Karamanos as Chief Legal Officer

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), the pioneer and global leader in digital watermarking technologies, today announced that former ZipHQ Chief Legal Officer and seasoned deal strategy and operations leader George Karamanos has joined the company as Chief Legal Officer (CLO).

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  • Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), the pioneer and global leader in digital watermarking technologies, today announced that former ZipHQ Chief Legal Officer and seasoned deal strategy and operations leader George Karamanos has joined the company as Chief Legal Officer (CLO).
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240404600773/en/
    George Karamanos, former ZipHQ Chief Legal Officer and seasoned deal strategy and operations leader has joined Digimarc as Chief Legal Officer (CLO).
  • The company is revolutionizing the digital transformation journey for companies across industries and sectors, worldwide,” said George Karamanos, Digimarc’s Chief Legal Officer.
  • Meyer served as Digimarc's Chief Legal Officer through the company’s integration of EVRYTHNG, enabling the smooth consolidation of its operations and transformation of Digimarc to a software-as-a-service business.

Digimarc Powers New Consumer Engagement Capabilities and Insights

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), the pioneer and global leader in digital watermarking technologies, today announced Digimarc Engage , a product for direct-to-consumer digital communication, is transforming the way businesses, brands, and consumers interact through new and incredibly advanced consumer engagement capabilities.

Key Points: 
  • Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), the pioneer and global leader in digital watermarking technologies, today announced Digimarc Engage , a product for direct-to-consumer digital communication, is transforming the way businesses, brands, and consumers interact through new and incredibly advanced consumer engagement capabilities.
  • Digimarc Engage is the industry’s first consumer engagement offering to deliver contextual and differentiated experiences across both physical items and digital media – powering integrated marketing campaigns with richer consumer experiences while revealing never-before-available omnichannel data insights to inform smarter campaigns.
  • “Our latest version of Digimarc Engage provides a seamless experience between physical and digital domains that is not possible with any other consumer engagement offering.
  • Building on these revolutionary consumer engagement capabilities, Digimarc also helps companies uncover valuable data analytics about campaign performance by filtering data about consumer engagements by a range of factors, such as country or destination URL.

Milena Alberti-Perez Joins Allurion Board of Directors as Audit Committee Chair

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Allurion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ALUR), a company dedicated to ending obesity, today announced the appointment of its newest board member and Audit Committee Chair, Milena Alberti-Perez, effective as of March 11, 2024.

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  • Allurion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ALUR), a company dedicated to ending obesity, today announced the appointment of its newest board member and Audit Committee Chair, Milena Alberti-Perez, effective as of March 11, 2024.
  • "Milena joins the Allurion board during an exciting time in the company’s history and is a proven and dynamic leader, with deep experience as an operator and board member," said Dr. Shantanu Gaur, Allurion Founder and CEO.
  • She currently serves as Chair of the Audit Committee at Digimarc Corporation (Nasdaq: DMRC) and Chair of the Finance Committee and member of the Audit Committee at Pitney Bowes (NASDAQ: PBI)
    “I am thrilled to join Allurion at a pivotal stage of its journey as a public company,” said Ms. Alberti-Perez.
  • “I am looking forward to working with my fellow board members and the company’s management team as Allurion embarks on setting a new standard for a best-in-class weight loss experience.”
    Ms. Alberti-Perez holds a B.A.

Digimarc Announces Share Sale to Altai Capital Led Investor Group

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Altai Capital, Digimarc’s second largest shareholder, participated in the offering and acted as the registered investment advisor to certain of the other investors in the offering.

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  • Altai Capital, Digimarc’s second largest shareholder, participated in the offering and acted as the registered investment advisor to certain of the other investors in the offering.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240228979729/en/
    “We are excited for the long-term investment opportunity made available to us and these new investors,” said Altai Capital founder, Rishi Bajaj.
  • “Altai Capital has been an investor in Digimarc since 2021 shortly after the Company began its transformation, and we have steadily increased our investment since then.
  • “Accepting capital from Altai and other value-added investors was an easy decision to make.

Digimarc Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2023 Financial Results

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.

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  • Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC) reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.
  • Total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023 increased to $9.3 million compared to $7.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2022.
  • Gross profit margin for the fourth quarter of 2023 increased to 63% compared to 53% for the fourth quarter of 2022.
  • Operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2023 decreased to $16.8 million compared to $17.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2022.

Digimarc Accelerates the Global Fight Against Plastic Pollution

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

Digimarc accelerates the global fight against plastic pollution. Digimarc Recycle is now widely available and easily accessible to unlock plastic circularity worldwide -- available for license by qualified partners for less than $1 per capita per year. (Graphic: Business Wire)

Key Points: 
  • Digimarc Recycle represents a revolution in the sortation and recycling of plastic waste with the power to measurably advance the fight against plastic pollution, and this proven technology is now available for license by qualified partners for less than $1 per capita per year.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240222238789/en/
    Digimarc accelerates the global fight against plastic pollution.
  • Digimarc Recycle is now widely available and easily accessible to unlock plastic circularity worldwide -- available for license by qualified partners for less than $1 per capita per year.
  • “Digital watermarking is a powerful, proven, and incredibly affordable solution to the plastic pollution crisis, and it is available today.

Digimarc Collaborates with GS1 to Advance GS1 Digital Link

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Digimarc pioneered the open standard to provide critical functionality and to help advance industry adoption of the GS1 Digital Link standard .

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  • Digimarc pioneered the open standard to provide critical functionality and to help advance industry adoption of the GS1 Digital Link standard .
  • With the GS1-Conformant Resolver standard, a GS1 Digital Link can be redirected to multiple sources of information – creating a universal way for applications to request specific information about a product.
  • "Global standards including GS1 Digital Link are helping industries enhance and accelerate digital transformation and speak the same language across the full lifecycle of products.”
    The GS1 Digital Link standard upgrades traditional barcodes, currently scanned over 10 billion times per day, so every product can connect to the web, be smartphone-interactive, and transact with point-of-sale systems.
  • “It has been an honor to collaborate with GS1 and key industry players on this standard,” said Dom Guinard, Digimarc’s VP of Innovation, who co-chaired the GS1 Digital Link standard working group.

Digimarc Sets Fourth Quarter 2023 Conference Call for Wednesday, February 28

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Digimarc Corporation (Nasdaq: DMRC), the pioneer and global leader in digital watermarking, will hold a conference call on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, at 5 p.m. Eastern time (2 p.m. Pacific time) to discuss results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2023.

Key Points: 
  • Digimarc Corporation (Nasdaq: DMRC), the pioneer and global leader in digital watermarking, will hold a conference call on Wednesday, February 28, 2024, at 5 p.m. Eastern time (2 p.m. Pacific time) to discuss results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2023.
  • Digimarc CEO Riley McCormack, CFO Charles Beck, and CLO Joel Meyer will host the call, and provide an update on strategic priorities, quarterly highlights, and financial results followed by a question-and-answer forum.
  • The company will issue financial results in a press release before the call, including a link to prepared remarks highlighting fourth quarter achievements and current strategic priorities.
  • For those who wish to call in via telephone, please dial the number below at least five minutes before the scheduled start time.

Digimarc Joins New NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

Established by the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S.

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  • Established by the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S.
  • Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) will bring together AI creators and users, academics, government and industry researchers, and civil society organizations to meet this mission.
  • “Digimarc commends NIST on the formation of the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium, and we look forward to collaborating with a prestigious group of technology experts to promote the development of trustworthy AI and its responsible use,” said Digimarc Chief Technology Officer Tony Rodriguez .
  • That’s precisely what the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium is set up to help us do,” said Secretary Raimondo.

Digimarc Releases Next-Generation Digital Watermarks

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Digimarc's next-generation digital watermarks represent a step change in state-of-the-art digital watermarking, which is critical to the identification and authentication of physical and digital items.

Key Points: 
  • Digimarc's next-generation digital watermarks represent a step change in state-of-the-art digital watermarking, which is critical to the identification and authentication of physical and digital items.
  • “Our latest digital watermarks are the most sophisticated we have developed and represent a step change in state-of-the-art digital watermarking.”
    Digimarc digital watermarks leverage enhanced encryption techniques requiring an authorized private key to detect and decode, strengthening data security by ensuring information is protected in transit to and from the Digimarc Illuminate platform (cloud or edge server).
  • Importantly, these improvements do not impact Digimarc digital watermarks’ unique applicability to both physical and digital assets, delivering the same capabilities whether used on products and packaging or digital images and multimedia.
  • Digimarc digital watermarks also continue to deliver incomparable reliability and accuracy under harsh or unfavorable conditions (including high-speed motion, occlusion, and damaged or manipulated items), ensuring the robustness and redundancy of Digimarc’s digital watermarks remain unmatched by other data carriers.