Digimarc Corporation · NASDAQ:DMRC
Digimarc — Liolios Group Gateway Conference 2012
18 slides from Digimarc's conference presentation, September 2012
Slide 1: Company Overview
Company Overview Liolios Group Gateway Conference September 2012 ©2012 Digimarc Corporation
Slide 2: Safe Harbor Statement
Safe Harbor Statement Before we proceed, please note that during the course of this presentation we will be making certain forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to many assumptions, risks, uncertainties and changes in circumstances. Any assumptions we offer about future performanc
Slide 3: Overview
Overview • Company Heritage • Signal processing innovator • Pioneer in digital watermarking • Vision and Focus • Teaching computers to see, hear, and understand • Deter counterfeiting Government Security • Improve measurement and management of media • Pave way for pervasive, intuitive computing with
Slide 4: Our Vision and Mission
Our Vision and Mission • Help computers see, hear, understand, and respond to media Mobility • Create digital identities for media objects that are imperceptible to humans but not computers Mobility Mobility • Pave the way for a new pervasive, intuitive Sensors + Inference computing paradigm that gr
Slide 5: Business Model Focuses on Building Long Term Value
Business Model Focuses on Building Long Term Value • Our core Technologies have amazingly broad range of possible uses • Foster large-scale adoption of solutions based on our Technology 1 • Effectively monetize patent portfolio 3 • Provide development services to help partners grow 2 • Build more IP
Slide 6: ROI Delivered Primarily via Patent Licensing
ROI Delivered Primarily via Patent Licensing Digimarc US Patents • Key target markets • National security 600 • Media and entertainment 500 • Mobile device search 450 • Pervasive, intuitive computing 400 • Extend portfolio depth • Basic technologies 350 • Applications 300 • Systems • Processes 250 •
Slide 7: Financial Model
Financial Model • Digimarc’s “product” is innovation captured in patents with fixed 20 year useful lives • Licensing model provides financial and operational leverage • Partners put up risk capital; Digimarc shares in successes but not failures • Balance profitable growth with building long term ass
Slide 8: Delivering Value to Stakeholders
Delivering Value to Stakeholders • Strong revenue and earnings growth • Enterprise value has increased over 400% in last three and one-half years • $310mm cash distributed to shareholders in 2008 • $26mm cash for share repurchase over last three years • First quarterly cash dividend 4/12: $.11/share
Slide 9: Government Security
Government Security • Counterfeit Deterrence • Globally deployed system to deter counterfeiting of money • Customer is consortium of leading central banks • ~$10 million annual revenues — Slide 9 — ©2012 Digimarc Corporation
Slide 10: Media Measurement and Management
Media Measurement and Management • Audience measurement • TV (Nielsen) • Radio (Arbitron) • Copyright protection for movies • Digital Cinema (Civolution) • Blu-Ray (Verance) • Video On Demand (multiple vendors) • Media identification key to new media industry models — Slide 10 — ©2012 Digimarc Corpo
Slide 11: Digimarc Discover Delivers the Seeing/Hearing Smartphone
Digimarc® Discover Delivers the Seeing/Hearing Smartphone Magazines into Interactive Direct Mail Music Recognition Web Browsers and Catalogs Newspapers into Media Enhanced Packaging Synchronized TV Viewing Web Browsers — Slide 11 — ©2012 Digimarc Corporation
Slide 12: Smartphones: Our Digital "Eyes" and "Ears"
Smartphones: Our Digital “Eyes” and “Ears” Accelerometer & Gyroscope GPS Responds to motion Knows where you are Proximity Sensor Integrated Camera Senses closeness Provides the means to “see” media and objects in its surroundings Microphone Network Access Used to “hear” providing audio High speed co
Slide 13: Print-to-Mobile is Taking Off
Print-to-Mobile is Taking Off — Slide 13 — ©2012 Digimarc Corporation
Slide 14: Principal Sources of Revenue -- 2011
Principal Sources of Revenue -- 2011 • Services (34%) • Deter counterfeiting of currency (central banks) • Engineering services (Nielsen) • License and Subscription (66%) • General patent licensing (Intellectual Ventures) • Audience measurement (Nielsen) • Digital Cinema (Civolution) • Blu-Ray (Vera
Slide 15: Competition
Competition • Application-specific functional and economic alternatives • Digimarc Advantages • Unique proprietary technologies • Extensive high quality IP • Loyal employees with special skills and talents • Market experience • Network of business partners • Established brand • Strong balance sheet
Slide 16: Growth Drivers and Strategy
Growth Drivers and Strategy • Key Drivers • Exponential growth in media content • Transformation of media industries • Evolution of mobile phone into seeing/hearing/understanding computing device • Astonishing growth in smartphone adoption • Improved licensing of patents via IV • Strategy • Facilita
Slide 17: Investment Highlights
Investment Highlights • Company Heritage • Signal processing innovator • Pioneer in digital watermarking • Vision and Focus • Teaching computers to see, hear, and understand • Deter counterfeiting Government Security • Improve measurement and management of media • Pave way for pervasive, intuitive c
Slide 18: August 2008 • Bruce Davis
August 2008 • Bruce Davis ©2010 Digimarc Corporation | Company Confidential