Vizrt signs USD 3.5 million broadcast graphic and MAM deal with a broadcaster in North America

Bergen, Norway, December 20, 2013, Vizrt Ltd. (Oslo Main List: VIZ).

Vizrt Ltd. today announced a deal worth USD 3.5 million for broadcast graphics, media asset management and online products with a broadcaster in North America. The broadcaster is a new customer and the deal is for the delivery of a fully integrated graphics workflow solution, replacing all of the broadcaster’s current graphics production tools.

“Vizrt has become the standard for broadcasters in North America,” stated Martin Burkhalter, Vizrt CEO. “This deal is a testament to the quality of our product offering, as well as the deep local capabilities we can mobilize on behalf of customers through our Vizrt America office. This is a very sizeable deal and is a good showcase for our fully integrated workflow and graphics solutions.”

The deal includes Viz One, Vizrt’s media asset management (MAM) tool, acting as a gateway to the broadcaster’s in-house digital asset management (DAM) system. This allows access to videos and stills from within Vizrt’s graphics tools.

In the newsroom, the journalists use templates to create graphics and browse videos within their native newsroom control application using Viz Content Pilot. Maps are easily created using Viz World. The journalists are also able to moderate social media content using the Vizrt Social TV solution. The social media content is sent to Viz Ticker3D for live displaying of Tweets and Facebook posts and comments. Additionally in the newsroom, editors access videos using Viz One, edit content and add graphics using templates from the Viz NLE plugin, part of Viz Trio.

A playlist of all the graphics created by the newsroom is sent to Viz Trio in the control room. Viz Trio is Vizrt’s character generator (CG) and allows an operator to trigger graphics and video live during a newscast.

The studio is being enhanced with Viz Virtual Studio, creating full virtual sets and adding immersive graphics to physical sets. A video wall will be controlled by Viz Video Wall, part of Viz Engine. Interactive capabilities will be displayed using multitouch screens with a specialized suite of plugins added to the Viz Engine software.

A large number of Viz Engines, Vizrt’s real-time compositing engine, are added throughout the broadcaster’s infrastructure to render graphics and video from each of Vizrt’s broadcast graphics tools.

The Vizrt Online Suite component Escenic Content Engine will allow the broadcaster to publish all video content online and to mobile devices with graphics adapted to each format.

The broadcaster is protecting their Vizrt investment with Viz Secure. Engineering staff will monitor the health of every Vizrt system, as well as be alerted via their mobile devices when a failure is possible, with the system offering instructions to prevent this from occurring.

Investor and media contact:

Martin Burkhalter / CEO / 41 22 365 75 01 / MBurkhalter@vizrt.com

Tomer Wald / CFO / 47 5351 8040 / TWald@vizrt.com

Frank Schwarz / Schwarz Financial Communication / 49 611 1745 398 11 schwarz@schwarzfinancial.com

About Vizrt:

Vizrt provides real-time 3D graphics and asset management tools for the broadcast industry - from award-winning animations & maps to online publishing tools. Vizrt's products are used by the world's leading broadcasters and publishing houses, including: CNN, CBS, Fox, the BBC, BSkyB,  Al Jazeera, ITN, ZDF, Star TV, Network 18, TV Today, CCTV, NHK, The Globe and Mail, Times Online, The Telegraph, and Welt Online. Furthermore, many world-class production houses and corporate institutions such as the Stock Exchanges in New York and London use Vizrt systems.

Vizrt is a public company traded on the Oslo Main List: VIZ, ISIN: IL0010838154. For further information please refer to www.vizrt.com

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