NAB 2019 Reflections: Jessica Dahan on Imagen's strategy for future growth By Fergal Ringrose, Editorial Director, Europe
Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 15:44
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In January SaaS video management platform business Imagen announced an 88% year on year revenue increase driven by clients including Formula One, English Premier League, World Tennis Association, BP, Reuters, BBC and IMG. It also announced a new £6.5m investment round from Downing Ventures, Cambridge Innovation Capital and Guinness Asset Management following a growth trajectory that has seen the company establish a foothold in the video management sector and become a key tool for sports, media and enterprise businesses looking to manage their expanding video and content libraries.
At NAB SVG Europe sat down in the booth with Imagen head of growth Jessica Dahan to look at the path ahead for the company. Imagen recently landed some new investment, and as part of that the strategy is really to grow the company drastically over the next few months, she said.
Jessica Dahan, Imagen, head of growth
We have two lines of strategy: one is to try to develop the enterprise market, because we are very strong in the sports sector but trying to develop our offer to incorporate the enterprise use case. The other line of strategy is that we want to develop our activity in the US, so we have been recruiting people. We currently have two people permanently based here, and we are recruiting another three or four in the next few weeks, with a view to really expanding our operations here in the US.
Imagen is a video management and distribution platform that allows our customers to manage intuitively their video content to make sure they unlock potential in that content, whether they are sports federations, sports rights holders, media production companies or media distribution companies, said Dahan. The platform has been around for some time, but it has changed a lot, especially over the past two years since we've had our new CEO Charlie Horrell.
As a company, because we are growing really fast, we are working around our branding and messaging to make sure that everything is really aligned and clear. Because I think in the past the platform has developed itself based on the needs of our customers, to the point where it was it was a bit harder to figure out, how do we position ourselves and how do we talk about what we do?'
We are working really hard at the moment to clarify that. So the messaging specifically for this show is that Imagen allows you to intuitively manage and distribute your content in a fast, efficient and secure way.
And as a company we are expanding our operations in the US as I have mentioned but also in other markets. Ultimately, probably within the next 18 to 24 months, the aim is to be able to start having people based in other markets such as France, Germany and Malaysia, areas where we already have customers. We currently run the company from the UK, but the plan is to expand so that we have people based in other markets and sell the platform in foreign languages as well.
So, no pressure! Lots of big ambitions. But we feel we are recruiting the right people to achieve those ambitions, said Dahan.
And one issue you have is that the nature of the Imagen platform means that it is often hidden and invisible' where it is embedded with a client such as the English Premier League.
Exactly. And one of the beauties of the platform is that you can customise the front end so that it looks like a Premier League portal for the end user. You don't know it is Imagen, unless you're in the know. And some of our customers use the platform purely internally, as an intranet if you will, to manage their content. Some use it as an external-facing interface.
IMG Replay for instance is actually an Imagen platform, but from the front end it looks like [it's from] IMG and Premier League and shared with broadcasters and IMG's customers. It could potentially even be a B-B-C platform, for example if one of our customers wanted to create a Netflix' if you want, for their own business that's completely do-able.
With the platform you can decide to give access only to specific people. If you take Premier League they can decide to share video with one broadcaster but not with another, or they can decide to share it for 24 hours only. And also you have all the analytics that come along with it, so you know exactly who has been watching your content, how long, and how many times they have gone back to it.
So from a business strategy perspective it allows our clients to also figure out which content is the most popular and which is the most in-demand, and develop their operations around it as well, said Dahan.
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NAB 2019 Reflections: Jessica Dahan on Imagen's strategy for future growth By Fergal Ringrose, Editorial Director, Europe 
