PixID Image Monitoring Service - Idée Inc.

Identify where images appear in print and online

Idée PixID Image Monitoring Service

A technological breakthrough in image identification and tracking - for print publications and the Internet.

Idée PixID is a comprehensive, automated image monitoring service that uses advanced image identification algorithms to identify where your images are being used in print publications and the Internet.

What is the PixID process? (click to view)

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How PixID Image Monitoring Works

PixID does not use watermarks so there is no additional data to add to your images and nothing to be removed to prevent detection. Our sophisticated image identification algorithms can identify images even when they have been drastically modified. View a short video to learn more about how PixID works.

View examples of PixID in action

Who should use PixID?

Any firm who wants to know where their images are appearing in print publications and on the Internet.

In particular editorial, celebrity and entertainment firms, news wire services and any firm who is licensing their images and needs to accurately bill or report image usage; or simply any firm who needs to know.

Benefits of Tracking with PixID

Accurately identify every image usage
Recover license revenues from unaccounted image use
Track authorized and exclusive image use
Uncover unauthorized image use
Verify image license compliance
Automate the billing process
Introduce accountability to your distribution relationships
Streamline royalty disbursements to your photographers
Determine ROI and highlight opportunities for increased sales in new markets
Back up content purchasing decisions with solid, market–relevant data

Who uses PixID?

"Idée’s image monitoring service for print and web is an outstanding technological breakthrough. Idée’s service enables us to keep track of all our images. We are pleased to be working with Idée, the pioneer in the image monitoring industry."

Michael Scotto
Director Photo Business Development
Agence France-Presse (AFP)

“Masterfile has been manually monitoring print media to protect against infringements of our rights–managed image collection since the days of the Gutenberg press [...] Today our people spend less time turning magazine pages and more time turning Idée reports into money.”