fingerprinting based content identification solutions . the company was formed in october 2008 as a spin off of royal philips electronics and was backed by amsterdam based vc firm prime ventures . in july 2009 civolution acquired the software and technology solutions business from thomson formerly nextamp after which the company created a portfolio of innovative solutions that ultimately formed its three business units that were each divested separately in december 2014 wpp s kantar media acquired civolution s audio watermarking business supporting technology solutions for audience measurement and syncnow its second screen synchronization product . in july 2015 us data science and advertising technology company 4c insights acquired civolution s teletrax business owning the world s largest television broadcast monitoring networks supporting applications for tv analytics and tv synchronized digital advertising . and finally in july 2016 kudelski group acquired civolution s market leading nexguard forensic watermarking business supporting content tracking solutions for pre release digital cinema pay tv and streaming . during its 8 years of existence the company has won over a dozen industry awards for its various product innovations the last one being the most prestigious one of all in january 2016 civolution received a technology & engineering emmy award from the national academy of television arts & sciences . who we serve civolution proudly powered by wordpress