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AcquiredLondon, GB · Founded 1996 · 54 employees on LinkedIn · 7 known investors
Imagen builds a video management platform designed to help clients make video content measurable, manageable, and profitable. The company operates with offices in Cambridge, London, and New York.
Also known as Imagen · Imagen Ltd. · Reuters Imagen
Founders & leadership
Image was founded in 1996 by Anthony Blake and Paul McConkey.
Investors · 7
Also in the syndicate · 1
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountpre-series AAug 2026Source ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Reuters Imagen (Imagen Ltd.) provides a cloud-native media asset management platform used to manage, enrich and distribute large-scale, mission-critical video files. The platform covers the full content lifecycle: ingest via live stream feeds and manual or automated uploads, asset enrichment, transcoding, storage and distribution, together with granular access controls, a custom-branded user interface and platform analytics. Product areas highlighted by the company include media archive management, broadcast operations, rights management, AI, integrations, live workflows, distribution, archive, insights, access control and custom UI.
The company positions the platform around three customer segments: sport (safeguarding rights and delivering content to broadcasters quickly), media (commercialising programme libraries securely) and enterprise (making video a reusable asset). It also operates Screenocean, a content licensing business established in 2009 whose library includes clips from the Reuters News Archive, Channel 4, Warner Bros Television Productions UK, Clips & Footage and Cover Images, offering more than 122 years of licensable clips and 20 million images for TV, film, education and advertising use.
Since mid-2023 Imagen has been part of Thomson Reuters, operating within the Reuters News Division, with the product remaining focused on sports media management and distribution.
Founding story
The company was established in 1996 by Anthony Blake and Paul McConkey, initially serving the UK Ministry of Defence, whose digital media search it has powered from the 1990s onward.
Business model
Imagen sells a customisable, cloud-based media management platform to businesses, sports organisations and media companies, delivered as a SaaS product since 2013 and sold through a demo-led enterprise sales motion. It also runs Screenocean, a content licensing business that makes archive clips and stills available to license.
Revenue derives from the SaaS media management platform sold to content owners, alongside content licensing through Screenocean, which supplies premium archive clips and images for TV, film, education and advertising.
Traction
The platform is used by organisations including the Premier League, BBC Studios, Major League Baseball, IndyCar, the International Tennis Federation, Banijay, Pac-12, World Table Tennis and Auburn University. Screenocean's library spans more than 122 years of licensable clips and 20 million images. Reuters Imagen has been named official supplier of the Esports World Cup's global media hub.
Latest developments
Recent company communications cover the addition of NBA video content to Reuters' sports offering for customers, Reuters Imagen's appointment as official supplier of the Esports World Cup's global media hub, live workflow features such as Imagen Live Connect, and a joint webinar with Blackbird on real-time sports event workflows.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Imagen positions itself as a video management platform for the sports, media and enterprise segments, citing use by sports federations, media companies and enterprise organisations, and noting that video represents 60% of global data. Its customer list includes the Premier League, Auburn University, Banijay, BBC Studios, IndyCar, the International Tennis Federation, Major League Baseball, Pac-12 and World Table Tennis.
Technology
A cloud-native platform supporting live stream ingest, manual and automated uploads, asset enrichment, transcoding, storage and distribution, with AI capabilities, integrations, granular access controls, custom-branded interfaces and platform analytics. Infrastructure and storage partners include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Wasabi, and a published system specification is available.
Go-to-market
Imagen markets through a book-a-demo model with in-house experts walking prospects through the platform, supported by webinars, reports and industry event appearances (for example NAB and Inter BEE), and by technology partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Wasabi and Diversified.
Sports federations and rights holders, media companies and broadcasters, and enterprise organisations with large video libraries; historical customers include public-sector and archive institutions such as the Ministry of Defence, the British Library and the Imperial War Museum.
Geography
The company is a UK-based business (Imagen Ltd.) using British English and sterling-denominated funding, with customers and commercial coverage extending to the United States, including a CRO for the Americas, and participation at international industry events such as NAB and Inter BEE.
History
Imagen was established in 1996 by Anthony Blake and Paul McConkey, with the Ministry of Defence as its first customer. In 2002 it digitised British Pathé's newsreel archives, making 90,000 individual files and 12,000 stills publicly available, and between 2004 and 2010 it worked on projects including the British Library, IMG Media and the Imperial War Museum. Screenocean, its content licensing business, was established in 2009, and in 2013 the product became available as a SaaS platform for the first time. In January 2019 the company completed a £6.5 million Series B round led by Downing Ventures, with participation from Guinness Asset Management Ltd and existing investor Cambridge Innovation Capital. In mid-2023 Imagen was acquired by Thomson Reuters and became part of the Reuters News Division.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 3
by search overlap
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Timeline · 7
launches, deals, and filingsReuters expanded its sports offering with the addition of NBA video content for customers.
Reuters Imagen was named official supplier of the Esports World Cup's global media hub.
In mid-2023 Imagen was acquired by Thomson Reuters and began operating as part of the Reuters News Division, with the product continuing as Reuters Imagen focused on sports media management and distribution.
Imagen completed a £6.5 million Series B funding round led by Downing Ventures, with capital from Guinness Asset Management Ltd and existing investor Cambridge Innovation Capital.
The Imagen product was made available as a SaaS platform for the first time in 2013.
Imagen established Screenocean, its content licensing business, whose library includes clips from the Reuters News Archive, Channel 4, Warner Bros Television Productions UK, Clips & Footage and Cover Images.
Imagen digitised British Pathé's newsreel archives, making 90,000 individual files and 12,000 stills available to the public.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Imageimagen.io · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Image do?
- Reuters Imagen is a cloud-native media asset management platform for sports, media and enterprise video libraries.
- Who founded Image?
- Image was founded by Anthony Blake, Paul McConkey in 1996.
- Who are Image's investors?
- Image's investors include Cambridge Innovation Capital, Guinness Ventures, Cadenza, Haystack, Menlo Ventures, Script Capital.
- Where is Image headquartered?
- Image is headquartered in London, GB.