DG FastChannel, Inc. provides digital technology services that enable the electronic delivery of advertisements, syndicated programs, and video news releases to traditional broadcasters, online publishers, and other media outlets. The company offers advertising distribution services, such as electronic and physical distribution of broadcast advertising content to broadcast stations; and Unicast Advertising Platform, an online advertising campaign management and deployment product that permits publishers, advertisers, and their agencies to manage the process of deploying online advertising campaigns. It also provides Digital Media Gateway that enables content creators and distributors to ingest, digitize, transport, store, and prepare digital video media assets. In addition, the company offers online creative research services through SourceEcreative, an online database of content and credits of the United States television commercials for the advertising and TV commercial production industry. Further, it provides professional services for creating content and implementing visualization solutions; and media production and duplication services, including storage of client masters or storyboards, editing of materials, tagging content, dubbing, video duplication, and copying of media onto CD, DVD, or tape. Additionally, the company offers media asset management services enabling automatic archiving of trafficked spots, online search, send-for-review and review-and-approval capabilities, automated digital storyboarding, and streaming previews; and broadcast business intelligence products. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 3 digital networks, which link approximately 5000 advertisers, advertising agencies, and content owners with 23000 radio, television, cable, network, and print publishing destinations; and 5000 online publishers electronically in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.
