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General news for the media production trade, alongside the Picdar announcements kept from the original record.

News for the media production trade — picture desks, libraries, archives and the rights business around them — alongside the Picdar announcements we keep from the original record.

Archive items carry the date they were issued under, and are reproduced unchanged. They are a useful check on how the industry talked about digital asset management while it was still being argued over.



From the 2005 site

News

HOW OUTDOOR ADVENTURERS SPEND A RAINY EVENING: MOVIES, GAMES AND ONLINE CASINOS

Date: 08/12/2025

Rain happens. It is not the end of your trip or your mood. A rainy evening can be warm, calm, and fun. You can rest your legs, dry your gear, and share time with your team.

MEDIA MOGUL WORKFLOW PROVIDES PLATFORM FOR GROWTH IN MAGAZINE PUBLISHING

Date: 25/04/2006

Andrew Savage, Production Manager at Mortons says, “Within only a few months from implementation we experienced a quantum leap in time and cost savings in production management, happier editorial teams and a ten-fold growth in syndication.”

BUTLINS RESPONDS FASTER TO MARKET WITH PICDAR BRAND AND RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SOLUTION MEDIA ZONE

Date: 8/12/2005

Butlins’ Product Manager, Jo-Anne Woodstock, explains: “Media Zone allows us to look after copyright management in a fraction of the time”.

IRISH NEWS SWITCHES TO PICDAR

Date: 5/12/2005

Irish News now able to think about the future, not worry about the present. Liam McMullen, Resources and Systems Manager at Irish News, “What we’ve bought is a turnkey solution, and it’s excellent.”

?PICDAR IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF ANYTHING ELSE OUT THERE?

Date: 01/11/2005

Outgoing Chief Operations and Technology Director of Associated Newspapers, Allan Marshall, gave an exclusive interview to Gary Cullum of Production Journal, reflecting on his 18 years with the publisher latterly as Operations and Technology Director. Talking of the Media Mogul Picture Desk and Content Management systems at Associated Newspapers, Allan Marshall says: “This comes from Picdar and is a brilliant bit of code. It’s light years ahead of anything else which is out there.”

See the full article at the Production Journal website

PICDAR PUTS G8 IN THE PICTURE

Date: 05/07/2005

Picdar hosts accredited Media Pictures Website for G8 Summit at Gleneagles

EVEN SMARTER TECHNOLOGY FROM PICDAR

Date: 22/05/2005

Picdar announces Version 2 of its flagship Media Mogul jSuite enterprise solution and new workflow products at Newstec 2005

20 years of innovation makes Picdar the best

Date: 11/10/2004

Picdar announces new strategy, new products and new confidence after 20 years at the vanguard of innovation in Digital Asset Management solutions.

Make your website more sticky with the new PicUp application from Picdar

Date: 11/10/2004

PicUp from Picdar is a new Media Mogul 4ej suite application for online image uploading.

Picdar's award winning Media Mogul re-engineered for the future

Date: 11/10/2004

We'd all like to know what the future holds, but Picdar has already mapped it out with its new Media Mogul 4ej enterprise solution for Digital Asset Management and Content Workflow applications.

PHOTOSHOP GIVEN EVEN MORE POWER WITH PICDAR'S NEW MEDIA MOGUL PLUG-IN

Date: 14/05/2004

From the touch-line of premier league football games, to the front-line of combat, photographers and picture editors can now enjoy the power of saving and indexing images to Media Mogul from any location with Picdar's new Photoshop plug-in. The same benefits are enjoyed by location photographers uploading images to centralised systems, immediately saving time and keeping track of often hard won and valuable images.

CAMERA PRESS PREVIEWS NEW SERVICE AT PICTURE BUYERS FAIR

Date: 11/05/2004

Web enhanced service built on Picdar's Agency Edition of Media Mogul. Picture Buyers Fair, 13th to 14th May 2004 - Stand number 22

PICDAR'S INDESIGN PLUG-IN NOW FASTER, SAFER AND EASIER TO USE

Date: 29/03/2004

Picdar announced today the release of its Media Mogul InDesign plug-in Version 2.0. This powerful software integrates Media Mogul's workflow management tools with InDesign, streamlining the publishing process and significantly reducing the number of steps to produce a complete page layout.

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News — illustration from the Picdar site as published in 2005

Archive index

A census of this site: how much sits in each section, how much of it is reproduced 2005 archive and how much was written for the relaunch.

SectionAllArchiveNew
Picture desk835
Asset management1055
Rights & licensing945
Archives844
Workflow1183
Case studies13130
News11110
Total704822