Watermarked
THE SOLUTION
Watermarked is a deep tech solution for imperceptible, resilient watermarking across images, audio, and video. In an era of rampant piracy, insider leaks, and deepfake-driven deception, traditional DRM and metadata-based approaches are easily bypassed. Watermarked instead protects the content itself by embedding machine-readable identifiers directly into the media at the byte level.
The result is a persistent proof of ownership, traceability of leaks, and tamper-evident authenticity that survives compression, re-encoding, cropping, flipping, and other common manipulations.
MAIN COMPONENTS
Identifier Embedding
Each media asset is embedded with a 36-bit identifier imperceptible to human senses but easily extractable by the system. Embedding occurs directly in pixels for images and video, and simultaneously in the frequency and waveform domains for audio. This ensures durability across codecs, platforms, and editing workflows.
Robustness & Fragile Watermarking
Watermarked employs two complementary approaches. Robust watermarking survives compression, scaling, or format changes, while fragile watermarking flags even the slightest alteration, making tamper evidence visible in forensics.
Leak Source Identification
Unique identifiers can be tied to a user, device, or distribution channel, enabling precise attribution in case of leaks or unauthorized sharing.
Blind Detection & Lightweight Models
Extraction requires no prior knowledge of embedding coordinates, making detection efficient and scalable. Lightweight models allow real-time scanning of massive libraries at fixed speed, independent of resolution.
Crawler & Monitoring
An integrated content crawler scans the internet, social media, and streaming platforms to detect watermarked assets, notifying rights holders of unauthorized use and enabling rapid response.
USE CASES
Watermarked secures pre-release films, music, and games by embedding identifiers tied to specific reviewers or channels, tracing leaks before mass piracy occurs. Corporate and government agencies apply recipient-specific marks to sensitive documents, presentations, or classified recordings to control insider leaks.
Hardware integration in cameras, drones, and bodycams provides hardware-level provenance for journalism and digital evidence. Fragile watermarking enhances deepfake detection by validating genuine content while flagging manipulations. For brands and creators, Watermarked ensures ownership proof and copyright protection across digital media, stock platforms, NFTs, and licensing environments.
TECHNICAL ADVANTAGES
Watermarked is powered by deep steganography using convolutional neural networks, adapting watermarking to each content type for maximum invisibility and resilience. Images maintain identifiers after Instagram compression with 96% retention. Audio achieves survival rates up to 100% on major platforms like YouTube and SoundCloud. Video markers persist after re-encoding and are reinforced by dual embedding in both audio and visual channels.
Processing speed is fixed and extremely efficient: 0.5 seconds per image, 30 fps video watermarking on a 2-core CPU, and near-constant time audio embedding, making the solution enterprise-ready at scale.
Identifiers remain intact across PNG, JPEG, HEIC, BMP, MP3, WAV, FLAC, MP4 and more, with extensibility to additional codecs. Error-correcting encoding further enhances resilience against distortions, noise, and editing operations.
BUSINESS IMPACT
By embedding resilience directly into the content, Watermarked reduces piracy losses, protects intellectual property, strengthens trust with partners, and future-proofs assets against evolving threats. Its technical foundation makes it cost-efficient to run at enterprise scale, with constant-time watermarking and detection workflows across millions of assets.
Watermarked is not just DRM — it is a new standard for media authenticity, ownership proof, and leak tracing, designed to secure the future of digital content.