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FADEL, brand compliance, rights management, and royalty billing software provider, has worked with some of the biggest names in media, entertainment, publishing, fashion, beauty, high-tech and advertising. With the acquisition of IDS, FADEL combines the power of rights management and content compliance with sophisticated content services, AI-powered visual search and image and video recognition. By automating talent and content rights management across videos, photos, ads, music, products and brands, and streamlining the processing of licensing royalties, FADEL’s cloud-based solutions have empowered businesses to significantly maximize revenues and increase process efficiencies.

“Rights Management” Knowledge Experts for over 19 Years

Global customers. Global brands. Global presence.

Delivering a Trusted Platform to some of the Largest Companies Cross-Industry

Our History

  • 2003
    FADEL was formed
    In July 2003, FADEL was established by Tarek Fadel to design and develop enterprise-scale applications.
  • 2005
    Enters into the Rights Management space
    FADEL signs with Marvel Entertainment to build their global rights and royalty management system.
  • 2007 - 2011
    Takes IPM Suite to market
    FADEL launches its IP Management platform for rights and royalties – IPM Suite – taking on enterprise customers in the Media and Publishing industries including O’Reilly Media, Harvard Business Publishing, United Media and Chronicle Books. Servicing a cross-industry need for managing the licensing lifecycle, IPM Suite expands into the High Tech industry, signing with F5 Networks, the prominent high-tech manufacturer of networking products.
  • 2013 - 2014
    Receives recognition
    In 2013, FADEL wins the prestigious Oracle Excellence award for Rights and Royalty solutions for Media and Entertainment. In 2014, FADEL was awarded the Deal of the Year Award for Technology, Media, and Telecommunications in the Americas.
  • 2014 - 2015
    Sees significant growth
    FADEL signs with the largest media company in the world to replace and modernize their legacy royalty accounting system. The company also signs with Pearson, the largest educational publisher in the world, to replace over 30 Rights & Royalty Management systems across 7 regions around the world, and support their innovative Content Planning system. FADEL also establishes a global presence, opening offices in London and Los Angeles.
  • 2016
    Launches Cloud-based Solutions
    FADEL launches Rights Cloud, a new cloud-based Digital Rights Management solution for global advertisers. FADEL also takes the proven IPM Suite solution to the cloud for ease of adoption by mid-market licensees.
  • 2017
    Build partner ecosystem for Rights Cloud
    Rights Cloud is a highly extensible framework with its open Web services API for clearance requests. Market leading DAM vendors such as OpenText, MediaBeacon, Adobe, Aprimo, Box, Adstream, Extensis and Cognizant deliver connectors into the DRM to provide additional value to their clients.
  • 2017 - 2018
    FADEL sees significant customer adoption
    FADEL signs with Tervis and Cengage for IPM Suite in the cloud, and takes two of the largest IPM Suite clients live including Pearson for its Content Planning system with Rights & Permissioning. FADEL also signs a global reseller agreement for Rights Cloud with OpenText and adds three major brands across Fashion & Beauty and Life Sciences including CHANEL, Merck and L’Oreal.
  • 2019 - 2020
    Expands Further Across Europe
    FADEL establishes a wholly-owned subsidiary in Paris, France, signing with French media giants - Hachette Livre and Média-Participations. FADEL also makes further advancements in the Publishing and Gaming sectors with IPM Suite and introduces Content Tracking & Compliance as part of the Rights Cloud family.
  • 2021
    Acquires IDS
    FADEL announces the acquisition of Image Data Systems (IDS), broadening FADEL's cloud offerings with PictureDesk, a sophisticated AI-powered image and video search and recognition platform used by leading publishers and brands.
  • 2022
    Launches Brand Vision, Achieves SOC Compliance
    FADEL adds Brand Vision, a brand compliance solution that allows companies to track and monitor assets across the content lifecycle, to its cloud offerings. FADEL also meets requirements for both company controls over financial reporting and security-related service commitments for its cloud solutions, achieving SOC1 -Type 2 and SOC2 - Type 2 Compliance.
  • 2023
    Completes IPO on the London Stock Exchange
    FADEL completes its IPO on the London Stock Exchange #AIM growth market.

Innovators of Brand Compliance, Rights Management and Royalty Billing Software

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“Our special interest editions consist of 100% repurposed content that we aggregate from past publications. Generally, a full-size food photo is about $100 and one of our recipe books has 100 pages with one image per page, so that amounts to $10,000 per issue saved just by repurposing our own content, and we publish more than 100 special interest issues per year. That’s over a million dollars in savings.” 

Jacqui LaMorte

“Industry leaders were insisting this couldn’t be done. That systems weren’t mature enough to handle the image volumes we needed to via the web, and that a multi-faceted hosted solution would come apart at the seams. Fortunately, we found a partner with the technology and flexibility we needed to succeed.”

Dave Thompson

“Managing digital rights is absolutely essential for any organization that leases or rents assets to use in their marketing collateral. A tool, like Rights Cloud, that allows you to keep track of all the agreements associated with every image or video in your DAM is absolutely industry best practice.”

Margie Foster

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