In order to accompany its strong growth, Quividi is hiring an Back Office Engineer  to take part in the development, administration and support of the next generation of Quividi back-office solution (VidiCenter).

DUTIES

• Specify, develop and participate in the test of additional features (advanced administration tools, APIs, UI, automation scripts) to the existing Quividi back-office solution.
• Work with CTO and team to make architecture choices for the next generation platform.
• Ensure server is operational 365/24/7, plan and execute back-up and fail-over scenarios in a context of strong growth.
• Provide third-level technical support to support team for production incidents as needed.

PROFILE

• a min of 5 years of experience in software development experience in a fast-paced environment, working through all phases of the software development life cycle with experience developing hosted cloud solutions, ideally in a Analytics or Business Intelligence environment.
• Must have excellent knowledge of efficient database usage (MySQL & master/slave replication), Ubuntu, Python, dedicated web hosting and web services, web frameworks and orb.
• Knowledge of SOAP, lighttpd, Django, security/encryption/VPN, designing/implementing APIs, statistics is a plus.
• Strong analytical, organizational skills and intellectual inquisitiveness.

COMPENSATION

Excellent salary/stock-option compensation commensurate on experience.

ABOUT QUIVIDI

Based in Paris, France, Quividi provides a real-time video analytics solution that allows media owners, retailers and brands to finely count and qualify their audiences. Using the latest face and body detection techniques and running on standard hardware, the Quividi solution delivers exhaustive metrics including number of viewers, opportunities to see, attention time and demographics. The technology is respectful of visitor’s privacy as it never records any image and works in a completely anonymous fashion. Results are analyzed and rendered in customized online dashboards and electronic reports, which can be correlated with outside data.

Quividi pioneered the anonymous face detection in 2006. With over 200 digital signage networks and retail customers across 35 countries, and 2 billion faces counted to date, Quividi is the world leader in this category. “Measured by Quividi”™ is a commitment for a transparent, unbiased and accurate measurement of metrics that matter.

To apply, please send an email to info@quividi.com

In order to accompany its strong growth, Quividi is hiring an Application Engineer to help support its Pre-Sales efforts and work closely with R&D on the rollout of new Quividi products. The position is based in Paris, France can evolve into the management of all Quividi support worldwide.

DUTIES

Supports incoming leads and pre-sales operations

• opens and manages customer accounts in Quividi’s back-office
• generate field trial licenses, support pre-Sales in collaboration with appropriate Sales Account Managers
• provides assistance during on-site installation and training, as needed for strategic projects (possibly traveling abroad)
• takes part to exhibitions/conferences and sales visit
• co-writes some white papers and customer case studies

Supervises Day to Day Support operations:

• answers queries to support@quividi.com
• performs daily network monitoring of Quividi networks
• reports general activity for company in general dashboard
• reports strategic opportunity activity to geography Sales Manager
• performs license renewals as needs be
• analyze any technical issue/enhancement request and provide recommendations to R&D
• administers bug reports, enhancement request database, hardware tracking database, CRM,…
• coordinates suppliers for manufacturing/shipping/logistics of hardware products
• ensures internal technical processes are optimized and all activities traceable

Manages customer (Digital Signage Networks, Brands, Retailers…) audience reports

• creates and updates Excel reporting models
• supervises the generation of automated reports, provides comments/fixes and publishes reports
• works with tech and consulting teams to implement new methodologies and merge with 3rd party data

Takes part to technical development

• writes and implements automated test plans
• writes first level technical specification for customer requested features/enhancement
• help maintain documentation and training manuals
• enriches and qualifies image database used to improve algorithms
• helps partners (CMS publishers, integrators and ad agencies) integrating Quividi solutions into their systems by providing tech guidance , scripts, SDK…
• works on APIs based on experience and customer feedback
• recommends/prototypes and fully tests new hardware platforms (PC/cameras…), assembles early production runs

PROFILE

• preferably engineer, minimum 5 years experience, with Software Development and Technical Pre-Sales experience
• excellent knowledge of Windows, Linux (Ubuntu), Microsoft Excel, Python
• knowledge of C/C++, MySql, security, VPN, cryptography, digital video, signal processing is a plus
• motivated by a startup experience: “Hands on” and takes pride in getting things done
• very detail oriented, rigorous, self organized, efficient
• good command of business/technical English and ability to communicate clearly (internal/external reporting); good command of French is a plus
• open to travel internationally (Europe, USA, Asia Pacific) on a basis of 2 weeks per quarter
• possibility to telecommute from abroad/home office after initial training and work period in Paris office

COMPENSATION

Excellent Salary/stock-option compensation commensurate on experience.

ABOUT QUIVIDI

Based in Paris, France, Quividi provides a real-time video analytics solution that allows media owners, retailers and brands to finely count and qualify their audiences. Using the latest face and body detection techniques and running on standard hardware, the Quividi solution delivers exhaustive metrics including number of viewers, opportunities to see, attention time and demographics. The technology is respectful of visitor’s privacy as it never records any image and works in a completely anonymous fashion. Results are analyzed and rendered in customized online dashboards and electronic reports, which can be correlated with outside data.

Quividi pioneered the anonymous face detection in 2006. With over 200 digital signage networks and retail customers across 35 countries, and 2 billion faces counted to date, Quividi is the world leader in this category. “Measured by Quividi”™ is a commitment for a transparent, unbiased and accurate measurement of metrics that matter.

To apply, please send an email to info@quividi.com

Partnership with Quividi adds to ‘most accountable outdoor measurement system ever’

Amscreen, Europe’s largest digital media network owner, has today announced a partnership with Quividi, the leading audience measurement company that is set to revolutionise the Out of Home and digital advertising industries.

The innovative collaboration will see Amscreen, whose network of digital screens currently has an audience of over 50 million weekly via 6000+ screens, use Quividi’s face tracking technology across their broad portfolio of advertising-supported networks to further solidify their position as the most insight-led outdoor advertising channel.

Amscreen are the first media owner to adopt this technology on a large scale in Europe and will be working with Quividi over the coming months to rollout this solution across their networks: this will provide advertisers with an unparalleled level of detail on the actual audience delivered during their campaign. Amscreen has been extensively trialing this technology over the past 12 months. While Quividi is known as a technology leader in audience measurement, with the largest number of deployments in the field, Amscreen verified that Quividi offered the best performance and accuracy, as well as the key metrics that matter. This early trial phase has already helped optimize both screen position and content to drive maximum engagement. The latest data shows 94% shoppers view the on screen content while in store which has been shown to be highest average conversion rate in the sector.

With Amscreen already in possession of extensive audience data (based on site specific transactions), including site by site and hour by hour audience insight and up to the minute play-out reporting, the addition of Quividi makes their offering even more accountable and flexible. The breakdown of data by gender, age, date, time and volume enables brands to pinpoint a target audience and talk directly to them.

Amscreen CEO Simon Sugar said, “It is time for a step-change in the Outdoor world and it is great to see that, together with Quividi’s technology, we are bringing the industry into the 21st century.
We are all aware that the media industry as a whole is moving more and more towards real-time planning and audience measurement and away from traditional modeled audience metrics hence we are now placing significant investment and resource on delivering this kind of depth of insight. Through access to extensive site and audience data from our network partners and our own detailed research studies, we already have actual audience data by screen by hour. Our investment in this technology will support and enrich this audience data as we continue to raise the bar in terms of accountability, compliance and transparency.
Ultimately, our aim is to optimise our advertiser’s campaigns, reduce wastage and in-turn help to shed the image that Outdoor cannot be ultimately measurable and transparent. We’re now single-mindedly focused on helping the industry deliver the type of insight that only online has previously been able to achieve.”

Olivier Duizabo, CEO at Quividi said, “Amscreen is a leader in its field and a forward-thinking innovator. Their decision to standardize audience measurement on their networks with our face detection technology is a great move for the ecosystem: digital out-of-home and digital place-based media will continue to grow faster as advertisers gain better understanding of their true return on investment. We are delighted to be working with them to bring this technology into the mass market. With “Measured by Quividi”™ tracking technology now present in their screens, they are able to offer a new level of measurement and trust, compared to some of the more traditional techniques used by others. ”

–ENDS–
For further information, please contact Sophie Kay (Amscreen press office) at Frank PR – 020 7693 6999 / amscreen@frankpr.it

Notes to editors
About Amscreen:

Taking Outdoor Online Through Insight and Flexible Content Delivery

Amscreen is a worldwide digital outdoor screen network representing the UK’s largest single portfolio with more than 4000+ screens. Amscreen focusses on reaching audiences in high dwell, close proximity environments helping to deliver more than 30m adults every week. These advertising estates including forecourts (BP, Esso, Shell etc), national convenience stores (Londis, Spar etc) as well as WHSmith and GP surgeries throughout the UK.

Measurability and flexibility are at the heart of the Amscreen business helping to deliver an ad solution that now more closely reflects a convergence of ‘Outdoor/Online’.

This array of audience measurements and insights are obtained from EPOS , location, demographic and footfall data by the hour and by individual sites as well as the Quividi based face tracking data. These insights are then leveraged to deliver an array of creative solutions through Amscreen unique content delivery systems allowing day-part targeting, site specific (GEO), audience specific, live feeds, reactive advertising as well as automated localised content and much more.

Amscreen’s recent rapid growth into the likes of Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria reflects the rapid scalability of the technology, with complete screen networks being delivered and working in a matter of weeks.

To find out about the full extent of our network across the globe, visit http://www.amscreen.eu/en/live-network-map

For more information on Amscreen, visit www.amscreen.co.uk

About Quividi:

Quividi provides a real-time video analytics solution that helps media owners, retailers and brands finely count and qualify their audiences. Using the latest face and body detection technique and running on standard hardware, the Quividi solution delivers exhaustive metrics including number of viewers, opportunities to see, attention time and demographics The technology is respectful of visitor’s privacy as it never records any image and works in a completely anonymous fashion. Results are available in customized online dashboards and electronic reports, which can be correlated with outside data.

Based in Paris, France, Quividi pioneered the anonymous face detection in 2006. With over 150 digital signage networks across 35 countries, and 2 billion faces counted to date, Quividi is the world leader in this category. “Measured by Quividi”™ is a commitment for a transparent, unbiased and accurate measurement of metrics that matter.

For more information on Quividi, visit www.quividi.com

www.amscreen.co.uk

A test was performed by an independent research company in the USA to evaluate the accuracy of Quividi’s classification algorithms.

Viewers saw a short video clip and at the end of that clip the system ‘read’ them and showed a male video clip to males and a female video clip to females.

The test was very successful and overall we saw a 93% “instant” accuracy rate (i.e. the ability to tell for each single person his or her precise gender) after scanning 856 people.

Here are the highlights:

• Total People Tested: 856
• Percentage of Test Sample that is Male: 72.55%
• Percentage of Test Sample that is Female: 27.45%

• Total Male Accuracy: 95.97%
• Total Males Tested: 621
• Total Males Accurately Read: 596
• Total Males Misread: 25

• Total Females Accuracy: 86.8%
• Total Females Tested: 235*
• Total Females Accurately Read: 204
• Total Females Misread: 31

*52 of the females were wearing baseball caps and our accuracy of this group was only 42%. If we look at the accuracy of the software without any women wearing hats, the accuracy rate increases to over 96%

All in all, the combined “Instant” Accuracy (Males + Females) reached 93.4%

Furthermore, the system altogether output 596 + 31 = 627 Males and 204 + 25 = 229 Females, ie a compounded accuracy of over 97%.

While the Quividi solution is mainly used for audience measurement and retail metrics in out-of-home places, there are some customers making innovative uses of our solution that is worth knowing about. Even more so when such research project received the prestigious Grand Prix at The 2012 Media Research Group (MRG) Awards, a few weeks ago.

Congrats then to Cog Research and Thinkbox who designed and implemented the ‘Screen Life: the view from the sofa’ research project, whose point was to understand the engagement of members of households used to watching TV while interacting with their smartphone or tablet – a growing tendacy also called multi-screening.

The 20 voluntary households which took part to the research were hosting several cameras installed in their loundge:

• several cameras were recording how people behaved in their living room and helped researchers visually identify what people were doing and provide typical footage for the final report;
• one camera was feeding a local computer running Quividi’s VidiReports, which detected when people in the room were looking towards the TV set and computed precise attention time (as a reminder the Quividi solution never records any video – see the privacy statement).

The study demonstrated that people in the sample were more likely to stay in the room or not change the channel during the ad break if they were multi-screening. As Neil Mortensen, Thinkbox’s Research and Planning Director, puts it: “Multi-screening is a huge benefit and opportunity for TV advertisers (…). It encourages people to watch more TV and more ad breaks and does not adversely affect ad recognition, and viewers now have the ability to act on what they see immediately”.

Sources:

• MRG page on the awards
• The research main findings
• The presentation by Thinkbox (passage on Quividi starting from 33:00 on the video)
• Acuity blog (Quividi’s reseller)

Paris, Sept 17th 2012 - Quividi is inaugurating a new marketing campaign aimed at over 3,500 professionals in the field of marketing at retail and digital signage. Each addressee of the emailing is invited to visit a page explaining the benefits of the Quividi solution or of VidiCube for its business.

In parallel to this initiative, Quividi is inaugurating its channel on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/quividiam) with a series of videos explaining how its solutions work and how they’ve been put into use.

Paris – Aug 24th 2012. In a post called “Sorry @IntelAIMSuite, @Quividi Are The Market Leaders”, the most influencial digital signage online magazine asserts that in spite of a lesser share of voice than its behemoth competitor, Quividi is the most widely used solution in measuring the audience of digital signage networks.

Editor-in-Chief Adrian Cotterill, makes the point that out of the 44 CEOs from the leading Digital Signage industry he has interviewed, half a dozen are using the Quividi solution to measure their audience.

“Quividi has indeed measured over 180 digital signage networks across 36 countries since its inception” says Olivier Duizabo, Quividi’s CEO. “We’ve been able to experience many different situations and requirements which have helped us improve our solution for the benefit of our customers. We are confident that more and more major networks will be deploying our solution in the next 12 months”, he adds.

Quividi is one of the companies mentioned in the article “I spy, with my big eye“, published April 28th, 2012.

“As for businesses, Quividi, a French marketer, can measure the age and gender of passers-by who linger at an advert; advertisers vary their offerings based on who is looking” reports the article.

It is undobtedly flattering that Quividi is recognized as the pioneer and leader of automatic audience measurement; but let us remind in passing that, in spite of the article’s slightly Orwellian title, our solution does not record any image and doesn’t perform any form of recognition, so that customer privacy is always perfectly safeguarded. In other words: no spying around here!

Some applications of the Quividi solution will be on display at the Marketing Point de Vente POPAI tradeshow in Paris, Porte de Versailles, Mar 27-29th, 2012. Come visit the booth of our partners:

• DigiPerformances (F92)
• Caméléon (D38)

Quividi is celebrating its 170th end-customer now using its audience and traffic measurement solution. Over the last 4 years since it started selling its solution, Quividi has seen a growing interest from companies from 35 countries, who have trusted Quividi to measure over 2,500 locations. This makes it the leading supplier in the automated audience measurement category.

Quividi relies on a dense network of partners across the world, which have gained a rich experience with its solution and help deploy it and make the most of it. Manufacturers, integrators, media research companies and consultants appreciate the versatility of the solution which runs with most operating systems, PC hardware and types of cameras, as well as the rich supervision and datamining capabilities that it offers”.

“Our customers and partners have created more than 1,000 audience dashboards in our VidiCenter back-office and got us to store 1.2 billion viewing events in our datacenter on their behalf”, says Olivier Duizabo, Quividi’s CEO. “This is a nice proof of how appreciated and robust our solution is.”

With an initial focus on audience measurement for digital signage, Quividi has convinced some of the largest digital signage operators to rely on its solution. From Amscreen in the UK and Europe, to PilotTV across Asia and Equidia throught France, large screen networks get regular reports on the audience performance of their media and use them to justify their advertising rates. “Viewer measurement is the focal point of all digital signage developers. Without providing reliable ROI information, we can’t convince advertisers and channel distributors to enter the digital signage industry”, says Mac Ma, PilotTV’s CEO. Others operators, in particular those who are not open to third party advertising, may just measure a few screens across their network to get some insight and improve their visual impact, and enjoy the Quividi’s depth of data and adapted licensing plans.

As it launched its VidiGates product in 2010, Quividi started selling more and more to consumer good manufacturers, interested in understanding shopper behavior in retail and mixing both viewer and traffic analytics. Brands such as Coca Cola, P&G, Imperial Tobacco and Citroën have used the solution across several countries and have their instore material and research suppliers now integrate video sensors and the Quividi solution in a range of projects.

“2012 is looking very promising”, continues Duizabo. “We’re now seeing our historical digital signage customers deploy the solution on a large number of screens and many new operators coming to it, now that audience metrics is becoming standardized for this new media. We’re also now witnessing a high interest from retailers and service companies such as banks which all look for more accountability metrics. And with the introduction of our new VidiCube product line and the update to our historical VidiReports software, we anticipate touching new markets and making our solution even more mainstream”.