Company
Founded in March 2003, Digital Bazaar was created to provide technology platforms that enable digital content to be bought and sold via the Internet.
Our patent-pending technology platform enables individuals and businesses to compete with larger digital content sales services.
The company was founded by Robert Butterfield (Board Member), Gray Carper (Board Member), Mike Johnson (Chief Operations Officer), David Longley (Chief Technology Officer), James Norton (Board Member), and Manu Sporny (CEO/President). The team brings 52 years of management experience as well as 33 years of start-up experience culminating in the execution of the latest strategies in technological research, development and product commercialization.
The Digital Bazaar product line is based on our patent-pending Secure File Distribution Network. The network is a hybrid peer-to-peer network that merges the best-of-breed client-server and peer-to-peer technologies. The system enables distribution of high quality digital media while ensuring that content creators, sellers and buyers are able to get what they want quickly, efficiently and easily. Payment is automatically verified, collected and delivered according to the rules outlined by the content owners and distributors.
The core technology was proven in early 2004 and a proof-of-concept network was launched in July 2004. Our first content distribution agreement for 2,700 albums was signed in March of 2005, followed with the official launch of the software and network later that month.
The content on the network has since grown from 2,700 albums to over 40,000 albums and over 31,000 individual artists located in over 65 countries.
The product offering has grown from a single software application running on Microsoft Windows to a product suite supporting everything from casual web surfers to small businesses selling digital content to large multi-national corporations. Today, the software system is available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
Digital Bazaar continues to grow its content and product offerings. For the latest information, please refer to our blog or product overviews.