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Profuz Digital CEO Ivanka Vassileva reports 2025 Success of Increased Growth, Leading Innovation in AI Media Workflows for 2026

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Profuz Digital reveals Intensive Technological Enhancements across the Product Line

For immediate release – 14 January 2026, Sofia, Bulgaria –  “Embracing a new year, we can reflect positively on the accomplishments achieved at Profuz Digital over the course of 2025. Profuz Digital’s range of solutions include media asset management system Profuz LAPIS and SubtitleNEXT,  that manage subtitles, dubbing and localization services for media content including coordination of teams of translators, subtitlers, AV professionals, creative freelancers, while providing users with powerful toolsets in a secure workspace environment.

Central to Profuz Digital’s ongoing success is our commitment to rolling technical development and innovation, ensuring customers are kept up to date with the very latest features. After maintaining steady growth, significant developments were made across our product line –  SubtitleNEXT and the Profuz LAPIS digital media management system.

Firmly situated at the forefront of innovation in AI media workflows, Profuz LAPIS was further enhanced with powerful new features and an expanding customer base, resulting in regular updates and new functionalities that benefit both existing and future clientele.

Profuz LAPIS is a sophisticated platform that orchestrates AI-powered tasks. LAPIS intelligently choreographs an organisation’s entire workflow by distributing and coordinating tasks across multiple AI processing engines.

Expanding on our live subtitling offering, key technological milestones over the course of 2025 included the release of five new versions of the SubtitleNEXT software platform, tailored to meet new market dynamics that customers face. SubtitleNEXT is now abundant with advanced capabilities for automatic transcription, translation processing, and other brand new features and vital tools, specifically designed to give broadcasters and subtitlers a competitive edge to deliver efficient and accurate results.

SubtitleNEXT has a modular design and is fully equipped with a creative suite of toolsets bringing flexibility to subtitling. Our continuous focus is on how our software can adapt to each customer’s unique way of working. By investing in SubtitleNEXT, organisations place themselves in the best position to capitalise on next-generation technologies to stay ahead and ensure messaging remains accessible and inclusive.

The organisations selecting our technology is indicative of the respect we have earned. We make a concerted effort to hear concerns and deliver accordingly.

Our customer-base continues to expand within the UK and EMEA regions, across multiple markets in the broadcast, production, localization, education and corporate sectors. Throughout the year, we carried out several important and confidential projects with big brand European broadcasters with ventures that involved adding new channels and more. In addition, we worked on vital projects for localization teams and global broadcasters, attracting new clients in the process, such as Proximus Media House in Belgium. PMH delivers bilingual content for Proximus’ platforms and channels, including On Demand and Live Sports broadcasting productions such as the UEFA Champions League football in Belgium.

We maintain unwavering and well-established relationships with existing clients around the globe, by providing regular updates and dedicated support to loyal customers such as Canal+ France, Council of Europe, Bulgarian National Radio, Bulgarian National Television, Leinhäuser Language Services, EMG, KU Leuven University, Ghent University, IT Pros Subtitling, Wilco Media, Polsat, Doli Media Studio, HD Media, and many others.

We are proud of our wide partner network and secured new partnerships with various NGOs. The Atlantic Club of Bulgaria chose Profuz Digital as a Special Technical Partnerlast year and relies on our live subtitling services usingSubtitleNEXT for high-profile events, including conferences with NATO.

We continue to support the industry with technology they can rely on, helping broadcasters remain at the top of their game, by  providing flexible, efficient, and dependable platforms.The Profuz Digital team continues to showcase our innovations at various events, as we understand the importance of visibility and connecting with industry professionals and building new relationships.

We exhibited at IBC2025 in Amsterdam with even more visitors than previous years, including new deals closed already after the show. The demand for product demonstrations was a positive indication of how our technology is valued and drawing interest.

We have realised a more than 30% year-to-year turnover increase in the last 3 years. Our expectation for the year ahead is to further widen our partnership network and customer-base within the EMEA region and further monetise investments made from our intensive product development last year.

Real innovation involves listening and understanding goals. It entails envisaging requirements and providing the appropriate technology. Our aim as a team at Profuz LAPIS is to consistently refine the capabilities in our software platformsand stay true to our user-focused approach in everything we do.

We are getting off to a good start already and  look forward to  delivering yet another successful year in 2026, by supporting existing and new customers with cutting-edge technology that outshines their competitors and brings them creativity and success.”

Ivanka Vassileva, CEO, Profuz Digital

Council of Europe fully embraces the Profuz LAPIS Digital Asset Media platform, boosting Workflows for real time Data and vast Archive Management

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For immediate release – 26 June 2023, Strasbourg, France – Profuz Digital is pleased to announce that the Council of Europe has invested in the Profuz LAPIS digital asset management system. Profuz LAPIS is used as an advanced dynamic content engine that enhances collaboration within the Council of Europe, including archiving and interactive database support which plays an integral role in their business processes. The Council of Europe upholds human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe, and is renowned for pioneering new standards, which have progressed to become global benchmarks.

Profuz LAPIS is a powerful “one-stop-shop” for managing digital assets, allowing users to organise and find what is required in an instant with an intuitive filter structure that is tailored to an organisation’s exact needs. Access and usage permissions provide peace of mind that users only see assets relevant to them, eliminating the risk of unapproved content being published. Significant time is saved by the system automatically updating and reassessing assets by seamlessly integrating content data into the content engine, avoiding burdensome manual processes.

The Council of Europe already relies on Profuz LAPIS to conduct a wide variety of tasks such as content ingest, storage, and advanced media library searches, using its AI capabilities to further accelerate creative workflows and automate experience delivery at scale. With Profuz LAPIS working within the Cloud, it has enabled the Council of Europe to streamline its workflows and operations, allowing for numerous speaker session recordings in several languages, at various resolutions.

Profuz LAPIS allows unlimited connectivity with APIs and Amazon. Other features in Profuz LAPIS includes its project management capabilities and meta data functionality. The system creates groups and profiles and has a powerful interactive toolset, with future-proof capabilities and vast archive capacity which is the future of data resourcing.

Meetings are held daily at the Council of Europe and the system allows for public access of information, which includes parliamentary sessions where MP’s speeches are recorded. Video file content is often required to be shared promptly across social media networks, allowing journalists and the media to gain immediate access to download, edit, cut down and report on the material. Council staff members and external bodies are able to find, access and interact with all creative assets within their workflows, ensuring all information passes through the correct channels. Teams are able to minimise time spent switching between systems by running everything through Profuz LAPIS. It is possible to quickly find and share assets directly within their own dashboards.

Alain Mielle, (the Head of Innovation at the Council of Europe) states, “We have been very impressed with the functionalities and performance of Profuz LAPIS as our Media Asset Management platform. In our opinion it is the “Rolls Royce” platform of this industry sector, offering a competitive and attractive price tag. It is not a run of the mill digital asset AV management system, as it offers so much more in terms of functionality and features, and we have seen significant productivity gains and positive user feedback.

The self-service portals in Profuz LAPIS saves time and resources as it reduces the number of people having to be involved in its operation. It is used 24/7 and users can take advantage of Profuz LAPIS’ powerful search engine function that finds historical content quickly.

The system is easily accessible, and its search capabilities are exemplary, enabling universities and research groups to access the Council of Europe’s information. We envisage exploiting its AI capabilities in the future – for example permitting journalists and broadcasters to be able to look up past speeches made by world presidents. These functions will continue to evolve in LAPIS to help us provide valuable accessible archived material.”

Profuz Digital’s French technology partner SAV, which is a high-end audiovisual solutions specialist, introduced the Council of Europe to the Profuz LAPIS platform and played a key role in the collaboration. SAV was the initial link between the customer and the supplier by presenting the LAPIS solution to the Council of Europe and helped define the customer’s requirements. They carried out the follow-up of the project and participated in the training sessions. Today, SAV continues to provide level 1 support for the LAPIS solution.

After meeting with Profuz Digital’s CTO and developer Kaman Ferdinandov for a demonstration of the Profuz LAPIS system last summer, Alain reveals, “We were impressed with Kamen’s vision and expertise – he is ahead of the game, including AI and understands the market. We were won over by the team’s professional approach. They are reliable, super sharp, responsive and friendly too.”

In addition, the Council of Europe will evaluate the use of SubtitleNEXT – Profuz Digital’s subtitling technology – for the transcribing of audio-visual content later this year. Although French and English are the two official languages used by the two statutory bodies at the Council – the Committee of Ministers (PACE), and the Congress of the Council of Europe, German and Italian are also used for some of their work.

On the topic of Artificial Intelligence, Alain shares his thoughts, “I believe AI is not designed to replace humans but to work side by side and to enhance our work processes but there is a real need for regulation. We are seeing the tip of the iceberg of the capabilities of AI, and it will have a huge impact on the way we work in the future. As stated on our website recently, AI presents advantages but also risks to our civilisation. However, it is the role of the Council of Europe to ensure that human rights, democracy and the rule of law are protected and promoted in the digital environment. The Council’s Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) is already on the case and has been mandated by the Committee of Ministers to elaborate a framework Convention on the development, design and application of artificial intelligence, based on the Council of Europe’s standards which is conducive to innovation. Companies such as Profuz Digital are well placed to tackle the challenges ahead as we all face the coming AI revolution in this new digital age.”

Profuz Digital’s CTO Kamen Ferdinandov notes, “We are honoured to support the Council of Europe using Profuz LAPIS as its core system. With an ever-increasing volume of content, there is a growing demand to deliver more content consistently to more users within their organisation with greater agility for better content experiences. All features within Profuz LAPIS have been customised to enable journalists and IT teams at the Council of Europe to collaborate immediately. The assets are cloud-native, and automatically scale to meet traffic and processing demands, ensuring both the application and experiences remain responsive to change. We look forward to enjoying a long-term partnership.”

Ivanka Vassileva, CEO of Profuz Digital confirms, “We are so proud that the Council of Europe has invested in Profuz LAPIS and placed it on the global map as a world-leading system. It’s excellent to see it play a central role with flexible features that will continue to evolve, according to growing requirements, in order to keep ahead of advancing technologies. We look forward to working with the Council of Europe for many years to come.”

Other major bodies within The Council of Europe include the European Court of Human Rights, and the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM).

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About the Council of Europe
Find out more here https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal

About Profuz Digital
Profuz Digital develops and provides performance-leading solutions for customisable engineering system integration to empower content providers, broadcast, production, and post-production professionals to operate efficiently at the forefront of an ever-evolving digital environment. Profuz Digital’s primary focus is flexibility, futureproof customer-driven product innovation, fast deployment, along with committed teamwork.

Creators of the advanced real-time and offline captioning and subtitling software platform SubtitleNEXT and Profuz Digital’s digital asset workflow management platforms, Profuz LAPIS, designed to efficiently centralise processes and data all under one roof. Proven technology already adopted by the likes of Canal PLUS, Jornal do Centro, Council of Europe, Bulgarian National Radio and many other organisations.

The NEXT-TT system combines SubtitleNEXT’s functionalities with Profuz LAPIS into an all-in-one powerful hybrid technology-base that provides media professionals with a versatile backbone for enhanced localization services. NEXT-TT can be customised to produce targeted management and efficient workflows. It manages subtitles, dubbing and localization services for media content including the coordination of teams of translators, subtitlers, AV professionals, creative freelancers, while providing users with powerful toolsets in a secure workspace environment.

Many organisations have already adopted Profuz Digital’s technology including Titles-On, EMG, Tarjama in the UAE, IT Pros Italy, Digitalmeister GmbH, Leinhäuser Language Services GmbH, Polsat, Kino Polska, Max Live Media Access, Biovisjon, Doli Media Studio, Cube Cinema Technologies, Tring TV, Bulgarian National Television, Canal Plus Myanmar, AMC, HD Media, KU Leuven University of Leuven, Belgium, University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Warsaw, University of Ghent, European School of Translation, Hellenic American College of Greece, the Complutense University of Madrid, and many others.

www.profuzdigital.com