Company overview

arvato is breaking open digital content distribution. Leading the market's evolution from dependency on proprietary channels and outsourced e-commerce sales models, arvato enables the first and only open, neutral and efficient network for online digital content distribution. arvato brings global retailers and publishers together, giving them trusted control, to reach an expanded global community of millions of customers, efficiently and securely.

Market Need
Today's $3 billion electronic software distribution (ESD) market is expected to triple by the end of the decade. Consumers have come to expect the immediate gratification of downloading digital content, but today's online retailers and content publishers are unable to participate in ESD because existing electronic distribution models are outsourced, inadequate and inefficient.

Even though consumers are demanding it, online retailers are unable to deliver digital content directly from their web site. They either have to strike complex agreements with multiple publishers individually, or use outsourced distribution processes that move their customers off their web sites to third-party competitors.

Without a trusted and efficient means for publishers to engage and manage online retail channels, aggregate markets of shopping consumers remain unreachable. It is inefficient for content publishers to manage multiple agreements and hundreds of titles directly with online retailers. And they lack a trusted technology-based system for real-time digital packaging, delivery, and verification of products sold.