Vizrt (), short for Visualization in Real-Time or Visual Artist, is a Norwegian company that creates content production, management, and distribution tools for the digital media industry. Its products include applications that create real-time 3D graphics and maps, visualised sports analysis, media asset management, and single workflow solutions for the digital broadcast industry. Vizrt has a customer base in more than 100 countries and some 600 employees distributed across 40 offices worldwide. Viz software includes the tools Viz Pilot and Viz One, aimed at news organisations and digital broadcasters. Intended users include journalists whose traditional role as pure news-gatherers is extended to include controlling the flow of their story from a single point. Vizrt products connect to newsroom control systems like iNews, ENPS, and Octopus Newsroom. The software allows users to edit graphic templates, locate and edit archived video content, build playlists for on-air use, as well as distribute online content and maintain content on social media sites. The company typically provides entire deliveries that comprise software, hardware, consulting, installation, and support. Its head office is situated in Bergen, Norway. Vizrt customers are typically broadcasters and publishing houses. Vizrt is a privately owned company by Nordic Capital Fund VIII. History TV 2 Norway needed a solution for creating graphics in the newsroom for journalists. A spin-off company called Pilot Broadcast Systems AS was established in 1997, where the first template-based graphics system was created. In 1999, Norway-based Pilot Broadcast Systems AS merged with the Austrian company, Peak Software Technologies GmbH (founded by Christian Huber, Karl-Heinz Klotz and Hubert Oehm), to form Peak Broadcast Systems. Peak Software was a developer of software for real-time 3D graphics and animation, virtual sets and playback control systems. The business fusion Peak Broadcast Systems, could now offer software for real-time 3D graphics creation and virtual sets, together with playout control. The following year marked the formation of Vizrt when Peak Broadcast Systems merged with RT-SET (Real Time Synthesized Entertainment Technology) Ltd, an Israeli virtual studio system developer. RT-SET, founded in 1994, utilized Flight Simulator technology originally developed for the Israeli Air Force, transforming it to a virtual set and on-air graphics systems that could benefit the television broadcast industry. In 1999, RT-SET had an initial public offering on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, raising $48 million. The combined company continued to be listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (under ticker symbol VIZ), until 2009 when it