Verbit Completes Acquisition of VITAC

Verbit has acquired VITAC, the largest provider of captioning products and solutions in North America.

Together with VITAC’s established 35 years of captioning expertise – including as customers every broadcast company, most cable networks, program producers, corporations, educational institutions, and government agencies – Verbit can now offer a deeper portfolio of solutions. The enhanced transcription and captioning platform will feature industry experts, AI-based tools, established integrations with video cloud platforms, and support to translate transcription into any language. The combined company will also provide dedicated client success teams to expand their already superior client service.

“We are thrilled to further strengthen our position as the market leader in the transcription and captioning industries in partnership with VITAC. This opportunity allows us to expand our offerings for the media vertical and provide advanced transcription capabilities to our current education, legal, and corporate customers,” says Tom Livne, CEO and Founder of Verbit. “The combined company will harness decades of transcription and captioning experience to offer customers a best-in-class solution based on our proven technology. We will continue to invest in our platforms, top talent, and domain expertise to evolve and develop our solutions to meet our customers’ dynamic needs.”

With the largest professional transcription and captioning workforce in the industry, Verbit will drive forward its mission to make all video and audio content accessible to everyone through its high-quality captioning and transcription capabilities.

“We’re delighted to join the Verbit family and bolster their leading position in the transcription industry globally,” says Chris Crowell, CEO of VITAC. “We’ve been incredibly impressed with Verbit’s rapid growth and technology advantages, and together we look forward to serving more of this dynamic industry with customers across all vertical segments.”