Zedge’s Dataseeds.AI Grows its Enterprise Customer Base for Rights-Cleared, On-Demand Visual Datasets
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Zedge (NYSE AMERICAN: ZDGE) on October 20, 2025 announced increased demand and new customer wins for Dataseeds.AI, its B2B service supplying on‑demand, rights‑cleared image datasets for AI training. The company noted customers include leading AI companies and highlighted enhancements to its search that surface contextually relevant and ancillary content.
Dataseeds.AI combines Zedge's catalog of approximately 30 million rights‑cleared images, GuruShots challenge sourcing and the Zedge Marketplace to deliver rapid, global, rights‑cleared datasets tailored to enterprise specifications.
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Dataseeds.AI shows clear commercial traction by converting a large creator catalog into rights-cleared, on-demand datasets for enterprise AI buyers.
Dataseeds.AI monetizes Zedge's creator ecosystem by packaging approximately 30 million rights-cleared images and activating targeted content creation through GuruShots challenges to meet bespoke requests. This model combines an existing royalty-cleared supply with rapid demand-driven creation, shortening time-to-data for customers that need geographically and contextually specific imagery.
The offering's value depends on sustained customer demand and the platform's ability to maintain quality, metadata accuracy, and rights documentation at scale; execution risk centers on operationalizing bespoke sourcing without cost overruns. Watch for repeat orders from the named "leading AI companies," contract terms (scope, exclusivity, pricing), and delivery cadence across the next 6–12 months to assess revenue predictability.
Enhanced search and rights-cleared sourcing reduce legal friction and increase dataset relevance for model training.
By surfacing ancillary image elements and combining catalog search with targeted photo challenges, the platform improves dataset relevance and diversity while keeping rights clearance explicit. Using curated contributions and marketplace artists for complex briefs helps ensure provenance and licensing clarity for downstream model use.
Key dependencies include the robustness of metadata, the completeness of rights assignments for each asset, and the speed of targeted content campaigns; monitor metadata completeness rates, time-to-delivery for bespoke briefs, and any disclosed licensing terms over the next
New customer wins underscore accelerating adoption of custom, rights-cleared visual content
Zedge's global creator community, including GuruShots and Zedge Marketplace contributors, fulfills bespoke customer requests at scale
Enhancements to search tool improve discovery of contextually relevant content needed to fulfil customer requests
NEW YORK, NY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / October 20, 2025 / Zedge, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN:ZDGE), $ZDGE, a leader in digital marketplaces and interactive games that provide content, enable creativity, empower self-expression and facilitate community, today announced growing demand for Dataseeds.AI, its B2B offering that provides developers of foundational AI models and enterprises with a source of scalable, commercial-grade on-demand, rights-cleared image datasets for AI training. Customers include leading AI companies.
Jonathan Reich, Zedge's CEO, commented:
"Zedge's global creator community is a key differentiator for DataSeeds.AI's ability to deliver custom image datasets at scale. When a recent client required images of common objects and how they appear in their native setting across 20 countries, we fulfilled the order by tapping our existing catalog and search capabilities, and launching a targeted GuruShots photo challenge aligned with the customer's specifications to further build out the dataset. Our engineers have also strengthened the platform's search to identify content that may be peripheral to an image's primary subject. These strengths make DataSeeds.AI relevant to enterprises beyond technology companies that need authentic, high-quality content at scale."
Content on Demand at Scale
Dataseeds.AI leverages Zedge's unique and original catalog of approximately 30 million rights-cleared images curated and ranked through GuruShots,The World's Greatest Photography Game. Thousands of photographers worldwide contribute original content through GuruShots' vibrant challenge system.
When highly specific or niche visual requests arise, Dataseeds.AI rapidlylaunches targeted Gurushots challenges to source bespoke content. For complex or specialized projects, Zedge can also engage its Zedge Premium Marketplace artists and other creators to assemble this content. This approach delivers scale, global reach, rapid turnaround and full rights clearance for every asset.
AI-Driven Discovery Expands Customer Value
Dataseeds.AI's enhanced search technology discovers imagery that meets customer requirements, including content that may be ancillary to an image's primary subject. This advancement expands the catalog's value by surfacing assets that are critical to a customer's needs but might otherwise remain buried.
Together, these capabilities make Dataseeds.AI a flexible and scalable solution for organizations that need authentic, diverse and contextually rich visual content delivered quickly and cost-effectively.
About Zedge
Zedge empowers tens of millions of consumers and creators each month with its suite of interconnected platforms that enable creativity, self-expression and e-commerce and foster community through fun competitions. Zedge's ecosystem of product offerings includes the Zedge Marketplace, a freemium marketplace offering mobile phone wallpapers, video wallpapers, ringtones, notification sounds, and pAInt, a generative AI image maker; GuruShots, "The World's Greatest Photography Game," a skill-based photo challenge game; Emojipedia, the #1 trusted source for 'all things emoji;' and DataSeeds.AI, which leverages Zedge's consumer games and marketplaces to offer both on-demand and off-the-shelf image and video datasets enriched with detailed metadata, perfectly suited for AI model training.
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About Dataseeds.ai
Dataseeds.ai is a next generation visual content platform offering on demand access to a rapidly growing catalog of approximately 30 million high quality, fully rights cleared images. Uniquely positioned to deliver custom content at scale, Dataseeds leverages its global creator network, tens of thousands of photographers from GuruShots, the world's leading photography game, to fulfill highly specific client briefs across geographies, themes and use cases. This includes addressing one of the biggest challenges facing creative and AI workflows today, namely the need for edge case and diverse visual content to improve output quality and representation. Each asset can be enhanced with detailed annotations, segmentation masks, technical metadata and peer based quality rankings, ensuring datasets are both robust and production ready. With scalable infrastructure and fast turnaround times, Dataseeds is the preferred partner for enterprises building the next generation of creative and AI powered applications.
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