Your most valuable assets are degrading right now. Film deteriorates. Tapes demagnetise. Hard drives fail. Files corrupt. Most organisations don't find out until they need something that no longer exists.
Some things, once lost, can never be recovered. Media and information assets are more than data carriers. They’re culture, history, evidence, and memory.
For over 40 years, Preferred Media has helped organisations preserve, digitise, secure, and manage vital assets across their entire lifecycle. Our mission is to remove the risk of degradation, loss, or inaccessibility before it becomes irreversible. Delivered from sovereign Australian facilities by our local team.
Ransomware can't reach what isn't connected. Your assets are preserved in an air-gapped environment, isolated from your network and ours. If a cyber attack hits tomorrow, your archive survives intact.
Predictable costs and tailored service options to assist with budgeting and avoid surprises.
LTO based solutions produce 97% less carbon emissions than alternative technologies, preserving the planet whilst preserving your assets.
Organise your archive structurally and with metadata for the greatest discoverability and usage
We have developed and operate one of the world’s largest transcoding engines. Viewable access files are available for just about every original file format.
Preserving corporate history can demonstrate transparency, accountability, and respect for stakeholders as part of your Corporate Governance strategy.
Physical and digital security with multiple air gapped copies of your assets for total peace of mind.
24hr online platform to view and access your Assets. Digital Access Copies can be played, downloaded and shared anytime.
We help track and audit your media, capturing metadata, stabilising your digital media infrastructure within our Preferred Connection platform.
We help you consolidate and organise your critical historical content, in whatever project and file structure you require.
Australian data sovereignty with industry leading security, including offline LTO preservation, air-gapped online access, and diverse physical geolocations.
Avoid the lock in and bill shock of egress fees, exchange rate fluctuations and volume caps with simple pricing and predictable billing.
Use elastic search, filtering and previews to find a specific file online from anywhere at any time rather than searching for that illusive SD Card or USB Drive.
Our concierge service and curation assistant take care of your projects to ensure that your data is always secure, always intact, and readily accessible.
Share a specific file or grant access to the full project. Let your clients know what you're working with just one click.
If it's preserved, it's findable and viewable. Preferred Connection is our secure web portal where you can manage, explore, access, and share all of your digital assets from anywhere, on any device, at any time.
Whether you make new media submissions online, via API or by sending via a courier, your media passes through offtake and ingestion to archive completion at high speed with fixity at every stage.
We protect the life of your physical media assets by migrating them to the digital world or converting legacy formats to new standards for accessibility.
We analyse and manage the digitisation of your physical media formats with the option of enhancement to quality and metadata on the way through.
Turn every disk into digits, every box into bytes and extend longevity, whilst always preserving the original.
Our MediaVault is safe, secure and climate-controlled facility at a primary and sattelite location in Sydney.
A stronghold for your physical media, artifacts, documents, textiles, and more. No matter their age or condition. Preserving the legacy of your business.
MediaVault is also the optimum location for air gapped storage of your digital backups, be those LTO tapes, Hard Drives or other storage devices.
Preferred Media acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our business operates, the Camerayagal people. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. We recognize and celebrate the enduring connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to the lands, waters, and communities. We are committed to honouring their cultural heritage and continuing to learn from their rich traditions and knowledge.
Our friendly experts will work with you to answer your preservation and archiving needs.
