Media Kit
Access our free media kit, featuring high-res photos, video assets, FAQs, and brand logos.
Go to the media kit →Arctic World Archive (AWA) Foundation Co-Marketing & PR Kit
Preserving your data in the AWA is a major milestone. Let's share it with the world together!
Transferring your digital heritage to the AWA is a powerful statement of resilience, trust, and responsibility for the future. To help you maximize the PR value of this event, the AWA Foundation offers a co-marketing partnership. We work directly with your PR team to amplify your story across digital channels and global media.
What we offer
Case Study
We publish an in-depth case study about your company and your deposit on the AWA Foundation website. The link can be seamlessly integrated into your own PR materials.
Press Release & Media Distribution
We publish an AWA Foundation press release featuring and highlighting your company and deposit to our combined network of global tech, business, and industry media. Upon request, we can draft a dedicated joint press release in collaboration with your PR team for distribution to your list of media.
Social Media Collaborations
Collaborative posts cross-tagged across LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram for organic reach.
About AWA Foundation
Learn more about the non-profit foundation, its governance structure, international mission, and role in preserving global cultural heritage in Svalbard.
Learn about the Foundation →Proven Technology Behind AWA
Discover piqlFilm – an immutable, non-electric, and migration-free data storage solution engineered to protect information against physical and digital threats.
Explore the Technology +Hide details −
piqlFilm is a photosensitive optical film developed by Piql AS. Data is written to the film as high-density QR-like codes and, where useful, as human-readable images and text.
The film is passive and offline: it needs no electricity to keep the data, cannot be hacked or altered once written, and is immune to electromagnetic pulses. It has documented longevity of more than 1,000 years.
The instructions for decoding the data are written in plain text on the film itself, so the information can be recovered with nothing more than a light source and a camera – no proprietary software, no migration to new formats.
How preservation works →Free downloadable media assets for PR use.
Fill in your details and accept the terms to unlock the downloads. Files can be downloaded one by one, or all together as a ZIP folder.
Downloads unlock once the fields above are filled in and the terms are accepted.
Custom Filming Packages
We are happy to share our free media kit. However, custom requests – including filming based on your scenario, tailored interviews, exclusive footage, and access inside the Archive – require dedicated time and production resources, and are available through our custom packages.
- Included in all packages in Svalbard
- Location access, filming permits inside and outside AWA, on-demand scenes, and scheduled time with a senior representative from the AWA team.
- Provided by you
- Film crew, relevant equipment, lighting, audio, and post-production editing.
- Scheduling
- Filming and interviews take place at scheduled times agreed in advance.
- Drone filming
- Special permits are required for drone filming on Svalbard. Please review the official guidelines at Sysselmesteren: Drones on Svalbard. As AWA is close to the airport, advance coordination with Longyearbyen Airport is mandatory.
Choose your filming experience: AWA in Svalbard, Norway and/or AWA/Piql HQ, production and lab in Drammen, Norway.
AWA, Svalbard
- Ice Cube · 30 min€300
- Iceberg · 2 hours€600
- Glacier · 4 hours or morefrom €1,200
HQ, production and lab, Drammen
30 min. drive from Oslo
- Duration: 6–7 hours
- Guided tour of the Piql production facility – filming of all process steps
- Visit to the laboratory (film processing)
- Interview with the team (founders and/or technical team)
- Light lunch
This HQ visit can be combined with AWA Svalbard packages or booked separately.
Featured in Media
- Forbes Paraguay
- The Guardian
- BBC: Could an Arctic underground vault save our data? (2025)
- RAZOR Science Show & CGTN Europe: A vault in Svalbard's Arctic frost wants to protect your data (2025)
- la Repubblica: Tra i ghiacci delle Svalbard l’archivio dei capolavori (2024)
- Tank & Rast: Eiskalte Datenspeicherung: Spitzbergens Beitrag zur Zukunft der Kommunikation (2024)
- elEconomista: La historia de la conquista española oculta bajo la nieve en una montaña de Noruega (2024)
Depositor Case Studies
In-depth stories of the institutions, companies and individuals who have preserved their memory in the Arctic World Archive.
Explore the Repository →Press Releases
UNESCO and Arctic World Archive Foundation strengthen cooperation to safeguard global documentary heritage
- Download PDF
September 2024
Arctic World Archive 2024 Deposit Ceremony
Visuals Usage & On-Site Filming Terms
Visual Media
By downloading and using materials from the AWA Foundation Press Kit, you confirm your agreement to the following rules:
- All photo and video materials are provided free of charge strictly for editorial and news purposes.
- Mandatory attribution and copyright notice: © Arctic World Archive Foundation.
- Commercial use, resale, or distortion of the original video and photo content is prohibited.
On-Site Filming
By filming on the premises and inside the AWA, media representatives agree to the following terms:
- Filming is permitted strictly when accompanied by an AWA Foundation representative and only in designated areas to comply with Svalbard and Gruve 3 safety regulations.
- Use of the AWA Foundation logo and branding, as well as referencing piqlFilm technology, is permitted within editorial, news, documentary, and educational contexts.
Copyright and Material Rights
- Independent media: All materials shot by independent media crews belong to their respective media outlets for editorial use.
- AWA Foundation material: All photo and video materials created by the AWA Foundation team during Deposit Ceremonies or events are the exclusive property of the AWA Foundation. The Foundation reserves the right to use these materials (including images of attendees and guests) in PR, reports, and social media.
- Depositing organisations (corporate communications): Video and photo materials shot on-site by or for a depositing organisation are intended exclusively for the internal and external communications of that specific organisation. Transferring rights to third parties, selling to stock photo platforms, or commercial use outside the context of the data deposit is strictly prohibited without prior written permission from the AWA Foundation.
- Mandatory location credit in video captions, credits, and article descriptions: Arctic World Archive Foundation, Longyearbyen.
