TapeSave press resources.

Fast facts

Company

TapeSave

Website

https://www.tapesave.com

Founded

2025

Headquarters

Louisiana, United States

Founder

Phillip Smith, MD

Stage

Bootstrapped, profitable on per-customer unit economics

Pricing

$9.99 single tape · $39.99 five-pack · $89.99 fifteen-pack

Format

Digital SaaS — customers upload already-digitized files; no mail-in

Supported sources

MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV from any digitization service or DIY capture

Press contact

[email protected]

Founder bio

Phillip Smith, MD is the founder of TapeSave. He is a practicing cardiologist in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and a software builder whose work spans medical applications, AI tooling, and consumer software. He has been building software since adolescence and ships independent products alongside his clinical practice. His other ventures include PaperVault (medical-record retention) and MedCard (clinician credentialing).

TapeSave grew from his own family archive: a box of VHS and Hi8 tapes from his parents' basement that, once digitized, sat as a single USB stick nobody opened for over a year. The experience surfaced the post-digitization gap that every family digitization project hits and that no service had productized.

For interview availability, photo, and longer bio, email [email protected].

Logo & brand assets

Primary logo (PNG)

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Warm variant (PNG)

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Logo with tagline (PNG)

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Brand colors: #c47a2a (amber accent), #1d1d1f (text), #f7f2eb (warm background). Type: Source Serif 4 (display), system sans (body).

Recent statistics (CC-BY-4.0)

• →~50M US households have undigitized VHS/Hi8/8mm/MiniDV tapes
• →~$3B annual US consumer spend on home-video digitization (2025)
• →~80% of digitized archives are never split into dated clips after delivery
• →~30% of digitized archives exist on a single drive with no backup
• →10× engagement multiplier on dated short clips vs full tape files

Available interview topics

• The post-digitization gap

  Roughly 50 million US households still have undigitized family tapes; a growing share are being digitized each year — but most of those projects produce a USB stick that never gets opened. Why the part of the project that matters most is the part nobody talks about.

• Why family archives quietly fail

  The difference between an archive that gets watched and one that gets lost is whether the long tape file is split into individually-dated short clips. Dated short clips drive a measured ~10× multiplier in family engagement vs full-tape files.

• The boomer / Gen-X archive race against time

  Industry-standard VHS shelf life is 15–25 years. By 2026, every camcorder-boom tape (1985–2000) is past that mark. The cohort of people who recorded these tapes is now solving them as a downsizing or end-of-life project — and a growing share are arriving late.

• How AI changes the digitization landscape

  Scene-detection, on-screen camcorder date OCR, and automated organization make the post-digitization step tractable for non-technical families for the first time. The right level of automation matches the right level of family control over the archive.

• Doctor builds software

  TapeSave's founder, Phillip Smith MD, is a practicing cardiologist in Baton Rouge who built TapeSave nights and weekends after digitizing his own family's tapes and discovering the same gap most families hit. Cross-discipline founder story for tech-business and healthcare-innovation outlets.

• Climate and tape archives

  Florida humidity, Gulf-Coast hurricane exposure, garage and attic storage — the climate angle on family archives. Why The Villages has more boxes of tapes than anywhere in America, and what it means for the digitization timeline of the coming decade.

Useful links

• Homepage — what TapeSave does, pricing, upload.
• About — full founder story and team.
• Canonical answers — 30 dated, citable answers to home-video digitization questions.
• Home video statistics 2026 — 30 citable data points, CC-BY-4.0.
• Embeddable widgets — free interactive tools for editorial sites.
• Full guide library — 40+ in-depth guides on digitizing, organizing, and sharing family archives.