Rovi’s Industry Leading Metadata Delivers Solid Foundation for
Smarter, Contextual Discovery; Rovi Knowledge Graph Available as a
Stand-Alone Offering for the First Time
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) today introduced the industry’s most
robust dynamic metadata product, Rovi Knowledge Graph. Rovi’s metadata
is now richer, smarter and more searchable, as a result of the new data
elements powered by the Rovi Knowledge Graph Engine. For the first time,
the company is offering Rovi Knowledge Graph as a stand-alone product to
customers. With Rovi’s vast collection of deep, dynamic metadata,
content distributors and service providers can more effectively
merchandise their entertainment offerings.
Rovi Knowledge Graph is unparalleled in breadth and depth, containing
dynamic information on more than 100 million entities, such as program
titles, celebrity names, corporate brands, locations and other elements.
Rovi Knowledge Graph provides machine-generated metadata from 100,000
online sources, giving Rovi customers access to 20 million additional
keyword assignments, 545,000 additional sub-genre assignments, 920,000
additional assigned roles and metadata on four million additional
people. When combined with the entertainment metadata that has been
handcrafted by a team of Rovi editors, the constantly updated Rovi
Knowledge Graph provides the most relevant discovery experiences and
answers more interesting questions than ever before.
“As broadband markets and Pay-TV services become more competitive, many
providers are enhancing video services as a path to new revenues,” said
Kathy Weidman, senior vice president and general manager for metadata,
Rovi. “However, as digital content continues to grow, it’s becoming
increasingly difficult to deliver an engaging user experience while also
presenting content based on their interests. Rovi’s dynamic metadata,
powered by the Rovi Knowledge Graph Engine, helps differentiate service
offerings in today’s crowded marketplace by creating a unique and
engaging entertainment discovery experience personalized to the
individual.”
Today, when consumers look for entertainment content to enjoy on program
guides and e-commerce sites, too many searches fail and many return
irrelevant recommendations. Rovi’s new dynamic metadata provides
customers with a deep understanding of entertainment content and how it
relates to each other, a robust vocabulary to organize and identify
content, and an awareness of what is popular or trending in the world at
any moment. Contextual signals, such as current world news and trends,
time, location and the consumers’ device, along with their social media
activity, deliver cues to accurately anticipate a user’s interests
relative to a specific time and place. With this deep understanding,
Rovi helps customers convey semantic, highly relevant search results and
recommendations that accurately anticipate user intent and interests.
Features of Rovi’s new dynamic metadata include:
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Popularity, based on algorithmic parameters, can be used to
prioritize search results
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Buzz anticipates user interests based on what is trending in
the world at any given moment
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Deep, machine-generated metadata provides discovery systems
with a larger vocabulary to identify content and to gain a deeper
understanding of user interests
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Relational links indicate the relationship between two items as
well as the strength of their connection
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Regionalization identifies content most relevant to specific
countries and geographic areas
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Unique identifiers bring useful order to unstructured content,
enable searchable experiences and disambiguate similar content across
verticals and sources
Rovi will be showcasing its entertainment discovery and monetization
solutions in booth 627 at The Internet & Television Expo (INTX), taking
place this week in Chicago.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi is leading the way to a more personalized entertainment experience.
The company’s pioneering guides, metadata and recommendations continue
to drive program search and navigation on millions of devices across the
globe. With a new generation of cloud-based discovery capabilities and
emerging solutions for interactive advertising and audience analytics,
Rovi is enabling premier brands worldwide to increase their reach, drive
consumer satisfaction and create a better entertainment experience
across multiple screens. Rovi holds over 5,000 issued or pending patents
worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Discover more
about Rovi at Rovicorp.com.
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Rovi Corporation
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