Rovi Augments Industry Leading Offering to Meet Increased Demand for
New Metadata Elements
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) today announced that Rovi Video
continues to be a global metadata industry leader with its continued
market expansion and the introduction of new innovative features
designed to enhance the entertainment discovery experience. Rovi powers
consistently high-quality user experiences in North America, Europe,
Latin America, and Asia with Rovi Video, covering millions of movies and
TV shows spanning over 70 countries, more than any other provider.
Rovi continues to expand its metadata prominence across the globe. Rovi
Video now includes local TV, movie, and celebrity metadata in the
Philippines. Australia and India regional packages have been enhanced to
include new local TV listings. Market leaders worldwide choose Rovi
Video over other options because of its depth and breadth, as well as
its singular database based on a common ID structure. By offering a
single database with local information for multiple countries, Rovi
makes it easier for its customers to deliver consistent and high-quality
experiences, especially in the world’s most rapidly growing markets.
Rovi is the only multi-national metadata provider to cover emerging
markets like China, Russia, and Singapore.
Additionally, Rovi invests resources to develop metadata features,
further augmenting its worldwide coverage to include new offerings and
critical elements, such as sports, cross-category entertainment
information, over-the-top (OTT) video links, and rich imagery:
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Rovi brings sports fans even closer to their favorite teams and
athletes. Rovi is enhancing its sports metadata with new
descriptive information about sports, leagues, teams, and players to
drive new, personalized discovery experiences before, during, and
after the game. Rovi is rapidly developing enhancements to its
traditional sports metadata, including team standings, rosters, player
profiles, and support of full games, to include dynamic data services,
such as OTT support of full games and highlights all tied together by
the unique Rovi ID. This will serve as the foundation for seamless
navigation to many of the most memorable sports moments for 320,000
events across 40 sports and 800 leagues in 50 countries.
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Rovi is the only metadata provider offering support for multiple
media categories. With cross-referenced entertainment metadata for
video, music, games, and books, customers are readily able to
merchandise value-added services based on related content. Providers
are able to drive additional consumption and engage fans by clearly
connecting related content from multiple media types.
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Rovi Video connects users to popular online TV shows and movies
with the most current OTT links. The availability of OTT links is
more important today as online video consumption reaches an all-time
high with the proliferation of connected devices and growing digital
content catalogs. Rovi continues to incorporate links from leading
retailers and streaming video on demand services in the U.S., and now
includes sources from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK.
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Rovi continues to deepen its descriptive metadata and extensive
collection of images. Images help customers create modern,
eye-catching user experiences. Since the beginning of the year, Rovi
has added one million images to Rovi Video.
“Metadata is the crucial foundation to creating an engaging discovery
offering,” said Kathy Weidman, senior vice president and general
manager, metadata, Rovi. “Rovi Video is designed to offer granular
entertainment metadata to brands across the globe. Rovi is the only
provider to offer a unified solution of metadata, personalized search,
recommendations, and natural-language conversation services for powerful
entertainment discovery. With Rovi’s next-generation Personalized
Discovery Services, our customers are uniquely positioned to deliver a
truly engaging user experience.”
Globally, Rovi Video encompasses multimedia data on more than seven
million TV programs, more than half a million movies, and a million
celebrities, along with cast and crew bios, photos, and content-related
imagery. Native speakers with domain-area expertise create local,
searchable metadata on movies, TV series and episodes, and celebrity
profiles and descriptors such as moods and themes, making it easier for
customers to integrate localized metadata in their products.
Rovi will showcase its comprehensive suite of discovery and monetization
solutions during IBC 2015 in Stand G01, Hall 14. Learn more about
Rovi and the company’s IBC show announcements at http://www.rovicorp.com/ibc2015.
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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