Industry-leading Metadata Providers Combine Expertise to Create
Unparalleled Discovery Solution for Pay-TV and Entertainment Content
Providers
SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) today announced that Rovi has formed a
strategic alliance with leading Brazilian metadata provider, Revista
Eletrônica, to offer an advanced metadata solution targeted at pay-TV
and entertainment content providers. Revista Eletrônica is an in-market
provider that has delivered high-quality local TV listings to the
Brazilian pay-TV market for more than 20 years. When combined with
Rovi’s expansive global entertainment database, comprised of metadata
for a broad array of international content and local TV programming for
more than 70 countries worldwide, the collaboration results in an
expanded set of market-leading Brazilian metadata products. Together,
Rovi and Revista Eletrônica deliver unparalleled metadata quality for
entertainment applications and devices.
Rovi Video, the leading global database for international TV, movie and
celebrity metadata, will be further strengthened with Revista
Eletrônica’s comprehensive television coverage, local knowledge and
customer relationships in Brazil. The combined product and services
provide broad, descriptive entertainment metadata to help Rovi consumers
worldwide discover, manage and enjoy digital content across multiple
platforms.
“Collaborating with Rovi further expands our metadata offering to reach
new market segments, including over-the-top (OTT) content, web portals
and e-commerce in Brazil,” said Carlos Lorenz, founding partner and
director of IT, Revista Eletrônica. “With more than two decades of
experience working with leading Brazilian service providers and
networks, we are collaborating with Rovi to address our customers’ needs
and empower them to deliver next-generation discovery experiences that
drive revenue, usage and consumer satisfaction.”
Revista Eletrônica has produced database solutions for electronic
programming guides for the pay-TV market since 1994. More than 85
percent of Brazilian operators use Revista Eletrônica’s high-quality
information of local TV program schedules.
“Our exclusive arrangement with Revista Eletrônica further enhances
Rovi’s position in creating and implementing entertainment metadata to
deliver innovative, engaging content discovery experiences to viewers
around the globe,” said Kathy Weidman, senior vice president and general
manager, metadata, Rovi. “We are excited about the opportunity to
strengthen our Brazilian product offering to our worldwide customers.”
Rovi Metadata provides the foundation for intuitive search and
navigation across the entire entertainment ecosystem, enabling users to
easily find their favorite TV shows, movies, music, celebrities, books,
and games, as well as discover new ones. Rovi Knowledge Graph, the
entertainment industry’s most robust source of dynamic, searchable
metadata, maintains real-time updated semantic information on more than
100 million entertainment-related entities including program titles,
celebrity names, locations and descriptors like genre, sub-genre and
theme, all of which is influenced by trending social media topics.
About Revista Eletrônica
Revista Eletrônica’s database solutions for electronic programming
guides have been used by the Brazilian pay-TV market for more than 20
years. More than 85 percent of Brazilian national operators use the
information processed by Revista Eletrônica to update electronic
programming guides, corporate websites, programming magazines and other
media and services of interest.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) is creating personalized and data-driven
ways for viewers to discover the right entertainment and for providers
to discover the right audiences. Chosen by top brands in entertainment
content, services and devices, Rovi touches the lives of hundreds of
millions of consumers by providing comprehensive solutions, customizable
products and technology licensing to make discovery simple, seamless and
personal. With more than 5,000 issued or pending patents worldwide, Rovi
is advancing entertainment and audience discovery. Learn more at rovicorp.com
or follow us on Twitter @rovicorp.
Forward Looking Statements
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fact, including statements that use the words “will” or “is expected
to,” or similar words that describe Rovi Corporation’s or its
management’s future plans, objectives or goals, are “forward-looking
statements” and are made pursuant to the Safe-Harbor provisions of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking
statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors that could cause the actual results of Rovi Corporation to be
materially different from the historical results and/or from any future
results or outcomes expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Such factors are further addressed in Rovi Corporation’s
most recent report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2016, and
such other documents as are filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission from time to time (available at www.sec.gov).
Rovi Corporation assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking
statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise
after the date of this release, except as required by law.
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Source: Rovi Corporation