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ThinkAnalytics and Gracenote Make Visual Content Discovery Easy with New Turnkey Solution

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

With this combined offering, cable and satellite TV services and streaming platform customers have a new, easy-to-implement solution to optimize visual content merchandising and personalize the user experience.

Key Points: 
  • With this combined offering, cable and satellite TV services and streaming platform customers have a new, easy-to-implement solution to optimize visual content merchandising and personalize the user experience.
  • This collaboration between ThinkAnalytics and Gracenote results in a powerful turnkey solution for video service providers to positively impact key consumption and engagement indicators.
  • "We are thrilled to extend our long-running collaboration with ThinkAnalytics resulting in this new turnkey solution enabling customers to maximize engagement with content and viewership on their platforms."
  • ThinkAnalytics delivers content discovery and viewer insights to over 80 service providers serving 350 million subscribers in 43 languages with 6 billion recommendations per day, making the company the largest independent content discovery platform worldwide.

ThinkAnalytics and Gracenote Make Visual Content Discovery Easy with New Turnkey Solution

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

With this combined offering, cable and satellite TV services and streaming platform customers have a new, easy-to-implement solution to optimize visual content merchandising and personalize the user experience.

Key Points: 
  • With this combined offering, cable and satellite TV services and streaming platform customers have a new, easy-to-implement solution to optimize visual content merchandising and personalize the user experience.
  • This collaboration between ThinkAnalytics and Gracenote results in a powerful turnkey solution for video service providers to positively impact key consumption and engagement indicators.
  • "We are thrilled to extend our long-running collaboration with ThinkAnalytics resulting in this new turnkey solution enabling customers to maximize engagement with content and viewership on their platforms."
  • ThinkAnalytics delivers content discovery and viewer insights to over 80 service providers serving 350 million subscribers in 43 languages with 6 billion recommendations per day, making the company the largest independent content discovery platform worldwide.

Gracenote Expands International Metadata Coverage to Vibrant Poland Market

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Gracenote, a Nielsen company (NYSE: NLSN), has expanded its international Video metadata coverage to include Poland to serve the country's healthy appetite for entertainment content.

Key Points: 
  • EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Gracenote, a Nielsen company (NYSE: NLSN), has expanded its international Video metadata coverage to include Poland to serve the country's healthy appetite for entertainment content.
  • The average time spent in Poland watching TV remains consistently high, amounting to five hours and 10 minutes per day in 2020 according to Nielsen.
  • Under these conditions, TV providers are challenged to provide effective content navigation, search and discovery features which facilitate viewing and loyalty.
  • With the expansion of Gracenote Video data into Poland, the company's international data footprint across Video, Music and Sports covers the world's most critical regions, countries and languages.

Gracenote Expands International Metadata Coverage to Vibrant Poland Market

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Best-in-class entertainment data enables Polish TV providers to deliver powerful content navigation and discovery capabilities, maximize viewership and engagement

Key Points: 
  • Best-in-class entertainment data enables Polish TV providers to deliver powerful content navigation and discovery capabilities, maximize viewership and engagement
    EMERYVILLE, Calif., May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Gracenote, a Nielsen company (NYSE: NLSN), has expanded its international Video metadata coverage to include Poland to serve the country's healthy appetite for entertainment content.
  • The average time spent in Poland watching TV remains consistently high, amounting to five hours and 10 minutes per day in 2020 according to Nielsen.
  • Gracenote is the content services pillar of Nielsen, the leading global data and analytics company already working with major Polish TV broadcasters.
  • With the expansion of Gracenote Video data into Poland, the company's international data footprint across Video, Music and Sports covers the world's most critical regions, countries and languages.

Women 50+ Are Underrepresented On Top TV Programs

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Friday, March 19, 2021

Using custom analysis from the recently-launched Gracenote Inclusion Analytics, the report uncovers that women over the age of 50 are underrepresented on top TV programs and when they are seen, they often play stereotypical roles.

Key Points: 
  • Using custom analysis from the recently-launched Gracenote Inclusion Analytics, the report uncovers that women over the age of 50 are underrepresented on top TV programs and when they are seen, they often play stereotypical roles.
  • When it comes to representation on TV, Gracenote Inclusion Analytics show that men are on-screen more than women (62% screen time vs. 38%), even though women make up more than half of the U.S. population.
  • Spanish-language talent shows, awards shows and novelas were the most popular program types on broadcast TV among Hispanic women.
  • Usage during primetime had increased by 51% for women over age 65, a year over year (2020 - 21) increase that outpaced women 50-64 and women overall.

SHAZAM Acquires Digital Filing Solutions, Adds FileX Solution to Enhance Core Product Suite

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Thursday, March 4, 2021

The integration of FileX will enhance SHAZAMs full suite of core products and services.

Key Points: 
  • The integration of FileX will enhance SHAZAMs full suite of core products and services.
  • In addition to adding FileX to SHAZAMs full suite of products and services, well continue to support the education and healthcare industries that run the FileX solution today.
  • After many years of working with the experts at DFS, we are excited to expand our product offerings and boost the powerful capabilities of FileX by integrating it into our suite of core products, continued Kelli Landry, SHAZAM product manager.
  • The solution will become a standard component of the SHAZAM core, but will also be available as a standalone solution.

New Gracenote Personalized Imagery Solution Helps TV Services Improve Content Discovery and Drive Viewership

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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

The new Gracenote solution enables services to present the best images to individual viewers as they make tune-in decisions.

Key Points: 
  • The new Gracenote solution enables services to present the best images to individual viewers as they make tune-in decisions.
  • Delivering highly personalized user experiences that connect viewers to the most appealing content is a challenge for TV providers seeking to improve important consumption metrics.
  • With Gracenote Personalized Imagery, we are offering TV providers a proven way to increase engagement with their content and maximize viewership on their platforms."
  • Gracenote Personalized Imagery is the newest product in the company's Advanced Discovery suite of services, which also includes Video Descriptors and Video Popularity Score , developed to help customers improve content discovery and drive viewership on their platforms.

Nielsen Launches Gracenote Inclusion Analytics to Accelerate Diversity Transformation in Hollywood

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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

A studio can evaluate whether its content meets Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) benchmarks and highlight programs for licensing opportunities.

Key Points: 
  • A studio can evaluate whether its content meets Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) benchmarks and highlight programs for licensing opportunities.
  • "The entertainment industry has a massive challenge ahead - to ensure the talent associated with popular TV programming mirrors today's increasingly diverse viewing audiences," said Sandra Sims-Williams, SVP, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Nielsen.
  • "By democratizing information around representation in content, Gracenote Inclusion Analytics holds the power to push the industry toward better balance and a more equitable future."
  • Gracenote Inclusion Analytics marries industry-leading Gracenote Global Video program metadata and Studio System celebrity race and ethnicity data with currency grade Nielsen Television Ratings and Nielsen SVOD Content Ratings data.

Gracenote Powers New Live Sports Experiences for Smart TV and Auto Platforms

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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Gracenote, a Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) company, is launching a new live sports solution designed to help smart TV and auto manufacturers enable dynamic sports experiences to engage fans at home or on-the-go.

Key Points: 
  • EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Gracenote, a Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) company, is launching a new live sports solution designed to help smart TV and auto manufacturers enable dynamic sports experiences to engage fans at home or on-the-go.
  • Leveraging Gracenote Global Sports Data, CE manufacturers and automakers can now easily integrate real-time team statistics, recent game results and live updates to TV and video home screens and auto infotainment systems.
  • "Live sports are an increasingly important differentiator for entertainment platforms seeking to increase user engagement," said Simon Adams, Chief Product Officer of Gracenote.
  • "For years, Gracenote has powered sports viewing experiences for the largest TV providers in the world.

ReadSpeaker and SoundHound Inc. Partner to Provide Humanlike Voices for Branded Voice Assistants

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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

ReadSpeaker , the most trusted, independent digital voice partner for global businesses, today announced it has partnered with SoundHound, Inc. , the leading innovator of voice AI and conversational intelligence technologies, to include ReadSpeakers text-to-speech (TTS) technology on the Houndify Voice AI platform.

Key Points: 
  • ReadSpeaker , the most trusted, independent digital voice partner for global businesses, today announced it has partnered with SoundHound, Inc. , the leading innovator of voice AI and conversational intelligence technologies, to include ReadSpeakers text-to-speech (TTS) technology on the Houndify Voice AI platform.
  • Developers using Houndify will now have the ability to add ReadSpeakers hyper-personalized and lifelike voices to their custom voice assistants.
  • ReadSpeaker is the most trusted, independent digital voice partner for global brands.
  • Houndify, our independent voice AI platform, allows developers to build custom voice assistants with a branded wake word for any product or service.