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Find everything from media marketing best practices to the latest industry insights.
Why your book metadata matters.
Metadata, the data about data basically allows you to tag, categorize and distribute all book information.
Better tagging means better distribution, which leads to larger coverage, which ultimately leads to higher reads.
Rethinking ID Mapping: Adapting to Chaos in Movie and Series Cataloging
The industry has long faced problems with ID tagging systems. It's common for broadcasters to lack a solid tagging system, leading to difficulties in matching and organizing content accurately. This disarray not only complicates internal operations but also impacts content delivery to audiences.
Why your metadata isn’t metadata-ing like it should: the hidden costs of scattered data
When metadata—data about data—is scattered across different systems without a unified management strategy, it becomes a silent bottleneck, hindering your agility, security, and growth.
“The devil is in the detail” What well managed metadata really means.
Metadata are tags that help identify your content. It’s the data that provides information about the content itself, for example title, director, genre, cast, runtime, language, etc. This article dives into the importance of well managed metadata with examples of Babadook and White Collar on Netflix.
Why metadata is so insanely important for your content.
Metadata is the information that describes a TV show or movie, such as its title, plot, cast, and release date. This information is crucial for making your content discoverable and appealing to viewers, and it needs to be distributed to all the different platforms where your content is available
Turn your metadata into a high-performing machine
Learn how to turn your metadata into a high-performing machine and start getting the exposure you’re after.
The best way to deliver schedules and metadata to your MVPDs and vMVPDs
This article will go over all of the ins and outs of MVPDs and vMPDs and explain how you can use Clipsource to feed all of the platforms that require metadata and schedule data from you.
Press release distribution software [A guide for media companies]
If you work in PR for TV, VOD or books then this is the guide for you. Make sure you aren’t selling yourself short and understand what questions to ask when adopting a new press release distribution system.
Control your own EPG data with your own TV listings API
Learn why it is important for you to take control of your EPG data for Live TV and VOD and how you can achieve this with your own TV listings API.
The importance of betting on all of your content: A lesson from ‘Squid Game’
If you haven’t heard about Netflix’s latest original series Squid Game, then you must be living under a rock. Find out what your OTT platform can learn from the huge phenomenon that is Squid Game.
4 ways to maximise your metadata distribution with Clipsource
Here are 4 ways that we can help you maximise your metadata distribution efforts and get your programs discovered.
“You should strive to localize as much as possible”
Urban Löfbom is responsible for the roadmap for the Content Platform, a part of the Product and Tech organisation at Nordic Entertainment Group. Read his full interview here.
Streaming Wars: Paradigm shift in Television Marketing
Learn how the shift from Linear to VOD has changed television marketing and the ability to win viewers.
This kind of metadata makes viewers hate you
Are you a victim of bad “sold metadata”? Find out if your metadata is costing you viewers.
Why Rich Metadata May Be The Sharpest Weapon in the Streaming Wars
As the supply of movies and drama surges, competition for viewers’ attention and subscriptions will increase. The question is where and how is the money for doing this best spent?
Turning legacy data into hard currency for broadcasters
Learn how you can turn your legacy data into rich information that can help viewers find your programs.