The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) has landed on a theme and location for its April 24 Annual Participant Meeting: “Growing EIDR Together” will be hosted by Google in Los Angeles. “This year, our focus is simple and bold: grow the Registry,” said Hollie Choi, EIDR’s ... More

The Middle Ages[1] were not a particularly fun time to be alive. This is the period in European history roughly between the fall of the Western Roman Empire (a.k.a., “Classical Antiquity”) and the Renaissance (a.k.a., the “Modern” era), or c. 500–1500 CE. Most people sp... More

For the rest of 2026, Hollie Choi, managing director of the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR), has one overriding goal: grow the registry. “I want to make more EIDR IDs. Lots of them,” she said. Part of that push will be EIDR asking its existing clients to let EIDR help them ... More

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has officially unveiled the nominations for the 98th Annual Academy Awards, set for March 15 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The full slate of nominees across all 24 categories was revealed in a livestream event from the Academy�... More

If you’ve ever received – or sent – a memo, email, or inappropriately long text message similar to the above, then do we have a list of absurdist workplace comedies for you. (Trigger Warning: If you currently work in an environment where these shows could reasonably be co... More

Following successful content and media provenance events in New York, Paris, and Bergen, Norway, the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) is planning its next Media Provenance Summit for April 16 in Toronto. The event focuses on the implementation of the technic... More

As part of the Entertainment ID Registry’s (EIDR) continued efforts to enhance the quality of data within the registry, EIDR will soon introduce a weekly email summary of data quality/best practice issues found in the records user companies registered in the prior week (e.g., r... More

The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) is calling for speakers, panel ideas, and topic submissions for its next Annual Participant Meeting (APM), to be held in April in Los Angeles.The 2025 edition of the EIDR APM was held at NBCUniversal and featured sessions revolving around ... More

As the holiday season leads into the awards season, many a bottle will be opened and shared with friends and family to celebrate and, for some, to commiserate. But let’s take a look at a bottle of an entirely different sort: the “bottle film.” Bottle films stand in contras... More

The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) is welcoming its latest member from Sweden, national public television broadcaster and news site Sveriges Television AB (SVT), which is funded by a public service tax on personal income in the country. Founded in 1950 as part of the European ... More