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EIDR Welcomes New Google, Amazon Studios Board Members

The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) is welcoming two new board members from Google and Amazon Studios. Ilana Vachani has handled product partnerships for Google Search since 2019. Previously she worked as an advisor and business consultant for the retail SaaS customer experie... More

Hot Films of the Cold War

On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famed “The Sinews of Peace” address to an audience at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, during which he said, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,... More

Save the Date: EIDR APM Set for May 7

The work EIDR has done with huge corporations, major additions to the EIDR board, global expansion with some of media and entertainment’s biggest names, and the latest on EIDR’s involvement in industry-wide initiatives like the Cloud Localization. Blueprint. All that and more... More

Meet EIDR at NAB 2024

Hollie Choi, managing director of the Entertainment Identifier Registry Association (EIDR), will be on the show floor at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 14-15, discussing how EIDR’s work supplying the entertainment supply chain with universal identifiers for a broad array of a... More

EIDR: The Philosophy of Discoverability

Years ago, it was common to hear studio executives talk about their visions for an automated digital supply chain that would result in an individualised experience. They would reference a not so far-off future where the need for a content super-supply-chain (nobody ever called... More

EIDR Welcomes New Members Impact Crew, Flomenco, Zavikon

EIDR is welcoming three new members to its ranks, with the addition of industry networking specialist Impact Crew, managed service provider Flomenco, and Zavikon, which focuses on recruitment and employment services for those with disabilities or who are neurodivergent. Here’s... More

MediaData TV, Red Bee Media Add to EIDR Use Cases

The Entertainment ID Registry’s (EIDR) new use case resource, detailing some of the organization’s top partnerships and advancements with media and entertainment content companies and vendors, continues to grow less than a month after its launch, with the addition of two new... More

EIDR Adds Vocabulary, Time Zone Updates in Version 2.7

The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) is releasing version 2.7 of the registry, adding additional controlled vocabulary, expanded video service time zones, and more. New to the registry’s vocabulary for edit use are the options “Airline” and “Streaming,” while the term ... More

This Year, Say It with a Kiss

Before Valentine’s Day was taken over by the chocolate-industrial complex, it was a Christian saint’s feast day honoring two[1] different St. Valentines — a Roman priest and an Umbrian bishop, both named Valentinus — who were both beheaded by the Roman Emperor Claudius Go... More

EIDR’s Kroon, WaveSeven’s Crosby Co-Author Metadata Paper

Richard Kroon, EIDR’s director of technical operations, and Cameron Crosby, partner with media and entertainment consulting firm WaveSeven, have co-authored a paper for the “Journal of Digital Media Management.” The paper — “Media and Entertainment Metadata Governanc... More