EIDR universal IDs are becoming mandatory for some content buyers before they agree to purchase a movie or TV show, and they will often use the various universal audiovisual databases around the world to research content. Registering content on all of these databases can be da... More

While traditional data mastering works just fine for small, simple problems, a new approach was needed for larger, more complex projects, according to software company Tamr. As enterprise data grows exponentially, decades of technologies have failed to address the challenge of... More

The new EIDR API Proxy was built on the framework of Reshuffle’s integration platform for developers that provides capabilities and applications that go well beyond EIDR’s current use, according to EIDR and Reshuffle. Reshuffle recently moved to a full open source framewor... More

Premiere Digital Services (PDS) supports EIDR in a key technical role: the deduplication process, according to Robert Grayson, EIDR support manager at PDS. “We work with EIDR to help meet its support goals,” as well as “deduplication and other technical needs that it hap... More

The movie, TV and music industries all need to identify venues where content is created and where content is used. To help achieve that for the music industry, EIDR has teamed up with Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) to deliver a standardized system. “During the development of o... More

It can be a challenge for parents to find the right movies and TV shows that their kids can watch, but Common Sense Media and EIDR make their jobs a whole lot easier, according to James Rodder, senior director of business development at Common Sense Media. Media and technology... More

EIDR’s board of directors kicked off the 11th annual EIDR meeting on April 13 with an outline of EIDR’s strategic vision for 2021. The opening panel session “Setting the Stage for EIDR’s Annual Participant Meeting (and Beyond)” that was part of the EIDR Annual Parti... More

The accuracy of metadata and the amount that content providers can provide plays a key role in how useful it will be, according to Jorge Boada, manager of metadata management at Showtime, which was an early EIDR adopter, and a member of the EIDR Power User Group. “More is be... More

Whip Media provides insights and intelligence to media and entertainment companies that help them figure out how their movies and TV shows will perform before they are made available to the public. And EIDR’s universal identifiers play a significant role in helping Whip achieve... More

Finding something to watch used to be pretty simple. A limited number of channels, a limited number of shows (all airing at predetermined times) and simple, hand-held paper guides to plan out your viewing schedule. Yeah, things have changed a little. “Now we have hundreds... More