Toby Gordon, CEO of automated metadata solutions firm MetaBroadcast, is a big fan of EIDR and how the use of its IDs can benefit every corner of media and entertainment. He’s also confused as to why it’s not more popular in the UK. “Frankly, we’ve been surprised by the... More

The pandemic may have shut down Hollywood productions and pushed new theatrical releases back a year and more, but it didn’t slow down EIDR and its advancements one bit. At the April 13 EIDR Annual Participant Meeting, Richard Kroon, technical operations director for EIDR, a... More

On April 14, 1912 at 11:40 p.m., the RMS Titanic[1] famously hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic while on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. An estimated 1,517 of the 2,228 passengers and crew aboard the Titanic[2] died that night, making it the deadli... More

EIDR executive director Kip Welch and Richard Kroon, technical operations director, have been nominated in separate categories of the inaugural Technology & Operations Awards , being presented April 28 by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. Welch is a finalist for the T... More

In order to maximize AVOD revenue, streaming companies can look to tailor the viewing experience to the viewer’s interests with both the content and the platform, leading to better personalization, more views and better ad revenues. Dubbed dynamic content switching, it’s c... More

Media and entertainment organizations large and small can reduce friction and gain efficiency in both manual and automated transactions by adopting common identification standards including the Entertainment Registry Identifier Association (EIDR) and the Language Metadata table (... More

March 15 (the 75th day of the Roman calendar), famously marked as the “Ides of March” (a.k.a, the middle of March), was once best known as the date by which you had to settle your debts from the prior year (marking, as it did, the first full moon of the Roman new year). In 44... More

John Ford and I share two things in common: our birthdays (February 1 – he in 1894, me some years later) and poor eyesight (both of us with glasses, though he stepped it up a notch with an eye patch in 1955). Where we differ is that John Ford was one of the founding and most in... More

EIDR would like to congratulate the 65 different programs that shared the 125 nominations across 25 different categories in the 2021 Golden Globe Awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The 78th annual Golden Globes Awards ceremony will take place on Feb. 28... More

EIDR would like to congratulate the 52 different programs that shared the 75 nominations across 15 different categories in the 2021 SAG Awards. The 27th annual SAG Awards ceremony will take place on April 4, airing in the U.S. on the TNT television network, starting at 9 p.m. ET.... More