On January 17, 1788, HMS Supply under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip sailed into Botany Bay, New South Wales.[1] Looking for a suitable place to establish a new penal colony,[2] Captain Phillip moved north to the Port Jackson area where he was joined by the remainder of hi... More

2020 has been an interesting year: wildfires in the Australian bush; Prince Harry and Meghan Markle conduct their own Brexit; murder hornets; wildfires in the Western US; and Zoom surpassed Skype as the most popular personal Web conferencing application. That last one may have be... More

Richard Kroon, director of technical operations for the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR), and Avner Braverman, CEO of Reshuffle, brought their insights on mature APIs and taking advantage of the cloud’s ability to deploy and scale services, to the 5th November Smart Content Sum... More

October is full of important events in German history and culture, including: Martin Luther nails his 95 theses to the doors of the Hofkirche at Wittenberg in 1517. The annual Oktoberfest[1] held in Munich since 1811.[2] The birth of Friedrich “What doesn’t kill us... More

Clint Richmond, EIDR’s longtime director of operations, is leaving his post, following nearly a decade of helping guide the organization’s advancement. He will remain available to EIDR as a consultant going forward, according Kip Welch, EIDR’s executive director. “Our ... More

Hitesh Pau, director of operations strategy for Warner Bros. Entertainment, has debuted the first in a series of blogs providing instructions on how to access EIDR via the API using Python. According to EIDR, readers will see additional posts from Hitesh covering how to read a te... More

Sept. 3 marked the 75th anniversary of V-J Day and the official end of World War II (the war in Europe had ended some months earlier on May 8, 1945). Over the course of six years, some 70-85 million people died … 50-56 million as a direct result of the war with an additional 19... More

BB, a market research and consultancy considered the leader in the telecommunications and media and entertainment Industries, announced today that it joined the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) earlier this month. This membership marks a major milestone as BB is the first... More

EIDR would like to congratulate the 91 different programs that shared the 218 nominations across 36 different categories in the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards. The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony will take place on September 20, 2020, airing in the US on the ABC television networ... More

Aug. 12 marked Cecil B. DeMille’s birthday. Today, DeMille, known as “The Master of Spectacle,” is best known for his biblical epics, including The Ten Commandments (1956), Samson and Delilah (1949), and the King of Kings (1927), but his full career is the story of Hollywoo... More