The media and entertainment (M&E) industry is large, bringing in more than $2 trillion dollars annually. In addition to being a significant financial engine, the industry also represents a primary source of cultural identify and collective memory for people around the world. ... More

LAS VEGAS — EIDR members could be found all over the show floors of the 2023 NAB Show. Here’s what a few of them had to share: Luminate Entertainment data and insights firm Luminate made waves at NAB with the release of its flagship “Entertainment Diversity Progress” re... More

Thanks to the work of engineers at Google, Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR)-enabled assets are gaining more visibility in search results, as MESA reported in March. There were already many benefits to having content registered with an EIDR ID. Among those benefits: eliminating c... More

The work EIDR has done with Google, the major addition of Gracenote to the EIDR board, global expansion efforts, and the latest on the Cloud Localisation Blueprint. Major things have been afoot in the world of EIDR, and all of them will be discussed May 23 at the EIDR Annual Part... More

Gracenote, the content solutions business unit of Nielsen, has joined the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) board. The organizations will partner on new ways to help the media and entertainment industry improve workflow efficiencies through automation, drive program discoverabilit... More

The French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) was developed in the late 1950s and carried on through the 1960s. The first major cornerstone of the New Wave was Alexandre Astruc’s article, “The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: The Camera-Stylo[1]”, published in L'Écran in 1948. The ma... More

EIDR’s Annual Participant Meeting (APM) is coming to Los Angeles May 23, co-located with the Hollywood Innovation & Transformation Summit (HITS) Spring event. Past EIDR APM events have seen presentations on the quest for identifier interoperability, the benefits of EIDR-e... More

By Bruce Devlin, founder, Mr MXF, former standards VP, SMPTE. Everywhere you look in the media industry now, you’ll find the word metadata being used. Consumer experience is navigated with it. Supply chains depend upon it. AI workflows generate boat loads of the stuff and we h... More

Normally, in this space we talk about movies and television program linked by some sort of unifying theme. This month, we’re going to talk about programs that talk about programs: specifically, podcasts dedicated to media & entertainment. Podcasts[1] are essentially talk r... More

Two of the top voices in entertainment intelligence took the stage Feb. 28, during the conference session “Languages, LMT, and the “EID”R of the beholder,” at the Innovation and Transformation Summit (ITS): Localisation event in London, to discuss the importance of stan... More