EIDR serves as a universal language for the entertainment industry, providing a unique and persistent identifier for every film, television episode, and other forms of audiovisual content. Whether you’re a content creator, distributor, broadcaster, or researcher, EIDR empowers you to streamline your workflows, enhance content discovery, and deliver immersive experiences to audiences worldwide.
Explore a few of our use cases to discover the transformative power of EIDR in action. Check out how EIDR plays a pivotal role in driving efficiency, accuracy, and innovation within the entertainment ecosystem.
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Google Play
Global Content Distributor & Digital Marketplace
Use Case
What is it?
EIDR's Role
Who Benefits?
Google Play, also known as the Google Play Store and formerly the Android Market, is a digital distribution service operated and developed by Google.
When a content creator delivers content with corresponding metadata, the EIDR ID is one of those data elements. This allows Google to automate much of the process of getting the content onto Google platforms, while matching it with the appropriate version for consumers worldwide.
Google Play Customers
Google
Content Creators
Movie and Television studios
BB Media
Data Science & Metadata Provider
Use Case
What is it?
EIDR's Role
Who Benefits?
BB Media is an award-winning data science and market research company, specialized in Media & Entertainment. BB Media monitors over 4,400 streaming services across 250 countries, their prices, plans, bundles and commercial offers, plus, all their libraries of movies and series, including normalized metadata.
EIDR is one of the many sources used by BB Media to validate and normalize the data that they collect and provide to their customers. EIDR’s data quality is unmatched, and that helps BB to share the stories that the data is telling them.
Streaming Services
Networks
Programmers
TV providers
Agencies
Advertisers
Studios
Distributors
Content Discovery APPs Technology Companies
SAAS Platform
Use Case
What is it?
EIDR's Role
Who Benefits?
Fabric is a cloud SAAS platform that allows customers to manage editorial, technical, and other metadata about TV shows, movies, documentaries, games and more. Fabric provides the entertainment industry with the world’s best data solutions, helping them to connect people with the content that they love, from the biggest Hollywood Studios and VOD streaming platforms to independent distributors, agencies and video game publishers.
Fabric comes with an EIDR integration out of the box, which saves time and money for customers. With EIDR at the heart of the platform, the process of registering EIDR IDs and using them to deduplicate titles and versions is simplified and seamless. Fabric allows metadata teams to merge the data from EIDR and other metadata providers with their own internally curated data sources, giving them the most complete picture possible.
Fabric Customers
Media & Entertainment
Companies
Movie and Television studios
Streaming Customers
Television Viewers
Movie Watchers
The Media & Entertainment Industry
Podcast
Use Case
What is it?
EIDR's Role
Who Benefits?
Classroom Caffeine is an educational research podcast. In each episode, listeners hear from a leading education researcher or practitioner who shares what they want others to know about their work. Each conversation offers new insights into research, teaching, and learning.
EIDR provides a unique identifier for the podcast and each of its episodes. This provides an identifier which can be used in citations and provides guests a way to be credited for their appearances in the podcast.
Podcasters
Educators
Students
Researchers
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