Digitalsmiths, the leader in personalized video discovery technology, today announced its Seamless Discovery platform now includes Sports Discovery, an application that delivers consumers to their favorite sports teams and sporting events. With the addition of Sports Discovery, Digitalsmiths continues to lead the industry with the most comprehensive, cross-platform video discovery solution.
Digitalsmiths Sports Discovery surfaces a viewer’s favorite teams and/or sporting events that are often burrowed deep in their programming guide. Sports fans never want to miss an exciting game or highlight moment. Digitalsmiths Sports Discovery can leverage the Thuuz Sports rating engine to boost recommendations for sporting events based on the game’s excitement factor; for example, a game that is tied in overtime, or an underdog is about to beat a number one ranked team.
“Operators continue to expand their sports channel offerings, and increase their sports content selection. Much of this content is not aired on the eight to ten networks commonly searched by viewers. This creates increased frustration among consumers,” said Ben Weinberger, CEO and Co-Founder of Digitalsmiths. “With nearly a decade of experience creating live sports metadata, service providers are choosing Digitalsmiths’ Seamless Discovery because of our clear understanding of the complexity involved with managing sports metadata and ability to surface this sports content.”
Historically video service providers have been unable to manage large amounts of sports data in real-time. Now through Digitalsmiths recently announced Unified Data Service™, numerous sports metadata sources can be aggregated and converged to drive next-generation sports experiences. This capability allows operators to tap into broad sets of sports data to enhance the experience and attraction of sports related programming.
“Thuuz Sports real-time analytics constantly monitor and surface the most exciting sporting events,” said Warren Packard, CEO and Co-Founder of Thuuz. “By seamlessly incorporating Thuuz excitement ratings into their Sports Discovery solution, Digitalsmiths is making it easy for sports fans to catch all the best action in their favorite leagues.”
Digitalsmiths Sport Discovery allows video service providers to surface real-time sports data to their viewers including:
- Live Score Updates
- Pre/During/Post-Game Excitement Level
- Favorite Teams
- Real-Time Alerts
- Home/Away Team
- Game Time
- Game Channel
- Team Records
Digitalsmiths Seamless Discovery is the most comprehensive platform for personalized video discovery, offering personalized search, recommendations, social discovery, mood discovery, and now sports discovery. With support for all connected devices, Seamless Discovery filters all sources of available video content by consumers’ individual viewing preferences to surface the most relevant TV shows, movies and live events, whether that content is on live TV, on-demand or online.
At the NCTA The Cable Show this week, Digitalsmiths is demonstrating its Sports Discovery solution paired with data from Thuuz. Thuuz is an award-winning mobile and connected TV service that alerts sports enthusiasts and casual viewers to the most exciting sporting events as they’re happening. During NCTA’s The Cable Show, visit Booth 1715 in the Walter Washington Convention Center, or email sales@digitalsmiths.com to arrange a meeting at the event.
About Thuuz
Thuuz is an award-winning mobile and connected TV service revolutionizing how consumers discover and connect to sports programming. Thuuz alerts fan fanatics, sports enthusiasts, and casual viewers to the most exciting sporting events as they’re happening, leveraging advanced algorithmic analysis, social signaling, and fan preferences. Thuuz also directs fans to where they can tune into the game, whether it’s TV, web, or mobile. Thuuz’s partners include leading TV service providers, video technology platforms, wireless carriers, and consumer electronics companies.