DURHAM, N.C. – Digitalsmiths, the leader in personalized video discovery solutions, today announced that Foxtel has selected Digitalsmiths Seamless Discovery® to provide metadata management in support of its subscription television services. Digitalsmiths Seamless Discovery will support a variety of Foxtel services across its broadcast and IPTV platforms.
Digitalsmiths Seamless Discovery and Unified Data Service™ enables personalized search and recommendations features for content across live TV, time-shifted TV, premium channels, and VOD for all connected devices.
Michael Ivanchenko, Foxtel Director of Product, said, “After extensive evaluation, Foxtel selected Digitalsmiths based on its strong metadata foundation, robust set of APIs, and ability to deliver, manage and host a fully integrated content discovery solution.”
“Foxtel continues to pave the road with cutting-edge innovation, and our team is excited to partner with one of the world’s leading subscription TV companies,” said Ben Weinberger, co-founder and CEO of Digitalsmiths. “Digitalsmiths’ metadata management and personalized content discovery features provide Foxtel with the market-leading suite of products for the varying needs of its subscriber base. We look forward to being a key component in Foxtel’s ongoing commitment to deliver the highest quality experiences to their subscribers.”
Powerful content discovery solutions require hundreds of video metadata sources such as images, reviews, ratings, statistics, awards, cast, directors, schedule data, and merchandising all hidden in their own silo. Digitalsmiths Unified Data Service creates a single index where multiple video related data sources are ingested, aggregated, reconciled and stored.
Foxtel works with TMS to provide a deeper metadata foundation to enhance their subscriber experience. Digitalsmiths Unified Data Service is pre-integrated with TMS providing a seamless deployment for Foxtel.
Deployed by leading multichannel video programming distributors, consumer electronics manufacturers and second screen applications, Digitalsmiths Seamless Discovery is the industry’s most comprehensive content discovery platform powering personalized search, recommendations, social discovery, mood discovery, and sports discovery all enabled by robust data management capabilities. Seamless Discovery delivers these capabilities, as well as a suite of business management tools that Pay-TV providers can use to strategically control and personalize their video offerings.