Fuse Metadata Manager helps some of the world’s largest media companies break down the silos that separate their linear and digital worlds, providing a title-centric view of their content supply chain. FUSE Metadata Manager THE CHALLENGE: Metadata sits at the heart of today’s media supply chain, playing a role in everything from user experience and content discovery through to monetisation and delivery. Whether it is descriptive, technical, editorial or insightful metadata, broadcasters, operators and MVPDs alike need to ensure that it is as accurate, rich and well-organised as possible. This is no easy task. Today, that supply chain is bigger and more complex than it has ever been. Technical formats have changed, business models have been transformed, and delivery methods have diversified. Even within the same organisation, metadata can sit in many different silos - meaning that there is no clear understanding of its quality or consistency. Because of this, media distributors can find themselves faced with: An over-reliance on manual effort Editorial staff spend too much time sourcing, correcting and managing data when they should be focusing on creating a great customer experience. Inconsistent metadata Vital content metadata may be missing or incorrect, causing the viewer experience to suffer. Duplication Multiple versions of the same title may exist within a content catalogue: linear, VOD and multilingual versions of a title may all exist in isolation from each other. Silos Unique – and conflicting – content data may be held within different departments within the same organisation. VOD and linear versions of the same title may be completely separate. A lack of scalability Complex legacy systems and processes make growth and expansion harder than it needs to be, and costs are hard to predict. [••!!##!•]
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Fuse Metadata Manager helps some of the world’s largest media companies break down the silos that separate their linear and digital worlds, providing a title-centric view of their content supply chain.
FUSE Metadata Manager
THE CHALLENGE:Metadata sits at the heart of today’s media supply chain, playing a role in everything from user experience and content discovery through to monetisation and delivery. Whether it is descriptive, technical, editorial or insightful metadata, broadcasters, operators and MVPDs alike need to ensure that it is as accurate, rich and well-organised as possible.
This is no easy task. Today, that supply chain is bigger and more complex than it has ever been. Technical formats have changed, business models have been transformed, and delivery methods have diversified. Even within the same organisation, metadata can sit in many different silos - meaning that there is no clear understanding of its quality or consistency.
Because of this, media distributors can find themselves faced with:
An over-reliance on manual effortEditorial staff spend too much time sourcing, correcting and managing data when they should be focusing on creating a great customer experience.
Inconsistent metadataVital content metadata may be missing or incorrect, causing the viewer experience to suffer.
DuplicationMultiple versions of the same title may exist within a content catalogue: linear, VOD and multilingual versions of a title may all exist in isolation from each other.
SilosUnique – and conflicting – content data may be held within different departments within the same organisation. VOD and linear versions of the same title may be completely separate.
A lack of scalabilityComplex legacy systems and processes make growth and expansion harder than it needs to be, and costs are hard to predict.
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THE SOLUTION:
Fuse Metadata Manager is a powerful, easy-to-use and highly configurable answer to these challenges.
Purpose-built to meet the varying and intensive demands of the media industry, it is an agile, scalable system that provides a clear and coherent view of an organisation’s content metadata.
By providing a centralised view of asset processing and the delivery workflow, Fuse Metadata Manager brings order to the entire content lifecycle.
Ingest, normalisation and matchingFuse Metadata Manager enables high-volume ingest from multiple sources. Content metadata can be quickly and easily uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket before being normalised and given a unique ID that matches it to a relevant title within databases including IMDB, Wikidata, Gracenote and EIDR.
Deduplication and third-party enrichmentWith the metadata matched, duplicate versions of the same item (i.e. linear vs VOD) can quickly be layered into a single item. Trusted third-party data sources* can then be used to further enrich the metadata – validating quality, correcting errors, adding missing information and providing alternative assets such as synopses and posters.
Metadata creationAs well as enrichment from third-parties, Fuse Metadata Manager offers integration with other systems. This means that vital criteria such as rights and scheduling data, as well as assets including images, subtitles, closed captions and more can all be managed from with a single platform.
Validation and controlWhile Fuse Metadata Manager alleviates much of the manual burden on a user, it never takes away control. Editorial changes, feeds and catalogues are all managed via a clean and easy-to-use admin console, providing clarity and control over your metadata.
Publication and syndicationIngest once, deliver to many. Fuse Metadata Manager allows you to publish content updates to consumers and syndication feeds in seconds, not hours.
* Third-party data sources may include the customers’ own or companies from Piksel’s Metadata Ecosystem, a group of metadata and recommendations providers.
KEY FEATURES:
Effortless ingestTake the pain out of getting content into your catalogue with scriptable ingest across multiple different data formats. Fuse Metadata Manager integrates with Amazon S3 Buckets, allowing for quick and easy high-volume ingest of data files.
Advanced ID matchingWhen you ingest data into Fuse Metadata Manager, the system automatically matches it to corresponding identifiers in databases such as IMDB, Wikidata, Gracenote and EIDR.
Low-latency publicationWatch the changes you make go live in mere seconds. Whether you’re editing metadata editing or managing feeds, Fuse Metadata Manager pushes updates to your viewers in near-real-time.
Beautiful and easy to useBright, clean dashboards and editing interfaces make it easy to organise huge volumes of data. From drag-and-drop ingest to field-based editing, we make it easier than ever to manage your metadata.
KEY BENEFITS:
Create a single source of truth
Break down silos, remove duplicates and create consistency between linear and VOD. Fuse Metadata Manager gives you a single centralised system that provides everyone in your organisation with true insight into your content metadata.
Make it easier to share and access data
Put an end to purchasing data you didn’t know you already had. Simple dashboards and editorial controls make it easy for you to share data and govern access and administration rights.
Improve your customer experience
Higher quality data makes for a richer, smoother viewing experience. Not only does Fuse Metadata Manager help you tackle inaccuracies and
inconsistencies, it frees up editorial resource to focus on create a more compelling end-user offering.
Cut time spent on manual tasks
Why waste hours sourcing and editing content metadata when Fuse Metadata Manager can do it for you? ID matching against major third-party databases makes it easy to bring in high-quality title information with minimal manual effort.
Scale at speed
Get ready for the era of infinite content with an infinitely scalable metadata management platform. Fuse Metadata Manager’s cloud-native architecture means that it’s always ready when you need it – and isn’t an expensive wasted resource when you don’t.
WHY CHOOSE PIKSEL FOR YOUR METADATA MANAGEMENT?
For more than two decades, Piksel has been designing, building and managing technology solutions for some of the world’s largest broadcast and media organisations. We built the first commercial pay-OTT service in Europe and the first online TV platforms in the Middle East and North Africa.
Today, we are wholly focused on metadata and its importance to the continued evolution of the media supply chain. We help customers around the globe manage, monetize and maximise the value of their metadata.
Contact us to find out how we can do the same for you.
ACCREDITATIONS
Piksel is a trusted technology partner, assured through ISO, FACT and DPP accreditations and a highly accredited managed service organisation.
