Nothing makes recommendation engines-and every other means of profit-making leverage-go, go, go like data in its many varieties. Metadata in particular is the key to personalizing viewer experiences and optimizing content portfolios. AI plays an ever-greater role in enhancing the metadata quality and improving recommendations. As analysts focused on the M&E industry and insiders at major media companies playing critical strategic roles agree, data is also essential to understanding customer journeys and making informed decisions on how to reach and retain subscribers and, on the ad-supported side, deliver the right ads to audiences and the right audiences to brands.
Nothing makes recommendation engines-and every other means of profit-making leverage-go, go, go like data in its many varieties. Metadata in particular is the key to personalizing viewer experiences and optimizing content portfolios. AI plays an ever-greater role in enhancing the metadata quality and improving recommendations. As analysts focused on the M&E industry and insiders at major media companies playing critical strategic roles agree, data is also essential to understanding customer journeys and making informed decisions on how to reach and retain subscribers and, on the ad-supported side, deliver the right ads to audiences and the right audiences to brands.
Much discussion of AI and streaming relates to streamlining and automating workflows, but how content companies can leverage it to personalize their content and target ads more efficiently, among other monetization strategies, is another question the industry is examining closely. Chris Pfaff dives into this question with Vevo s Bethany Atchison, Warner Bros. Discovery s Dan Trotta, TVREV s Alan Wolk, and Erickson Strategy s Paul Erickson in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.
Incorporating generative AI into our workflows has the potential to impact almost everything in media technologies, and I ll examine several of the possibilities in this article.
Incorporating generative AI into our workflows has the potential to impact almost everything in media technologies, and I ll examine several of the possibilities in this article.