The award comes as no surprise given the numerous accolades the platform has received for recent implementations across ad networks.
RALEIGH-DURHAM, N.C. (September 26, 2008) – Digitalsmiths, a digital video search and contextual ad-matching company, has been named the winner of the “2008 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards” in the “Search and Indexing Platform” category. This year there were more than 200 products and services from over 150 different categories around the world submitted for the Readers’ Choice Awards. More than 4,000 Streaming Media readers voted for the awards.
Digitalsmiths search technology gives video publishers the ability to search, retrieve, publish and efficiently monetize their content by generating powerful metadata based on visual, audio, text and speech recognition. The solution indexes video with an unprecedented sense of context, nuance and intelligence. To achieve this, Digitalsmiths processes each frame of video applying a proprietary suite of visual interpretation tools including facial recognition, scene identification, object recognition and other contextual algorithms, which create a unique time-coded index. The resulting metadata becomes the foundation for a highly scalable and powerful search experience across large video libraries.
“We are extremely excited to be named the winner of the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards,” said Digitalsmiths CEO, Ben Weinberger. “Streaming Media’s recognition of Digitalsmiths’ search and indexing platform demonstrates the value of our solution and mirrors the positive response we are receiving from the industry.”
The award comes as no surprise given the numerous accolades and recognition the platform has received for recent implementations across ad networks and consumer web sites.
The winners were announced at a gala reception and awards presentation at the Streaming Media West show in San Jose, California.
About Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards
This year’s Readers’ Choice Awards presented more than 200 different products and services from more than 150 different companies from around the world. The fact that there’s so much competition for these awards is a reflection of just how many competitive solutions are now available to consumers, enterprises, and educational institutions looking for online video solutions; the fact that nearly 4,000 Streaming Media readers voted in the awards shows just how passionately they feel about the tools they’ve chosen.
About Digitalsmiths
Digitalsmiths is an innovative video search and asset management solution provider used by major Hollywood studios, web video destinations and brand marketers.
Digitalsmiths empowers content owners, aggregators, advertisers and publishers to contextually search, retrieve, publish and efficiently monetize their content by generating powerful metadata based on image, audio, text and speech recognition. The platform capitalizes on this deep knowledge of content and uses the metadata to power intuitive search results, a comprehensive asset management solution and video player with built-in reporting analytics.
Founded in 1998, Digitalsmiths is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with offices in Los Angeles. The privately held company is backed by venture capitalists including The Aurora Funds and Chrysalis Ventures. For more information please visit: www.digitalsmiths.com.