All3Media International and Knox Media Hub renew their alliance

After more than seven years of collaboration, Knox Media Hub y All3Media International They renew their contract at a time when both brands are immersed in the design of faster, smarter and more efficient tools to manage and deliver metadata, a central element in the technical operations of managing and delivering multimedia files.

These new tools allow standardize metadata in all media libraries, with configurable templates and text replacement. Thanks to this alliance, users will be able format and export metadata using predefined templates for different platforms and meet specific delivery requirements, in bulk and fully integrated with automated workflows. As a previous step to the delivery of episodes and programs, a new functionality verify and approve that the metadata meets the requirements and ensures that all files meet delivery specifications. In addition, work is being done on the development of more functions for the metadata management and visualization with timecode.

AI plays a fundamental role in these developments through incorporation of multiple models strategically selected based on their specific purpose. In this way, these tools are used to scan documents of various formats to extract and map metadata to the corresponding media, translation of metadata fields for regional distribution or synopsis adaptation In order to meet specific length requirements,

Claire Feeney, director of technical operations at All3Media International, takes stock of her relationship with the team of Knox Media Hub: "When generating editorial metadata for platforms like Xumo, Tubi and Roku, we had to resort to manually extracting data from our various systems and copying it into Excel templates for each platform; time and resources have been a real bottleneck to doing more business with the platforms. Now that Knox Media Hub is integrated with all our other systems and business areas, the new metadata module allows us to collect up to 95% of editorial metadata for series and episodes and export it to templates predefined “home style,” which saves us countless hours of work.”

"We will be using some AI and ML tools that have been proven to generate high-quality results, but the key here is that the data in our systems comes from a single source of truth provided to us by the producer. In the future, we plan to deliver metadata to linear channels along with other ancillary elements such as scripts, music sheets and synopses to accompany the master and audio tracks; we hope to be able to save time for our largest broadcasters and traditional networks. (…) With this new development, we see that Knox Media Hub has truly become a strategic business enabler for All3Media International,” adds Feeney.

On the part of Knox, Santiago Miralles, CEO, sees these improvements as a “structural evolution” in the way metadata is obtained and managed across the supply chain. “We are proud to contribute our technology and our experience to support the vision of All3Media International,” he emphasizes.