Recommendations

LAS VEGAS — Digital content data provider Rovi is preparing to reboot its recommendations offering in the next few weeks. The Rovi Recommendations Service uses metadata describing the content viewers are watching to make suggestions for similar next content to consume. “Our recommendations product will be relaunched this quarter,” company product management VP Priya Rajagopalan […]

AMSTERDAM — Video services like Netflix thrive on learning about viewers and giving them targeted recommendations about next viewing opportunities. Now those recommendations are becoming more advanced. In this video interview with Beet.TV at the IBC show, Rovi product sales and marketing SVP Bob Shallow christens “search and recommendation 2.0 – effectively going to prediction as […]

LAS VEGAS — As consumers are watching vastly increasing content on digital devices, discovery of relevant content is becoming an increasing problem.  Rovi has a discovery engine that associates content by machine and human editors, explains Rovi’s Damian Francis in this video interview with Beet.TV.  We spoke with him last week, at NAB. Francis explains […]