Chris Lennon, CEO of MediAnswers, is deeply involved in
CIMM’s Cross Platform Asset Identification initiative which seeks to create
industry standard asset identification for both program and commercial content.
In this interesting interview, Lennon explains the purpose of the initiative,
the process by which asset identification can be rolled out, how asset IDs
migrate across platforms for a specific piece of content, timelines and next
steps. He also offers some compelling insights into where he thinks the
industry is headed over the next few years.
There are four videos in this interview:
Subject Length
(in minutes)
Background (4:28)
Asset Identification (6:34)
Migration and Next Steps (5:20)
Timeline and Predictions (6:04)
Charlene Weisler interviews Chris Lennon who talks about his broadcast background and MediAnswers in this 4:28 minute video:
Chris Lennon talks to Charlene Weisler about the work he is doing with CIMM regarding asset identification. The video is 6:34 minutes:
CW: How can you scale for an industry standard asset
id? How do you get everyone to agree?
CL: That is always the challenge – it is always hard to
get everyone to agree. I think the first step is to roll out a solution and
say, “This is the standard” because that at least gives everyone something to
point to. We don’t have that today. The industry does not have a single unified
way of doing this. So we see this as the first step. It will enable people to
see the advantages of doing this and then they will hopefully volunteer and adopt.
This is not something that will be government mandated or mandated by the
industry in general. It is something that people should see the advantages of
doing. Pretty much every other business out there has faced this problem and
has addressed this problem – identifying the things that they are selling. But
our business is a little more complex. We cannot, for example, just stamp a UPC
code on our commercials like a lot people in hard goods can or put an RFID on a
commercial. So we have challenges that a
lot of other industries don’t have with that. It has become clear by the
quality and quantity of people who have dedicated time to this that this is a
real problem and there is a real motivation to solve for this. I am encouraged
by that and by the fact that we have the buy-in of the major media companies in
this. I think we have a good shot at wide spread adoption if we come up with a
workable and a reasonably priced solution to fix this problem.
Charlene Weisler interviews Chris Lennon who talks asset identification when the content migrates as well as next steps to bring a standardized methodology to the industry in this 5:20 minute video:
CW: What about competing asset identification systems
currently available out there like Nielsen or Google. How would this work?
CL: We don’t necessarily see the CIMM initiative as
directly competing with them. One of the requirements that we identified early
on is that whatever we do, we cannot interfere with existing practices that are
in place right now. We don’t want to do something that will trounce all over
the Nielsen watermark because that use is very critical to peoples’ operations
right now. So whatever we do, we see it as being complementary to whatever is
in there already. It is a requirement - we can’t step on what is already there.
Also, although this can be used as a measurement tool, this goes far beyond
that. There are other things that identifying the content will enable for
broadcasters. So that is just really a part of it, nut perhaps the most visible
use case that we’ve got.
Chris Lennon talks to Charlene Weisler about the future of media in this 6:04 minute video:
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