The Viacom18 Startup Engagement Program – VStEP is an initiative by Viacom18 to collaborate with growth stage Startups to step forward together in the fast-evolving world of Media and Entertainment.
VStEP is a pilot-driven program wherein select Startups will get to work with internal business units of Viacom18 and jointly deliver innovation pilots across various business operations, verticals and functions.
Please feel free to reach out to us at vstep@viacom18.com for any further queries & clarifications.
Please feel free to reach out to us at vstep@viacom18.com for any further queries & clarifications.
The Media & Entertainment industry is fast-evolving and constant innovation within different parts of the value chain is the only way forward. Keeping this in mind, we are open to looking at innovative products which can directly impact different parts of our business.
We are looking for offerings that may:
Include innovations in the field of content creation, marketing, distribution & monetization.
Allow us to engage better with viewers and end consumers by creating better experiences on air, online, on ground & in shop
Help us strengthen our business partnerships with advertisers, distributors & other business partners.
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Content and Content rights are the most significant assets / inventory of a media company. We are looking for systems and solutions utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence, that assist in review and abstraction of content rights along with other relevant data from contracts to be inputted into our Rights Management System. This can include:
We can use the existing information in rights clauses and soon to be developed contract lifecycle systems to enhance the machine learning component of the Solution.
This proposed offering would need to speak to Rights Management System which is based on Dot Net and a future contract lifecycle management system as and when launched.
Viacom18 has witnessed an accelerated growth over the last few years and it continues to produce and acquire great programming and content for its channels and OTT platforms. Being a socially responsible broadcaster and content producer, Viacom18 ensures that the content broadcasted/exhibited on its channels and platforms is socially and culturally acceptable and adheres to regulatory and legal norms.
We foresee significant increase in the volume of content being generated in the near future and with the objective to enhance the efficiency of the Content Regulation process, we are looking at systems/solutions leveraging voice, video, image recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions that can assist in:
a) Minimizing time taken in content review and thereby reduce time taken between production and review/final broadcast version to manage more content reviews in the same duration and facilitate better review of near-live content.
b) Mitigating risks of breaches and assist with thorough compliance of relevant laws, regulations and practices in various countries
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In a data centric world, organizations are leveraging emerging machine learning tools, including the digitally evolving media industry, to take data driven decisions. We are looking for offerings that will allow us to enhance our content & consumer insights engine to assist in:
A - Analyzing social media data and activity pertaining to our shows (and that of competitors) to get lead indication into popularity of shows and to obtain consumer insights including:
*Viacom18 currently uses a social listening tool to gather data and are now looking to layer this with an analytical engine to generate consumer and content insights
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