Banijay is the world's largest independent content creation Group for television and multimedia platforms. Banijay is present in 16 territories.
Banijay is the world's largest independent content creation Group for television and multimedia platforms. Banijay is present in 16 territories.

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  1. Banijay Entertainment Boards Moments Lab for AI Video Discovery Solution

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    Banijay Entertainment today announces it will partner with Moments Lab on the next stage of its digital transformation journey. Complementing the base and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cutting-edge hub solution launched in January, the AI video discovery platform will enable large-scale indexing,discovery, and repurposing of the content powerhouse’s 200k+-hours of archives, as well as reformatting and multi-channel distribution for its fresh and live productions.

    Powered by MXT-2 multimodal AI, and its recently announced Discovery Agent, Moments Lab’s pioneering solution will sync seamlessly with Banijay Entertainment’s existing digital asset management system to enrich its high-quality content with an incredible set of metadata, enabling it to repurpose and monetise at-scale and across channels.

    Making all materials globally searchable and accessible, the platform immediately ramps up the group’s clipping capabilities for new distribution channels. Increasing the volume, reach and monetisation of its brands on digital platforms, the offering is set to unlock further value for its world-leading catalogue. The platform, deployed by Moments Lab, will be based on AWS, with base managing the integration.

     

    Damien Viel, Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, Banijay Entertainment comments: “As Europe’s largest studio and home to the superbrand, creativity and innovation have always underpinned Banijay Entertainment’s activities. With our complementary digital transformation now well underway — from building a cuttingedge content hub with base and AWS to partnering with Moments Lab — we remain focused on collaborating with first-class technology providers who can support us in broadening the reach of our content and maximising its value in what is a hugely complex global ecosystem.”

    Moments Lab Co-founder and CEO Philippe Petitpont said: “It was clear from the beginning that Banijay Entertainment shares our pioneering mindset and bold vision for how AI indexing can unlock new creative possibilities and revenue opportunities. We’re honoured to partner with the business on such an important endeavour – helping maximise the value of its impressive catalogue of original programming.”

    Moments Lab’s patented MXT-2 AI model is trained on 1.5 billion data points and is tailored for high-volume video libraries of long, short-form and live content. Its features include Custom Moments, which are time-coded descriptions of key video moments tailored to user needs. In Banijay Entertainment’s case, it could pinpoint the most compelling scenes in a series of Big Brother; helping build viral shorts, trailers, or best-of compilations. With the addition of its brand-new Discovery Agent, users now can make requests through natural language prompts. In this way, teams can more deeply explore the catalogue of 200k-hours and receive clip and story concept suggestions to fuel the creative process.

    Moments Lab‘s AI video understanding and indexing technology analyses every moment of a piece of content. It operates via facial recognition, landmark and landscape, context, and sentiment analysis, making the entire audiovisual portfolio searchable with customisable, open-source metadata and descriptions at-scale. Moments Lab works with dozens of blue-chip media clients that rely on near-time delivery of metadata. The platform also provides multilingual transcription and translation, making all materials adaptable for a variety of new audiences worldwide.

    The news follows Banijay Entertainment’s launch of its next-generation, cloud-first content ecosystem with base and AWS. Set to supercharge the European studio’s collaborative creativity, the unified platform is powered by advanced cloud and AI technologies, and follows three simple steps – cloud migration, content hub creation and media workflow transformation. All activity is geared towards fostering creativity, transparency, security and protection for the organisation’s collective of first-class talent and IP.

  2. Banijay Unveils AI Creative Fund

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    Media and entertainment powerhouse, Banijay, today announces the AI Creative Fund, a new opportunity for producers and labels across Banijay’s 21 territories to showcase ideas with technology and innovation at their heart. This new addition to the group’s various other creative initiatives, aims to fuel and supercharge people and teams to create formats which push the boundaries of creativity using Artificial Intelligence and technology.

    The age of AI is upon us, and as it begins to shape our world, there is an increasing demand for people to create fresh, forward-thinking formats in the technology space. The new AI Creative Fund is for visionaries within Banijay who are developing ideas using tech, and those that are keen to explore the endless possibilities in the world of this new technology. Successful ideas will receive development funding via Banijay’s Creative Fund.

    James Townley, Chief Content Officer, Development at Banijay says “We’re extremely passionate about innovation, and this latest AI Creative Fund will empower our producers across the footprint to create new formats which embrace tech, whether that be central to the show, or redefining the production process. We’re in a new era of technology and innovation, and while human creativity will always prevail, it’s important to work alongside the tools which are available to contribute to the future of ground-breaking entertainment.”

    This new AI initiative is a group level investment which complements the Banijay Creative Fund, which to date has already supported the evolution of original travelling formats, Blow Up (Endemol Shine Nederland), Love Triangle (Endemol Shine Australia), The 50 (Banijay Productions France), Save the Date (Endemol Shine Finland and and Endemol Shine Israel), Starstruck (Remarkable), among others.

    In 2022 alone, Banijay was behind the launch of 200+ non-scripted titles, and 90+ pilots, and with further creative incentivisation and reinvestment on the horizon, the organisation’s supercharged pipeline looks strong for this year, with The Summit (Endemol Shine Australia), Hot Wheels (Endemol Shine North America in association with Workerbee under license from Mattel Inc.) and Rush (Endemol Shine Australia) all launching successfully and garnering further interest globally.