vidrovr, nyc media lab combine demo day
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Videos 1995 A.D.
Videos TodayQuantity
400+Hours of video uploaded per minute to YouTube
2BViews of videos per month for a media company
217MU.S. viewers of digital video
78.4%Internet users who watch video
Videos TodayViewers
$6B Spent on online video ads (2016)
38%Share of online videos watched which are ads
Videos TodayRevenue
Problem
But, video content is REALLY hard to
search and leverage
Companies are sitting on a gold mine
of video content…
The ReasonsManual metatagging is expensive and time-
consuming.
Internal video content management systems (CMS)
and recommendation software underwhelm.
110+ customer interviews
Current Solutions
Metadata Generation
“I literally have conference rooms filled with people who tag our videos all day. I want my
conference rooms back!”- Media Executive
Search & Recommendation?
“We’ve tried a lot of services, but we haven’t beenable to find a CMS that allows us to quickly
find and use our video clips.”- Video Management, News Company
Automatic video metadata generationAPIs in AWS | GCE
Editor suite to integrate various in-house mediaPlugins to make it seamless (Browsers + CMS)
Linking videos to social media (UGC)Hashtag-content linking
Leveraging customer insightShadowing writers+ editors
Addressable Needs
Our Solution
News Rover
Analog or digital ingestion100 hours of video per day
12|100 simultaneous channels
Server Pipeline
Event detectionVisual speaker detection
Cross media analysisStory linking
ML + CV
Awards1st Place Grand
Prize ACM MM
2nd placeNYC Media Lab Annual Summit
Demo Competition
Best Demo Greater New York Area Multimedia
and Vision MeetingDemo:
http://bit.ly/1Warukc
*Patented by Columbia
APIs, Front endFront facing APIs /
stack Visualizations
Market
Manual service currently being paid by a media company:
$360,000 | month~50 contracts
$216M | year
Metadata Generation
Standard CMS for company: 3M/year
$150M | year
Media/Video CMS
~50 companies
21.9% 5 year CAGR
18x CTR Over banner
ads
x2 $/AdVideo ads cost way
more
Format Key to Mobile
& Social engagement
Online Video Ads
2013 2015 2017 2019
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6
9
12
Billio
ns
Competitors & Partners
CompetitorsVisual Tagging Video/Media CMS
Customized Deep Learning Solutions
Multi-Source and Trending TagsRapid Deployment
Extensible to Specific DomainsPrivate Protected Data
man, business, campaign, U.S.A., politics
Partners
Team
Co-Founder Technical AdvisorCo-FounderEducation:
BS+BA University of San DiegoMS/PhD Columbia University
NSF GFRP Fellow
Education:BS University of California, LAMS/PhD Columbia University
NSF GFRP Fellow
Richard Dicker ProfessorComputer Science and EE
Senior Vice Dean
Leading researcher in multimedia, computer vision, and machine learning since
1990’s
Corporate Experience: Corporate Experience:
Skills:Computer VisionMachine Learning
Software Development
Skills:Machine Learning
Software DevelopmentUser-Interfaces
Management Team
Special Thanks to Our Columbia Colleagues: Brendan Jou and Hongzhi Li
Our Designer and Branding Specialist: Shakti MB