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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

AI Automates Media Asset Deduplication Process

The Challenge

Our client is a global advertising analytics firm that provides insights to advertisers on the reach and effectiveness of their campaigns worldwide. The company needed to identify when duplicate copies of its client's advertisements ran on sites in different geographies to classify the type of duplication, including if content had been altered. 

The company's associates performed this tedious process manually, searching for keywords and scanning images in over a million ad-clips each month.

Our Approach

The volume of clips to be reviewed demanded significant personnel time—more than 2,000 person-hours each month—with corresponding costs. Cognizant designed a solution that leverages artificial intelligence to automate the labor-intensive process of duplicate detection and classification. Our AI solution runs on Microsoft Azure in multiple geographies and incorporates a machine-based deep learning model that becomes more effective over time. It easily scales to handle the client’s progressively larger volumes of data. 

There are two steps in the operation. First, it extracts low-level data from digital assets, such as video frames, audio and text, using various conversion models. This includes audio-to-text conversion, optical character recognition and image comparison, to process that data. Second, the solution compares and analyzes data from the original "reference" ad-clip with that of other videos suspected of being duplicates.

If it flags a duplicate, the solution provides additional information to help establish if it is an exact copy or an edited version. This information is fed into AI models to provide insights on how these clips are being used and how the media landscape is changing. The intelligence acquired enables advertisers, agencies and media owners to identify, target and reach key consumer audiences.

Machine Learning Model Provides Measurable Impact, Lowers Cost

Our solution helps our client reduce manual effort and human error while accelerating decision-making and lowering costs. It also decreases the company’s dependence on third-party systems to assess data and metadata by breaking down file data into formats for other uses, such as understanding the brand strategy of competitors and assessing market reputation.

62%

time-savings over manual process

40%

labor cost-savings through automation

~1 million

videos processed each month

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