Digitalsmiths Named finalist in Streaming Media Readers' Choice Awards

Digitalsmiths Corporation, a digital video search and contextual ad-matching company, has been named a finalist in the “2008 Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards” in the “Search and Indexing Platform” category. This year there were more than 200 products and services from over 150 different categories around the world submitted for the Readers’ Choice Awards. More than 4,000 Streaming Media readers voted for the awards resulting in Digitalsmiths being named a finalist.

Digitalsmiths search technology gives video publishers the ability to search, retrieve, publish and efficiently monetize their content by generating powerful metadata based on visual, audio, text and speech recognition. The solution indexes video with an unprecedented sense of context, nuance and intelligence. To achieve this, Digitalsmiths processes each frame of video applying a proprietary suite of visual interpretation tools including facial recognition, scene identification, object recognition and other contextual algorithms, which create a unique time-coded index. The resulting metadata becomes the foundation for a highly scalable and powerful search experience across large video libraries.

“We are extremely excited to be a finalist in the Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Awards,” said Digitalsmiths CEO, Ben Weinberger. “Streaming Media’s recognition of Digitalsmiths’ search and indexing platform demonstrates the value of our solution and mirrors the positive response we are receiving from the industry.”

Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award winners will be announced at a gala reception and awards presentation at the Streaming Media West show in San Jose on Wednesday, September 24 at 7:30p.m. at the St. Claire Hotel. The reception is open to full conference attendees, speakers, exhibitors and Readers’ Choice Awards finalists.

About Digitalsmiths

Digitalsmiths is an innovative video search and asset management solution provider used by major Hollywood studios, web video destinations and brand marketers.

Digitalsmiths empowers content owners, aggregators, advertisers and publishers to contextually search, retrieve, publish and efficiently monetize their content by generating powerful metadata based

on image, audio, text and speech recognition. The VideoSenseTM platform capitalizes on this deep knowledge of content and uses the metadata to power intuitive search results, a comprehensive asset management solution and video player with built-in reporting analytics.

Founded in 1998, Digitalsmiths is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., with offices in Los Angeles. The privately held company is backed by venture capitalists including The Aurora Funds and Chrysalis Ventures. For more information please visit: www.digitalsmiths.com.