Introducing the Insight Platform

Insight by Actus is your one-stop-shop for all your broadcast media monitoring, tracking and detection needs.

With Insight, every permitted user in your organization can instantly view live or pre-recorded broadcast media, along with their ratings and demographic data, and can automatically detect content of interest such as promos, ads or pre-selected segments. Furthermore, he or she can easily create industry standard cut-to-cut clips, view and edit electronic program guides, and search for niche-specific content.

Insight can capture any number of feeds and stream the content to hundreds of attached clients at the same time.

All this is operated from a user-friendly, web based interface.

Monitoring your media has never been easier…

Insight’s ingenuity rests in its simplicity. It is comprised of an unlimited number of recording servers which also serve as streaming servers. An additional single server hosts the WEB application and Database. This streamlined system allows for Insight’s wide range of tools to operate for you at optimal performance levels.

With Insight you can really see.

Inside Insight

View all facets of your media venture. Have insight into your competitors as well. Live broadcast (free time seeking to any point in time) and pre-recorded media are a mouse click away. Simply select the channel you want to view and start watching.

At any specific time, and in real-time during actual broadcasts, Insight provides an interactive graphical representation of your rating data, as well as your competitors. The ratings are presented in any time scale, be it in hours, days or weeks, and supports all demographic groups.

The rating module provides immediate and enhanced analytical tools.

An advanced clip creator is integrated into Insight; at the touch of a button, Clips, Web Publishing and Web Content Management are available to you. This allows you to easily create clips (including multi-item clips) from actual broadcasts. The system will then assign any necessary metadata, and created clips can be immediately exported from within the system, in any format and bit-rate, and automatically published and incorporated into your website.

Actus also offers a comprehensive clip management system, complete with Actus’s award winning web player.[NEW]

Advanced Search Capabilities offer you full textual searches on all available metadata, either in the dedicated advanced search screen or straight from the main view screen; searching has never been simpler, and immediate and accurate search results are now at your disposal.

View and easily navigate through your media using the Electronic Program Guide. If a program guide is not available, you can use Insight’s very own Program Guide Editor to create one, or find a third party open source XMLTV generator – Insight will support it!

View all your channels at a glance and receive detailed alerts through our Monitor and Alerts system; if something goes wrong – be it loss of video or audio signal, frozen image, low or high audio, or any other issue - you’ll be warned (in real-time) at a moment’s notice.

Insight into AdWatch

AdWatch, a part of the Insight system, is a flexible platform that enables content producers, distributors and regulators to supervise and monitor material broadcasted by affiliates and secondary content distributors. The system can be configured to operate locally or distributed at any number of points around the world.

In order to allow the local or remote capture units to automatically detect content, the content must first be fingerprinted. AdWatch allows you to manage your reference material from any client workstation in any location, using the built-in file up-loader. Content can then be assigned to either a specific channel or all channels from a group of channels. Uploaded media files are fingerprinted and stored for later review; when directed, the fingerprints are distributed to the assigned capture machines automatically.

Schedules serve as the baseline for your reports. You can create or upload detailed schedules with various items, such as programs, expected ad-breaks or commercials, and even request a recording at a specific date and time. Furthermore, if this information is available on any other system, it can be integrated into AdWatch.

An advanced clip creator is integrated into Insight; at the touch of a button, Clips, Web Publishing and Web Content Management are available to you.Real-time is the name of the game. Get immediate alerts if the system detects specified content (in real-time, as it is being broadcasted). The alerts can be configured to show all channels, a specific group or a single channel. As the actual media is available (depending on available bandwidth) you can view and compare between the reference content and the aired broadcasts from anywhere in the world!

Generate, view and export detailed reports highlighting what was planned versus what was actually broadcasted. You can instantly access different channels, dates and times, and analyze the data according to your designation. Easy color recognition is available, as well as the reference and actual media recorder. Any report generated by AdWatch can be downloaded to your desktop in either plain text or excel format.

Instantly view and monitor your system’s health, covering the status of all your channels at all times. This crucial information can be viewed as a report concerning a single channel, a group or all channels at once. Notifications about recording status and bit rate can also be displayed, and instant alerts are automatically generated if any problem arises.

Even when the system is distributed, and works under bandwidth limitations, AdWatch allows you to view the actual broadcast from the convenience of your desktop. Just specify the desired channel, date and time, and get a complete thumbnail story board. Live streaming media can also be viewed (if bandwidth permits). Furthermore, the media you retrieve can be used for various applications such as exporting via e-mail, clip creation and data assignment, plus all other relevant functions. The media can also be used for creating new markers and fingerprints for future detections.

TOP (TV On PC)

Actus provides broadcasters the ability to take their programming immediately to the web. This is achieved by a system which records aired broadcasts 24/7, and supports automated cutting according to integrated electronic program guides, thus removing TV advertising breaks per direction. The programming segments are then available to viewers as a "live" stream with the added benefit of users being able to navigate to any point in time (much like Personal Digital Video encoders such as Tivo). This retains editorial content and allows for TV-like passive viewing while enabling the on-demand and free access nature of web content.

Web-version advertisements, as well as various ads for any targeted demographic, can be easily inserted into your programming. The new TV/ web content is attractive for all users due to its on-demand nature, and even more so for many prospective users with no TV setup available, including but not limited to dorm-residents, students, children with in-room internet, professionals in their office and any viewers without local TV access (such as users in other countries).

Insight Content Detection!

Insight’s cutting-edge content detection modules constantly monitor broadcasting channels such as radio stations, TV channels, or any other streaming source, and can automatically detect specific performance streams such as media clips and commercials, based on a very small fragment of them, e.g., loaded digital fingerprints.

Contrary to watermarking, this technology does not require any setup by the channel being monitored, nor does it rely on the availability of any metadata, and does not require any modification of the content before release.

Insight’s content detection technology will recognize a clip within seconds of it being played, eliminating the need for the entire media clip to run before it is registered. Insight can also detect subsets of the fingerprinted media, such as similar commercials of different lengths.