Simply put, video search technology today does not work. Try searching for a specific video on YouTube or Google Video Search. Tens of thousands of duplicate results, spam, and irrelevant videos will appear.

With over 33M videos viewed and 182M unique viewers monthly (ComScore, May 2010) the number of videos on the web is exploding, as are the number of users with diverse tastes. Video search is the key (as text search was 10 years ago) in delivering the right content to users.

Enswers has developed revolutionary audio/video signal processing and large-scale clustering technologies that redefine media search. Our products include the Enswer.me video search engine, Soompi Asian entertainment portal, AdView online video advertising and analytics platform, Platform-V content distribution platform, and a suite of products for online content management.

Instant playback of a video matching the image
It is easy to find screenshots of TV dramas, entertainment news, sports highlights and other videos on the web these days. It is one of easy ways to share interesting content with one another without violating copyrights. If a user wishes to watch the actual video (where certain screenshots are taken from), then it takes a lot of steps, from going to another portal for video sharing, typing in relevant keywords to find the video, sorting through the search results and picking out the one that seems most similar. Simply put, it was inconvenient.

Simple and convenient : Plug-in installation
Enswers launched Image2Play to resolve this issue. Image2Play enables content providers and users to share videos online legitimately and accessibly. Because the solution recognizes images than keywords for search, a user can watch a matching video for the screenshot on the web by clicking the screenshot image on the platform with Image2Play extension.

Digital content sharing without violating copyrights
The video plays for a minute from the scene that the screenshot is from and, if a user wishes to watch more, a link to the content provider’s website pops up for purchase. This is a good publicity option for content providers and a legitimate one for users.

Enswer.me

Enswer.me is an innovative new video search engine that delivers the videos that users want.

As a consumer-destination portal, Enswer.me helps users find and discover online videos, indexing over 50M videos from around the world, including YouTube, Hulu, and Veoh in the US to Youku, Tudou, and 56.cn in China to Yahoo! and NicoNicoDouga in Japan to Pandora.tv, Daum TV Pot, and Naver Video in Korea.

Built upon our proprietary ClusterRank search algorithm and VideoFuse large-scale clustering technology, Enswer.me identifies overlapping videos, eliminates duplicate results, spam, and irrelevant videos to provide a more satisfying video search experience.

You ask, we Enswer!

Soompi

Soompi.com is a never-ending, non-stop resource for everything in Asian entertainment and fashion. It is currently one of the largest global online communities in English dedicated to Asian celebrities, music, dramas, television, film, culture and style. Our members are from all over the world because national borders are so last year (*waves hello to the peeps with the most peeps: hey USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia!*).

Platform-V is a unified platform to distribute and monetize downloaded content on webhard and p2p services.

Enswers technology provides secure content filtering and tracking to ensure copyright protection, recognition of licenses with content rules and rights, and accurate download and revenue reporting.

Content providers can reach dozens of webhard companies to maximize their distribution power and revenue streams while service providers are able to monetize previously illegal content.

Platform-V Features for Content Providers

User-generated video sites have attracted millions of users but failed to deliver viable business models, accounting for over 40% of all videos streamed online but less than 4% of revenue generated (The Diffusion Group, 2008). Content providers have treated UGV sites like YouTube as havens of illegal content, advertisers continue to refuse to place ads against suspicious user videos, and video sites struggle to generate revenue.

AdView is a content monitoring and contextual video advertising platform that enables copyrighted content to be monetized on user-generated video sites. Using AdView's content management system, content providers can easily identify their content using our keyword search, and every copy of that content available on the web is immediately identified. AdView can then automatically deliver a contextually relevant ad to all copyrighted videos in one click. Simple, effective, and profitable.

Video sites, advertisers, and content providers can now have a common platform to negotiate ad rates and content licensing rights using AdView as a secure content monitoring tool. With advanced analytics features and formatted reporting, AdView provides an efficient, automated system to track and monetize content online.

Online Content Management

Interactive TV with Smartphone

When Enswers’ audio and video fingerprinting technology gets applied to smartphones, it can precisely identify the content watched on the user’s TV in less than three seconds. The following clip demonstrates how to detect a short 15-second ad on the channel watched through a smartphone:

Audio Fingerprinting Technology

Portals and music sites can easily fingerprint audio tracks and compare to an informational database for copyright filtering or delivering accurate metadata and lyrics to users. Unlike other solutions which require the original music file, high computational resources, and are inaccurate unless the audio files are exact duplicates, Enswers has developed a scalable and efficient audio fingerprinting technology. Available with a SDK.

Duplicate Video Removal System

Online video services for user-generated content often receive thousands of video uploads per day, many of them duplicates or spam. Our system can return all overlapping videos for any video in your database, enabling sites save costs and other uses. Available with a SDK and ASP service.

Video Metadata Directory

A single video typically does not contain a lot of useful metadata, but clusters of overlapping videos can provide information such as lyrics, different languages, etc that is useful in improving video search, adding to the user experience, or analyzing video sets. Available as an ASP service.