Industry

AI use cases in media and entertainment

Publishers, broadcasters, streaming and gaming companies: content operations, personalization and audience service.

Use cases
6
Deployments
14
Organizations
14
Outcome disclosed
43%

6 Media and entertainment use cases

14 organizations in 8 countries run these use cases in public. 43% of those 14 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

Media and entertainment

AI answer engine for readers built on a publisher's own journalism

A generative AI search and answer tool on a publisher's own site or app that answers readers' questions only from that publisher's published journalism and archive, cites the articles it used, and declines to answer when its own reporting does not cover the question.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Autonomous
Cross industryTravel and hospitality

AI marketing personalization at scale

AI that runs marketing campaigns at the level of the individual: it decides for each customer which product, offer, message or content to show next across email, app, web and paid media, and generates the matching copy and creative variants within brand and compliance rules. It is the marketing team's engine across many campaigns and channels, not an agent that converses with the customer.

Deployments
7 public, best grade B
Reported conversion uplift
30%
Catchtable, vendor claim
Media and entertainment

AI metadata tagging and indexing for media archives

AI that watches and listens to a broadcaster's or publisher's video and audio archive and generates rich, structured metadata, such as what is shown, who appears, spoken content, on screen text, logos and objects, so that content makers can find and reuse footage through natural language search instead of relying on the sparse, inconsistent tags an archive accumulated by hand over decades.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Copilot
Media and entertainment

AI recommendation and personalization engine for streaming and media

A recommendation system that decides, for each individual viewer or listener, what to show next on a home page, in search or in a personalized playlist, learned from that person's own viewing or listening history, ratings and context, and continuously updated as new content is added and behavior changes. It ranks the catalog's own content; it is not the marketing engine that decides which offers or campaigns to send, which is a separate use case in this library.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Autonomous
Media and entertainmentEducation

AI transcription, subtitles and captions for audio and video

AI that transcribes recorded audio and video, such as podcasts, broadcasts, lessons, interviews and hearings, in several languages, separates the speakers and produces timed transcripts, subtitles and captions for a human editor to check, delivered as files for publishing or the archive.

Deployments
5 public, best grade C
Reported cost reduction
50%
Warner Bros. Discovery, vendor claim
Travel and hospitalityMedia and entertainment

AI visitor and tour guide for cities, museums and events

A location and context aware AI guide, often spoken, that tells visitors of cities, museums, heritage sites and events the stories behind what is around them and answers their questions in their own language, grounded in the organization's curated content and in the visitor's position or the object they scan.

Deployments
4 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Autonomous

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AI use cases in media and entertainment: the playbook

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What the evidence says

Computed from the 14 public deployments behind these use cases at media and entertainment organizations. Numbers update with every checked record.

Deployments by stage
  • Pilot
    1
  • Production
    10
  • Scaled
    3
Public deployments by region
  • Europe
    5
  • North America
    5
  • Asia Pacific
    2
  • Global
    2

Organizations with a public deployment

Art Basel, Ateme, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Bloomberg Connects, Financial Times, Netflix, Inc., Pacers Sports & Entertainment, Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE), Spotify, Square Enix, Sveriges Television (SVT), TIME, The Washington Post, Warner Bros. Discovery.

The same use cases in other industries

9 public deployments at 9 organizations outside media and entertainment run these use cases too. They are not counted in the numbers above; each use case page shows them.

Other industries