Avanti Screenmedia

Automated processing of news media for shopping centre displays.

Automating the curation of positive news stories to be broadcast on large displays in shopping centres.

Objectives

  • Automate news curation process for large screen displays in shopping centres across the UK

  • Focus on good news stories & filter out bad news

Features

  • Standalone content server (based on a custom CMS platform)

  • Content filtering (to focus on good news stories)

  • Automated quality control checks on supplied content

  • Weather forecast generation from 3rd party data

  • Integration with After Effects to automate video generation process

Services

  • Develop software to automate news curation & output 20 short video bulletins daily

  • Image & video quality control

  • API development to pull content from Press Association feeds

Results

  • Project saved the work of 4 people working 5 hours a day to curate and format content

  • Significant savings of time & budget

  • Shopping Centres were provided with content much earlier in the day increasing client satisfaction


We get pretty excited* about the various cunning ways we've found to solve clients' challenges and create efficiencies over the years, so if you'd like to chat to us about any of them, we're always up for that.

*...but do tell us to pipe down if we geek out too much (we're used to that from our friends and family).