Enables Italy’s leading media monitor to provide TV and radio alerts and targeted search with 90+ percent accuracy in Italian audio-to-text
Fairfield, Conn. and Milan, Italy – September 12. L’Eco della Stampa, the largest provider of media monitoring in Italy and TVEyes, the leading search engine for TV and radio, announce a partnership to address broadcast media monitoring needs in Italy.
L’Eco della Stampa will implement TVEyes media processing server and user interface technologies to strengthen its highly-regarded media monitoring platform, enhancing its video service offering to include real-time alert and targeted search of national and regional TV and radio broadcasts.
L’Eco della Stampa selected TVEyes after a methodical comparison of speech-to-text technology and broadcast media monitoring providers. “TVEyes media monitoring, including Pervoice audio-to-text for Italian, was far and away the best choice to provide TV and radio search, alert and monitoring for our demanding clientele throughout Italy,” said Umberto Frugiuele, General Manager of L’Eco della Stampa.
David Ives, CEO of TVEyes, Inc. said, “L’Eco della Stampa is the ideal partner to continue TVEyes’ international expansion with its undisputed leadership position in Italian media monitoring. In the first selling month many trial users have been established, demonstrating the power of L’Eco della Stampa in this market.
About L’Eco della Stampa
L’Eco della Stampa is the undisputed leader of the Italian media monitoring market, now boasting turnover of approximately €20 million, 5,000 clients, 230 employees and offices in Milan, Rome and Genoa. The company was founded in Rome in 1901 and today is run by the fourth generation of the Frugiuele family. Its strategy calls for continuous broadening of media feeds being monitored, expanding from traditional media to web sites, social networks, audio and video and electronic unstructured sources, while developing intelligent systems enabling customers to extract strategic knowledge from the array of data and information available on their desktop. More information can be found at www.ecostampa.it/index.aspx
About TVEyes
TVEyes Inc., headquartered in Fairfield, Conn., provides online search and indexing for television and radio broadcasts, and audio and video search infrastructure for search engines. Its Media Monitoring Suite™ is in use by corporations, professional sports teams, political campaigns, elected officials and the military to provide up-to-the-second intelligence on broadcast in multiple languages for US and international markets. More information on TVEyes can be found at tveyes.com.
