Reconciling rights and royalties breaks down when the same title carries a different identifier in every system, and when rights information is scattered, unstructured or out of date.
Media Press gives you one permanent identity per title and machine-readable rights data attached to it, plus an independent record of what actually aired. The clean, consistent base layer your reconciliation, reporting and compliance processes run on.
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What this means for your service
You can check a partner's reporting independently.
When a broadcaster or platform reports what aired and how often, you usually have to take it as given. Our broadcast record is built from our own cross-market history and calculated independently — not from the broadcaster's own report — so you can hold the two side by side. That protects you not only against deliberate under-reporting, but against the far more common honest mistake or oversight: a missed airing, a miscounted repeat, a premiere logged on the wrong date.
You see every airing, counted and dated.
For each title you can see which channels carried it, how many times and when, when it ran as VOD, and how each showing was classified — premiere, repeat or reappearance — with premieres distinguished at title, country and individual-channel level, and blackouts taken into account.
Titles reconcile instead of fragmenting.
When every partner uses its own identifier, matching usage to a contract is manual and error-prone. One permanent identity per title means a work lines up across systems, territories and periods — so reconciliation starts from a clean match, not a guess.
Rights are readable, not buried in PDFs.
Territorial rights and licensing windows arrive as structured, machine-readable fields, so your systems can apply and check them automatically rather than someone interpreting a contract by hand for each title.
Common questions
Does Media Press calculate or pay royalties?
No. Media Press is a metadata provider, not a royalty or rights-management system. We supply the identity and rights data your own reconciliation and reporting processes depend on — we do not compute payments or license content on anyone's behalf.
Can we use your data to check what a broadcaster reports to us?
Yes — this is a common use. Our broadcast record is calculated independently from our own cross-market history, not taken from the broadcaster's own report, so you can compare the two and spot discrepancies. It catches honest mistakes as much as deliberate under-reporting.
How are rights delivered — can our systems read them automatically?
Rights are delivered as machine-readable fields at event and asset level: territorial flags (linear, replay, OTT, nPVR, multiscreen, country exclusivity, sports blackout) with explicit licensing window start and end dates. They are built to be applied and checked by software, not read by hand.
How does this help us match usage to the right contract?
Every title carries one permanent identity that maps to each partner's own identifiers. That means usage reported under different IDs by different partners still resolves to the same work, so it can be reconciled against the correct licence and period.
Where does your rights and ratings data come from?
Data is classified by origin — owned, licensed, or third-party reference (IMDb, EIDR, ISAN). Age ratings are taken only from official national bodies, with the original values preserved rather than re-derived, so what you receive is traceable.
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