Metadata & DiscoveryThe copy you don't notice. The content you find because of it.
Some of the most important OTT copy is never advertised. It helps you find what to watch next.
Disciplines
- Metadata
- Search
- OTT
- UX Copy
- Content Discovery
- Platform Strategy
- Role
- Metadata strategy · Narrative frameworks · Competitive analysis
- Channels
- Platform · Search · SVOD / TVOD
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Context
The unglamorous surface.
On a platform, the description field is not documentation. It is the pitch. It runs before the trailer, before the poster does its work, and before anyone has decided to spend two hours with you. Most of it is written as admin.
- 02
The Challenge
What needed solving.
A catalogue is only as good as what an audience can find in it. Titles compete for attention against everything else on the home screen — and against everything a search box might return instead.
- 03
The Idea
Some of the most important OTT copyis the copy you never notice.
Metadata is a writing problem wearing an operations costume. Treated as narrative, it changes what gets surfaced and what gets understood.
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The Fields
- 01Title
- 02Synopsis
- 03Description
- 04Keywords
- 05Context
- 06Discoverability
Each field is a decision about how a story introduces itself. Together they are the first impression, before play.
- 05
Execution
The work itself.
- Curated and optimised metadata across SVOD and TVOD titles to improve discoverability.
- Conducted competitive analysis of OTT metadata structures.
- Evolved narrative frameworks for Originals and D2D content.
- Positioned content for search, relevance and recommendation.
- 06
Impact
Supported outcomes.
Metadata strategy curated across 200+ SVOD/TVOD titles, contributing to roughly 30% improvement in search visibility and content discovery. No revenue impact is claimed.
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What This Demonstrates
The transferable bit.
- Platform expertise that sits beneath advertising rather than beside it.
- Editorial judgement applied at catalogue scale.
- Copy measured by whether it gets content found, not by whether it wins a room.
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