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Muze, Inc.

Company Overview

Muze Inc. provides media information solutions, and media preview and discovery services to retailers, social networks, Internet destinations, consumer electronics manufacturers, and mobile services providers. It offers music products, such as MuzeMusic 1.0, which covers various genres of music; MuzeMusic UK, a music information database that provides commercial metadata, editorial, images, and music samples in a spectrum of the United Kingdom music releases; MuzeMusic 2.0, a music information database that provides commercial metadata, editorial, images, and music samples for albums and individual tracks; and MuzeTunes 2.0, a catalog for music preview samples. The company also provides book...

Detailed Description

304 Hudson Street

8th Floor

New York, NY 10013-1015

United States

Founded in 1990

Phone:

212-824-0300

Fax:

212-741-1246

www.muze.com

Key Executives

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Age: 47
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operations Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Vice President of Product Management and Marketing
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2009.

Key developments for Muze, Inc.

Muze Announces Video Media Information Solution, MuzeVideo(R) 2.0

Muze Inc. announced the general availability of MuzeVideo(R) 2.0, the next generation of its video media information solution. MuzeVideo 2.0 contains normalized commercial metadata, rich editorial and streaming media for film, video and TV entertainment products. MuzeVideo 2.0 is a comprehensive repository of rich descriptive data, editorial and relational content and streaming trailers that cover more than 300,000 movie, television DVD and previously available VHS titles. A unified and consistent approach to managing data in MuzeVideo 2.0 enables companies to easily link related entertainment products and services, seamlessly integrate Muze data with 3rd party content management systems, social networking applications and commerce engines, and is ideal for expanded search and discovery, social recommendation and personalization engines. Key new features and solution highlights include: Expanded biographies; Greater film coverage and ratings; TV series coverage; Modular data packages.

Muze Inc. Launches MuzeVideo 2.0

Muze Inc. announced the launch of MuzeVideo(R) 2.0, the next generation of its video information product suite. MuzeVideo 2.0 offers normalized commercial metadata, rich editorial and streaming media for film, video and TV entertainment products. Leveraging MuzeVideo 2.0, social networking sites, Internet destinations, and mobile service providers can integrate the information into their offerings to attract and retain subscribers, and retailers can engage consumers and promote sales of movies and related products. MuzeVideo 2.0 is a comprehensive repository of rich descriptive data, editorial and relational content and streaming trailers that cover more than 300,000 movie, television DVD and out-of-print VHS titles. MuzeVideo 2.0 is part of a broader suite of Muze media information solutions for video, music, games and books and was purpose-built by Muze as the industry's only unified entertainment metadata structure. This unified and consistent approach to managing data enables companies to easily link related entertainment products and services, seamlessly integrate Muze data with 3rd party content management systems, social networking applications and commerce engines, and is ideal for expanded search and discovery, social recommendation and personalization engines. MuzeVideo 2.0 contains thousands of new contributor biographies and nearly 750,000 new descriptive attributes, deep genre categorization, extensive categorical keywords, and hyperlinking to similar titles (Similar Cinema). Flexible delivery options include ASCII, UTF-8 and web services-ready XML feeds, for rapid deployment and seamless integration with a company's existing infrastructure. MuzeVideo 2.0 is available in three unique data modules, allowing companies to use data that is most relevant for their business: MuzeVideo(R) 2.0 Elements--includes top line commercial metadata including title, cast and crew listing, UPC, genre, front cover art and DVD special features; MuzeVideo(R) 2.0 Extended--includes expert editorial, biographies, reviews, awards and detailed classifications; MuzeVideo(R) 2.0 Illustrated--provides streaming video trailers, interviews and outtakes in industry standard formats.

Muze Inc. Announces General Availability of MuzeMusic(R) 2.0

Muze Inc. announced the general availability of MuzeMusic(R) 2.0, the next generation of its music media information solution. MuzeMusic 2.0 is a comprehensive music database that covers 100% of all commercially available album releases. MuzeMusic 2.0 contains normalized commercial metadata, expert editorial content, artist images, and music samples which enable companies to attract and retain subscribers to Internet destinations, mobile services, and social networking sites and to increase their sales of entertainment products--such as tracks and albums.

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