Ascent Media’s Digital Asset Management Solution Selected as 2010 Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Award Winner

Ascent Media Group, LLC announced today that its Viia digital asset management (DAM) solution was selected as a 2010 Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Award winner. The innovative DAM solution is relied upon by a range of media, communications and distribution customers, including cable & telco operators, advertising agencies and several of the world’s major movie studios, to efficiently manage and monetize on-demand content on multiple platforms.

With its massive storage and metadata tracking capabilities, Ascent Media’s DAM solution was initially designed to meet the archival needs of advertising agencies and movie studios. However, the product features have expanded to offer a comprehensive suite of management solutions that serve a diverse set of content production and distribution customers. The DAM service revolutionizes file-based workflows, providing a higher degree of automation and efficiency in the areas of video on-demand and multi-platform reuse.

“Although developed for content producers, the DAM product is a future-proofed business-scalable solution that is also ideal for video distributors, providing a solid foundation for rapidly monetizing content in multiple formats sourced from a variety of providers, including programmers, aggregators and the Web,” said Igor Vezmar, senior vice president of product and service development at Ascent Media. “Our DAM solution coupled with other complementary Ascent Media offerings can transform VOD systems for cable & telco operators, delivering numerous cost savings and enabling them to rapidly expand their content offering to their subscribers.”

Among its many features, the DAM solution offers content aggregation and archiving, catalog management and transcoding and media processing. It is also able to package content with its metadata, enabling reliable tracking and reporting of digital assets throughout the content delivery network. The product is fully customizable to meet any organization’s content management needs and offers unmatched deployment flexibility and ease of integration.

Oracle presented Ascent Media with the award at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 in San Francisco last Tuesday. A case study, video and podcast about the DAM product will soon be available at www.oracle.com, and more information about Ascent Media’s line of content management solutions is online at www.ascentmedia.com.

About Ascent Media Group
Santa Monica, California-based Ascent Media Group, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ascent Media Corp. (NASDAQ:ASCMA). With more than 40 facilities worldwide, Ascent Media Group is a leading provider of fully integrated, end-to-end services for the global digital media supply chain. Guided by our entrepreneurial culture, we blend breakthrough creative with emerging technologies to deliver some of the most advanced and innovative media solutions to help film and television studios, independent producers, broadcast networks, cable channels, advertising agencies and other companies make, manage, move and monetize their digital media.

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