Key results
The company
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
abc.net.auNational public broadcaster for news, television, radio, and digital media.
Result highlights
- 1M video records analysed in 2 weeks
- 500k concurrent video segments processed
- Content search time cut from 1 hour to seconds
The story
A national public broadcaster managing 90 years of history across millions of audio and video records, ranging from vintage newscasts to raw documentary footage.
Legacy transcripts often contained vague descriptions like "cricket game," forcing journalists to spend hours scrubbing through footage to find specific clips. Thousands of hours of raw content remained undiscoverable due to inconsistent archival formats spanning nine decades.
The broadcaster integrated Gemini models into its digital archive platform to analyze video content and generate descriptive metadata at scale. The system identifies incidental footage and enables natural language search for specific visual details, such as a cricketer with zinc on their nose. A human-in-the-loop review process ensures accuracy, while automated workflows now tag new daily uploads immediately upon ingestion.
Quotes
“This work strengthens one of the ABC’s greatest assets, our archive, by making its depth instantly accessible to our journalists. By generating rich, consistent metadata at scale, we’ve opened up decades of footage in a way that supports faster discovery, sharper storytelling, and better use of this valued national resource.”