The company operates a media production company specializing in creating social media content and advertisements. Their clientele includes large corporations from the luxury and automotive sectors, as well as individual entrepreneurs who require personal branding videos. The team manages a diverse portfolio of video assets, including stock footage and custom-shot content, to support multiple ongoing projects.
Existing Workflow
Currently, the company stores most of their footage on Google Drive and uses Frame IO for video review and approval processes. Different team members rely on manual searches to locate specific clips or types of footage. There is no centralized media asset management (MAM) solution in place, which means searching for content—especially specific subjects like athletes or CEOs—is time-consuming and inefficient.
Issues with the Existing Workflow
Difficulty locating specific footage, especially when unfamiliar with the content domain (e.g., identifying African soccer players in stock footage).
Manual search processes that require a knowledgeable team member’s involvement to find relevant clips for commercial and company presentations.
Inefficient collaboration workflows due to dispersed storage and review tools (Google Drive and Frame IO).
No easy way for companys to access and browse footage online without downloading large files.
Challenges with tagging and categorizing footage, particularly around complex AI recognition of faces, text, and motion design content.
How Shade Would Change Their Workflow
Shade’s AI-powered media asset management platform would centralize all video content and automate tagging using advanced AI models capable of facial recognition, transcription, and object detection—even in challenging contexts like diverse skin tones or specific jersey numbers. This would enable quick, precise search queries such as finding all footage of a particular athlete or CEO interviews by keyword or visual tag.
Shade also allows companys to access and scrub through footage directly from the platform without downloads, streamlining review and approval processes. Comments and change requests can be consolidated in one place, reducing reliance on multiple tools. By replacing Google Drive and Frame IO with Shade, the company would gain a unified, efficient ecosystem tailored to their production needs.
Benefits
AI-driven tagging and search reduce time spent locating specific footage.
Improved accuracy in identifying subjects across diverse video content.
Centralized storage and management of all media assets in one platform.
Simplified company access to footage with online preview and commenting capabilities.
Streamlined collaboration and review process enhances team productivity.
Scalability to support multiple companys and projects beyond single use cases.