DISCOVERABILITY: How we will find content in our over-the-top, new media world

By Perry Hoffman

VANCOUVER – Moods, moments, sentiments, likes and trending. These may be words more commonly associated with social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, but they are increasingly becoming the new jargon when talking about finding video content in the new consumer-centric broadcast world. The first of two Discoverability Summits co-hosted by the CRTC and National Film Board explored this during an event in Vancouver on Tuesday.As Jean-Pierre Blais, chair of the CRTC, explained in his opening remarks to En Route to Discoverability: Content in the Age of Abundance, the much-talked about concept of disintermediation of traditional broadcasters has...