Case study · Media

Digital Media Platform · Media · Video

An AI pipeline that tags, categorises, and summarises a video library at scale.

Computer vision and speech-to-text feeding an LLM summariser — turning a 200k-hour video library into a searchable, structured archive.

200k+hours of video processed end-to-end

At a glance

Client
Digital Media Platform · Media · Video
Headline metric
200k+ hours of video processed end-to-end
Deliverables
4 shipped to production
Stack
5+ tools across the build

The challenge, approach & outcome.

  1. Challenge

    A digital media platform's 200,000-hour video library was almost entirely unsearchable. Editors hand-tagged the top 5%; the long tail rotted. Search-driven engagement was capped because the catalogue was dark.

  2. Approach

    Built a pipeline that ingests video, runs scene detection and computer vision tagging, transcribes audio via Deepgram, and feeds the transcript + visual tags into an LLM summariser. Outputs structured metadata: scene tags, speakers, topics, summaries, and chapter markers — all indexed for search and recommendation.

  3. Outcome

    200,000+ hours processed end-to-end in eight weeks. Average processing time of 9 minutes per hour of video. Search-driven engagement up 47% because the long tail of the catalogue is now discoverable.

hours of video processed end-to-end
200k+
average processing time per hour of video
9 min
lift in search-driven engagement on the platform
+47%

Deliverables

What we shipped.

  • Video processing pipeline
  • Scene + speaker tagging
  • Search index
  • Editor-facing review UI

Stack

The tools we used.

  • Claude Sonnet
  • Deepgram
  • Computer vision models
  • ClickHouse
  • ElasticSearch

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