Search Within Radio And TV Channels With Spactor

Wouldn’t it be fantastic to know when, how often and where a term was mentioned in radio or TV? spactor is a brand new media search engine which tells you just that. Currently they are searching within more than 75 German TV and radio stations. Future versions will scan international radio and TV stations as well as podcasts and videocasts. Via speech algorithms the audio and video data is translated to text, categorised and made searchable on the site in real time.

Besides date, time and channel, the results display a snippet of contextual text and provide a short audio- or video clipping of the original source.

It is unfortunate that these snippets and clippings are rather short.

spactor actually is the poor man’s version of Bremen based mediaclipping who offer a set of business intelligence tools providing answers on information needs like how often and when is a product, a company or their CEO mentioned in the news?

The site also generates a tag-clouded zeitgeist of the most frequent words mentioned in mainstream media:

Last but not least congrats to their blognation compatible design ;-).

(This article originally was written for blognation Germany. Since blognation is gone I have reposted it here)