ZEASN unveils movie database and recommendation engine

ZEASN Unveils New Product WhaleTime

BEIJING, June 12 2020 – ZEASN, the world’s leading provider of OTT and Smart TV solutions, today unveiled WhaleTime, a brand new global Internet movie database, as well as a unique intelligent algorithm recommendation engine.

As a complete one-stop viewing solution, WhaleTime hosts the world’s most comprehensive and professional film & TV shows information network map, including movie ratings, overview, plot summaries, production crew, cast list, awards, news, latest trailers, and related information etc. Through WhaleTime, users can not only quickly jump to the third-party streaming platform, search for relevant information in multiple dimensions, but also create theme lists, use community functions such as sharing and comments.

At present, there are dozens of content providers and streaming platforms cooperating with WhaleTime worldwide, including many world-renowned companies and top brands in the OTT industry. For example, in the Russian market, our partners include ivi, MEGOGO and Okko, all of which are the top OTT/VOD service providers in the region.

The presence of these high-quality content partners provides WhaleTime with massive content of film and television series, plus the intelligent recommendation algorithm system (Recommendation Portal) self-developed by ZEASN, WhaleTime can perform information processing according to different countries and regions, languages, themes, etc., and intelligently provide users with a one-stop, complete content viewing solution.

In terms of product design, WhaleTime is more suitable for smart TV users’ operating habits. Based on the concept of simplicity, practicality and elegance, WhaleTime has put a lot of efforts on UI and localization. In the details page of Film or TV Series, you can find the Movie Ratings/Score, Full Cast and Crew, Storyline, etc.

Users can quickly browse the latest trailers or watch the video clips, the system will automatically show the user the menu that can jump to the corresponding streaming media platform according to the source of the video content, which is convenient for users to directly watch their favorite content.

In the search function, WhaleTime perfectly integrates the Recommendation Portal, providing users with a simpler and faster search portal, making searching for video resources easier.

Now we have only released the WhaleTime service in the Russian market, but late this year we are going to enter the Southeast countries, and LatAm area. In the near future, we will continue to introduce more top tier content partners, and gradually promote WhaleTime to all ZEASN enabled connected TVs around the world. Just like WhaleTime’s slogan “A Whale of a time!” (meaning “Enjoy yourself very much”), we want to make our users around the global feel the charm of WhaleTime.

The launch of WhaleTime has enriched ZEASN’s product line and brought fresh vitality into our Whale Ecosystem. We believe that WhaleTime can help our partners in the ecosystem to provide more intuitive and intelligent content services, create more value, and most importantly bring an extremely friendly and creative home entertainment experience to smart home devices consumers around the world.