Automatic content recognition (ACR)

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The use of technology (watermarking of fingerprinting) to identify a piece of content (audio or video for instance). Watermarking adds an imperceptible and unalterable piece of code to uniquely identify a piece of content. Fingerprinting uses a reference database to match and identify a piece of audio or video content. ACR allows the integration of contextual ads.

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