Ben Weinberger, CEO and co-founder of Digitalsmiths and I caught up at the recent NABShow, with Ben explaining how pay-TV operators are using Digitalsmiths' technology to extend content discovery to mobile apps, second screen tablets and connected devices. Ben said operators began to recognize about a year ago, as TV Everywhere started kicking in, that they need to connect consumers to content in far more effective ways than just through traditional programming grids.

Digitalsmiths recently announced a partnership with Audible Magic for automated content recognition-based recommendations and also its "Social Discovery" feature which analyzes social activity to make recommendations. See video below (7 minutes, 23 seconds).