Content management connoisseur Mediagenix has come good on assurances that its 2024 acquisition of Spideo, developer of content recommendation algorithms, would result in some proactive product updates. Though there is still much to prove until Spideo’s services are fully embedded into Mediagenix’s customer deployments, which should bear fruit by IBC 2025. Hot off the Mediagenix feature press is Data Scan, a metadata normalization tool aiming to bring some method to the madness of media organizations and broadcasters being pelted with content from numerous external sources. Data Scan zeroes in on the rising frustration among M&E organizations about juggling inconsistent metadata across titles, which ultimately stifles personalization, monetization, and discovery—especially across fragmented FAST, AVoD, and syndication ecosystems. Mediagenix’s new metadata normalization…