New Gracenote Video MCP Server brings veracity and relevance to large language model-driven content discovery
NEW YORK - September 3, 2025 - Gracenote, the content data business unit of Nielsen, today announced the launch of a new product enabling TV platforms to deliver next-generation user experiences leveraging powerful large language models (LLMs) and gold-standard Gracenote entertainment data. The Gracenote Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server connects LLMs to Gracenote's continually updated knowledge base and validates, corrects and enriches responses to entertainment queries in real-time. This ensures platforms can instantly return the most accurate and relevant information to users based on their content search inputs and discovery preferences.
Gracenote will initially roll out its Video MCP Server to enable CTV platforms and apps to benefit from the advantages of LLM-driven inference for search and discovery while mitigating their limitations. Dynamically connecting to any LLM, the product verifies and grounds responses in editorially-vetted Gracenote entertainment data. This enables advanced conversational search, highly personalized recommendations and compelling discovery journeys leveraging the world's most comprehensive collection of human-verified TV, movie and sports data.
With the Gracenote Video MCP Server, TV platforms can answer queries, recommend programming or drive tune-in based on a vast range of parameters such as:
Show me the episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine in which Jake references Die Hard.
The Academy Awards are on this week. List the 20 highest-grossing Oscar-winning films from the last 10 years.
Where can I watch the Dodgers game tonight?
In addition to powering advanced entertainment search and discovery, the product enriches LLM responses with Gracenote's related program imagery, availability information and standardized Gracenote content identifiers. This unlocks data harmonization across different sources and allows linkage to related content such as reviews, trailers and ratings making query responses more useful, authoritative and rich.
Gracenote content data and IDs have long served as the source of truth for the global entertainment industry, said Tyler Bell, SVP, Product at Gracenote. With the launch of the Gracenote Video MCP Server, we're introducing a new wave of offerings leveraging both our data and technology to help platforms solve big problems around engineering and harmonization. We look forward to helping our customers deliver elevated user experiences that position them for success against key engagement and monetization objectives in the AI age.
TV platforms today are enthusiastic about the power of AI to improve search and discovery performance in order to deepen user engagement and increase monetization. In particular, LLMs, a type of generative AI, provide the ability to create a customized and harmonized content catalog drawing on an unparalleled breadth of training material. Additionally, they enable platforms to offer useful semantic search and the ability to rank and order results against virtually any criteria a viewer or editorial team may be interested in.
But the output of LLM models, even with grounding, can be problematic. Notably, LLMs generate inaccurate but plausible responses to search queries, a phenomenon known as hallucinating. Further, LLMs are limited to information included in their training, meaning their inherent knowledge only goes up to a fixed point in time. They also lack access to visual assets tied to structured data like TV shows and movies.
The Gracenote Video MCP Server is the first product from the company's new suite of AI offerings developed to enable breakthrough content search and discovery capabilities. As consumers increasingly rely on AI and LLMs across all facets of their daily lives, Gracenote's human-verified data will serve as the source of truth for all entertainment experiences across Video, Sports and Music.
To learn more, download the free whitepaper on Gracenote Video MCP Server here.
About Gracenote Gracenote is the content data business unit of Nielsen, providing entertainment metadata, content IDs and related offerings to the world's leading creators, distributors and platforms. Gracenote has aggregated, normalized and enriched core program metadata covering 40M titles in 260 streaming catalogs in 70 languages and 80 countries. Gracenote technology enables advanced content navigation and discovery capabilities, helping individuals to easily connect to the TV shows, movies, music and sports they love while delivering powerful content analytics making complex business decisions simpler. For more information, visit Gracenote.com.
Media contact Mark Yamada
mark.yamada@nielsen.com
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New Gracenote Video MCP Server brings veracity and relevance to large language model-driven content discovery
