Leading into CES Cineverse Unveils New Branding, CTV & Voice Features for CINESEARCH, Powered by Matchpoint™
Rhea-AI Summary
Cineverse (Nasdaq: CNVS) announced CINESEARCH updates ahead of CES 2026 (Jan 6-9, 2026), unveiling new CTV and voice features powered by Matchpoint.
Key points: CINESEARCH expands commercial licensing to OEMs and streaming platforms, supports content across 500 streaming services, and searches over 75,000 films and series using an emotion-based proprietary dataset, cineCore. New features include VIDAA OS smart TV support and on-device voice authentication for household sub-accounts to protect privacy.
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Market Reality Check
Peers on Argus
Sector peers showed mixed moves, with RDI down 8.11% and MPU down 5.13% while others were flat to modestly positive, suggesting today’s CNVS strength is driven more by company-specific CES/AI product news than a broad entertainment sector trend.
Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12 | Film release | Positive | +3.4% | Unrated reboot Silent Night, Deadly Night launched on 1,600+ North American screens. |
| Nov 18 | Channel launch | Positive | +3.1% | JoySauce Network FAST channel for American Asian content launched across major platforms. |
| Nov 14 | Earnings results | Negative | -5.1% | Q2 FY2026 revenue decline, wider losses and tighter liquidity weighed on sentiment. |
| Nov 13 | Tech platform deals | Positive | -6.3% | Four new Matchpoint customers and distribution expansions failed to lift the share price. |
| Nov 07 | Earnings date set | Neutral | -2.3% | Announcement of the upcoming Q2 FY2026 earnings call preceded a modest price decline. |
CNVS has reacted positively to content and distribution wins but negatively to financial and platform-commercialization updates.
Over the last few months, Cineverse has alternated between content, platform, and financial milestones. The wide theatrical release of Silent Night, Deadly Night on 1,600+ screens and the JoySauce American Asian streaming network launch both saw modest positive price reactions around +3%. In contrast, Q2 FY2026 results and Matchpoint customer wins triggered declines of about 5–6%. Today’s CINESEARCH branding and feature expansion fits the ongoing push to commercialize its Matchpoint-powered technology stack.
Market Pulse Summary
This announcement showcases Cineverse’s push to deepen its AI-driven discovery stack, with CINESEARCH now spanning over 500 services and 75,000+ titles plus new CTV and biometric voice features. It builds on recent content and channel launches and earlier Matchpoint commercialization. Investors may watch how OEM and platform licensing traction develops and how these tools contribute to revenue and margin trends alongside the company’s ongoing capital and liquidity management.
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Award-Winning Search & Discovery Tool Uses AI to Help Movie and TV Fans Decide What to Watch in an Easy, Engaging and Entertaining Way
Powered by Matchpoint™, CINESEARCH was recently recognized as a top emerging technology tool at DEG's EnTech Awards and ranked #4 in a list of The 20 Game-Changing Uses of AI in Entertainment by Media Play News.
It is a revolutionary, AI-powered content search and discovery platform that is available to consumers (cinesearch.com) and now for commercial licensing to OEMs and streaming platforms (cinesearch.com/business). CINESEARCH aims to improve the user experiences for consumers who too often give up after spending too much time "doom scrolling" through a streaming platform's main menu then give up by offering the entertainment and television industry the ability to transform their consumer-facing services into a state-of-the-art user experience. With CINESEARCH, discovery transforms from a point of friction to a reason viewers stay longer, explore more deeply, and engage more often with the platform.
Substantial effort has been made in expanding CINESEARCH's domain-specific dataset of enriched film and television metadata. Unlike established foundational models like OpenAI or Google's Gemini, CINESEARCH does not rely on data scraped from the internet, rather it leverages a proprietary dataset optimized for advanced AI search with an automated workflow that adds new metadata days after new films are released. In addition to now supporting content spanning over 500 streaming services worldwide, the underlying dataset, cineCore, now has an expansive taxonomy of contextual metadata that spans the entire spectrum of human experience: emotions, feelings, moods and vibes. By referencing established psychological models, the extensive emotion-based metadata has now been structured into an expansive taxonomy that allows for a highly effective means of searching over 75,000 film and television series based on human emotion.
At CES, CINESEARCH will debut a new, bold look reflecting the unique and innovative search capabilities of the product, reflecting its DNA of deep contextual and emotional understanding of media.
Among the new features being introduced are:
- CINESEARCH will be live on the VIDAA OS and available on any VIDAA supported Smart TV (Toshiba, Hisense, Loewe television models). Using a mobile companion app, this reference design will enable users to create an account and pair their account with the television using their voice or mobile input.
- CINESEARCH is also launching a new voice authentication feature which recognizes individual household members by their voice. This enables sub-accounts at the household level and allows switching seamlessly between child and adult accounts, allowing a family to search and store their individual preferences for a highly personalized and relevant search experience. The biometric voice authentication data resides on the local device enforcing user privacy by ensuring voice fingerprint are stored on device without transmitting to the cloud.
"Over the past year, we've made significant advances across our entire Matchpoint platform—strengthening the underlying technology, expanding its capabilities, and proving that thoughtful innovation can solve real industry pain points, but all this is just the beginning," said Tony Huidor, President of Technology & Chief Product Officer at Cineverse. "We remain deeply focused on building practical, scalable solutions that address the challenges facing the leading media companies, film & television distributors, and video streaming platforms alike. We plan to continue pushing the industry forward with technology that is both innovative and purpose-built for the entertainment industry."
Meet the Matchpoint Sales Team
CES attendees will have the opportunity to meet with Matchpoint's key executives and sales team to receive insights into Cineverse's vision, upcoming products, and their plans for advancing the media delivery business across the entire entertainment industry.
Join Us at CES 2026
Cineverse invites CES attendees to visit the team at the Company's meeting suite at The Cosmopolitan Hotel to experience the future of content discovery. For more information or to schedule a meeting with Cineverse at CES 2026, please contact us at https://www.matchpoint.tv/contact-us.
About Cineverse Technology Group
Cineverse develops proprietary technology that powers the future of entertainment, leveraging the Company's position as a pioneer in the video streaming industry along with the industry-leading strength of its development team in
About Cineverse
Cineverse (Nasdaq: CNVS) is a next-generation entertainment studio that empowers creators and entertains fans with a wide breadth of content through the power of technology. It has developed a new blueprint for delivering entertainment experiences to passionate audiences and results for its partners with unprecedented efficiency, and distributes more than 71,000 premium films, series, and podcasts. Cineverse connects fans with bold, authentic, independent stories. Properties include the highest-grossing non-rated film in
CONTACTS
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For Investors, Julie Milstead
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FAQ
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