Warner Bros. Discovery (Nasdaq: WBD) today announces their 2025 cohort for their Innovate On The Lot Accelerator Program (powered by Amazon Web Services and ArentFox Schiff). The selected companies will have an opportunity to work with our business leaders with the goal of building strategic partnerships with WBD.
This year’s Innovate On The Lot Accelerator cohort includes:
ABLO AI is a creator-led commerce platform that enables the next 200M+ creators to design and monetize their creativity and sell worldwide in minutes, while collaborating with the most iconic brands and IPs.
Bria is an enterprise-grade Visual Generative AI Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that empowers businesses to build, customize, and deploy visual AI solutions, unlocking new revenue streams from their IP. Bria believes in a world where AI innovation is balanced with responsibility, and the technology that enhances human creativity respects data ownership. Their platform is built entirely on 100% legally licensed data with a patented attribution layer and built-in moderation guardrails that ensure copyright compliance, ethical sourcing, and commercial safety without compromising quality.
Coactive AI is a Multimodal Application Platform that maximizes the value of content by making it easy to search, tag, and analyze images and videos, especially in media and entertainment and other online industries. These companies often manage massive image and video libraries but have limited tools to find and organize what they need. Coactive helps search, organize, and analyze content at scale, without relying on manual tagging efforts.
CopySight is a first-to-market copyrighting tool for AI-generated content. It enables enterprise and entertainment studios to use AI-generated content confidently by ensuring copyrightability, identifying IP infringement risks, and safeguarding the creation process. CopySight’s core mission is to protect creators' intellectual property.
Moments Lab builds AI-native tools that let teams go from prompt to content with agentic workflows. MXT-2 analyzes live and archived video, generating human-like descriptions that unlock new creative possibilities. Mediahub centralizes your video library, auto-indexes content, and surfaces key moments instantly.
PeakMetrics is an AI-driven narrative intelligence company that helps media and entertainment companies monitor and understand the evolving narratives around their releases, intellectual property (IP), and brand reputation across the digital landscape. They use first-party datasets from social media, news, blogs, and podcasts to provide critical insights into how narratives are spreading, who is amplifying them, and where they originated. Their platform can identify potential risks like leaked content, negative sentiment impacting box office performance, and the misuse of IP, especially concerning generative AI.
Podqi is an AI-powered IP protection platform designed for entertainment companies and rights holders to monitor, surface, and act on infringements across the digital landscape. Backed by General Catalyst, Podqi enables legal and brand teams to automate detection, evidence gathering, and enforcement at scale - including unauthorized e-commerce listings, impersonating domains, and more. Built for enterprise workflows, Podqi combines proprietary image recognition, platform integrations, and risk-based prioritization to reduce manual workload and maximize impact.
SourceAudio is the music industry's premier licensing marketplace, connecting licensors and licensees at unprecedented scale as the industry's most widely adopted sync platform. Serving over 600,000 users and aggregating over 33 million songs, the platform processes 500,000 weekly searches to create unparalleled connectivity between rightsholders and content creators across global media networks, agencies, and platforms. With expertise in music discovery, delivery, tracking, and payments, SourceAudio leverages its vast collective of aggregated rights and rightsholder partnerships to streamline licensing for a variety of commercial uses.
SponsorIQ is an advanced computer vision technology company - developed from years of elite-level sports analytics - to precisely measure and value sponsorship exposure. Their AI engine evaluates every frame of live and on-demand video, quantifying on-screen brand presence, contextual relevance, and overall sponsorship performance, giving brands and rights-holders clear, actionable metrics to optimize their spend.
TV Labs transforms connected TV testing by providing instant, remote access to real consumer devices across all major TV brands, eliminating costly physical labs. Their AI-powered, vision-based automation catches UI bugs early while high-fidelity streaming ensures pixel-perfect content verification and color accuracy across diverse hardware. Integrated QoS monitoring delivers insights into app performance, load times, and ad delivery optimization, enabling teams to maximize user engagement and revenue.
ViralMoment is a video intelligence platform built for the era of social video. Powered by proprietary AI, ViralMoment decodes millions of social videos to deliver clear, actionable insights, fast. Brands rely on ViralMoment to see how they show up in social conversations, track competitors, spot cultural shifts, and uncover what truly resonates with audiences.
Wantent is an AI-powered SaaS platform that analyzes viewers' emotions to help marketers create more engaging video content and gain deeper audience insights. Going far beyond focus groups and surveys, Wantent AI tracks facial movements and microexpressions, which are then analyzed for emotional engagement across a range of 20 different emotions. Their system currently employs a robust framework of 150+ attributes for emotional analysis and content attribution.
For more information on these 12 companies please visit Innovate On The Lot - Cohort.