Metadata

See what metadata are required and where we get them from

Movie Metadata Requirements

 

Item

Obtained from:

Required?

Artwork

Artwork Component

Yes

Title

MEC

Yes

Release year

MEC

Yes

Runtime Duration MEC Yes

Genre

MEC

Yes

Trailer MMC No

Description

MEC

Yes

Cast & Credits MEC

Yes

Note: Cast & crew info should be provided regardless of genre. The concept of cast and crew might be different for documentaries and musical content but credits should be as complete as possible. Additionally, currently only the People values 'Actor', 'Director', 'Producer', and 'Writer' are accepted by Google Play.

Country Of Origin MEC Yes for France
Primary Spoken Language MEC Yes for France
Original Language MEC Yes for France

Audio /Subs

MEC

Yes

Ratings

MEC

Yes for the below territories:

  • Australia
  • Bahrain
  • Egypt
  • France
  • Germany
  • Hong Kong
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Italy
  • Jordan
  • Korea
  • Kuwait
  • Lebanon
  • Malaysia
  • New Zealand
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Russia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Turkey
  • UAE
  • Vietnam 

TV Metadata Requirements

Hierarchy

Item

Obtained from:

Required?

Series

Title

Series MEC

Yes

Series

Genre

Series MEC

Yes

Series

Release year

Series MEC

Yes

Series

Audio / Subs

Episode MMC

Yes

Series

Description

Series MEC

Yes

Series 

Artwork

Series Artwork Component

Yes

Series Cast & Crew Google's Knowledge Graph, will soon require from Series MEC Yes

Season

Title

Season MEC

No

Season

Number

Season MEC

Yes

Season

Description

Season MEC

No (Does not surface)

Season

Cast & Crew

Google's Knowledge Graph

No (Does not surface)

Season

Artwork

Season Artwork component

No (Does not surface)

Episode

Number

Episode MEC

Yes

Episode

Title

Episode MEC

Yes

Episode

Date

Episode MEC (“ReleaseDate”)

Yes

Episode

Description

Episode MEC

Yes

Episode

Thumbnail

Episode thumbnail component

No 

Add’l info section

Rating

Episode MEC

For DE & FR only

Add’l Info section

Audio language

Episode MEC

Yes

Add’l info section

Subtitles

Episode MEC

Yes

Add’l info section

Info cards

Google's Knowledge Graph

No

Language codes for validation

The following language codes are used for subtitled (subbed) and dubbed content in metadata specifications.

Unsupported Langue codes can result in problems so please reach out to us if you have a question.

 

Subtitles/dubbed code Language name
aa Afar
ab Abkhazian
af Afrikaans
am Amharic
am Amharic
ar Arabic
hy Armenian
as Assamese
ay Aymara
az Azerbaijani
arc Aramaic
ba Bashkir
eu Basque
bn Bengali
dz Bhutani
bh Bihari
bi Bislama
br Breton
bg Bulgarian
be Byelorussian
bs Bosnian
ca Catalan
yue Cantonese
yue-HK Cantonese
chr Cherokee
zh

Chinese (Macrolanguage, used as an alias for Mandarin)

zh-CN Chinese (China)
zh-HK

Chinese (Hong Kong)

zh-SG

Chinese (Singapore)

zh-TW

Chinese (Taiwan)

zh-Hans

Chinese (Simplified Han)

zh-Hant

Chinese (Traditional Han)

cho Choctaw
co Corsican
hr Croatian
cs Czech
da Danish
nl Dutch
nl-BE Dutch (Belgium) i.e. Flemish
nl-NL

Dutch (Netherlands)

en English
en-CA

English (Canada)

en-IE English (Ireland)
en-GB

English (United Kingdom)

en-US

English (United States)

eo Esperanto
et Estonian
fo Faeroese
fj Fiji
fi Finnish
fil Filipino
fr French
fr-BE

French (Belgium)

fr-CA

French (Canada)

fr-CH

French (Switzerland)

fr-FR French (France)
ff

Fula, aka Pulaar, Fulani

fy Frisian
gd Scottish Gaelic
gl Galician
ka Georgian
de German
de-AT

German (Austria)

de-CH

German (Switzerland)

de-DE

German (Germany)

el Greek
kl Greenlandic
gn Guarani
gu Gujarati
ha Hausa
hak Hakka Chinese
hak-TW

Hakka Chinese (Taiwan)

iw Hebrew
hi Hindi
hi-Latn Hindi (Phonetic)
ho Hiri Motu
ht Haitian Creole
hu Hungarian
is Icelandic
ig Igbo
id Indonesian
ik Inupiak
iu Inuktitut
ga Irish
it Italian
ja Japanese
jv Javanese
kn Kannada
ks Kashmiri
kk Kazakh
tlh Klingon
rw Kinyarwanda
ky Kirghiz
rn Kirundi
km Khmer
ko Korean
ku Kurdish
lo Lao
la Latin
lv Latvian
ln Lingala
lt Lithuanian
lb Luxembourgish
mas Maasai
mk Macedonian
mg Malagasy
ms Malay
ml Malayalam
mt Maltese
mi Maori
mr Marathi
mni Meitei/Manipuri
nan Min Nan (China)
nan-TW

Min Nan (Taiwan)

lus Mizo
mo Moldavian
mn Mongolian
my

Myanmar (Burmese)

na Nauru
nv Navajo
ne Nepali
no

Norwegian (Macrolanguage)

oc Occitan
or Odia
om Oromo
ps Pashto
fa Persian
fa-IR Persian (Iran)
fa-AF

Persian (Afghanistan)

pl Polish
pt Portuguese
pt-BR

Portuguese (Brazil)

pt-PT

Portuguese (Portugal)

pa Punjabi
qu Quechua
rm

Rhaeto-Romance

ro Romanian
ru Russian
ru-Latn

Russian (Phonetic)

sc Sardinian
scn Sicilian
sm Samoan
sg Sangro
sa Sanskrit
sr Serbian
sr-Cyrl

Serbian (Cyrillic)

sr-Latn Serbian (Latin)
sh Serbo-Croatian
st Sesotho
tn Setswana
sn Shona
sd Sindhi
si Sinhala
ss Siswati
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
so Somali
es Spanish
es-ES Spanish (Spain)
es-MX

Spanish (Mexico)

es-US

Spanish (United States)

es-419

Spanish (Latin America)

su Sudanese
sw Swahili
sv Swedish
tl Tagalog
tg Tajik
ta Tamil
tt Tatar
te Telugu
th Thai
bo Tibetan
ti Tigrinya
tpi Tok Pisin
to Tonga
ts Tsonga
tr Turkish
tk Turkmen
tw Twi
uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
uz Uzbek
vi Vietnamese
vor Võro
cy Welsh
wo Wolof
xh Xhosa
yi Yiddish
yo Yoruba
zu Zulu

Genres

Movie and TV Genres

Please refer to these lists of accepted movie, trailer and TV genres when creating your XML.

Movie and Trailer Genres

You must specify at least one genre for movie assets (you can specify more than one but the first selected will determine Storefront placement.) The genres listed below in bold are valid for all movie assets on storefronts in all markets. As not all genres are available in all markets, we recommend specifying at least one genre that is universal to ensure that your content is findable wherever it's published.

 

Please note, Genre must be specified for Bundles.

 

Action & Adventure

Japanese Cinema

Adolescence

LGBT

African Cinema

Live Performance

Animation

Miscellaneous

Anime

Music

Australiana

Mystery & Suspense

Classics

Nigerian Cinema

Comedy

Period Drama (Samurai)

Crime

Reality & Game Shows

Documentary

Romance

Drama

Samurai

Education

Science Fiction

Faith & Spirituality

Short Films

Family

Sports

Fantasy

Thriller

Food

Turkish Cinema

Horror

Variety & Talk Show

Independent

War

Indian Cinema

Western

Instructional

World Cinema

TV Show Genres

You must specify at least one genre for TV assets (you can specify more than one but the first selected will determine Storefront placement) The genres listed below in bold are valid for all TV assets on storefronts in all markets. As not all genres are available in all markets, we recommend specifying at least one genre that is universal to ensure that your content is findable wherever it's published.

TV show genres are defined at the show level, NOT the episode level. 

  
Action & Adventure International TV
Animation Learning & Education
Anime Music
Beauty & Fashion Nature
Classic TV News
Comedy Reality & Game Shows
Crime Science & Tech
Documentary Science Fiction
Drama  Soaps
Family Special Events
Entertainment Special Programs
Gaming Sports
Health & Fitness Travel
Home & Garden Web Originals
Horror  

See also this table on issues with metadata that may prevent publishing

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