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.
Country Of Origin	MEC	Yes for France
Primary Spoken Language	MEC	Yes for France
Original Language	MEC	Yes for France
Work Type Detail	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
Episode	Country Of Origin	Episode MEC	Yes for France
Episode	Primary Spoken Language	Episode MEC	Yes for France
Episode	Original Language	Episode MEC	Yes for France
Episode	Work Type Detail	Episode MEC	Yes for France
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