From product to video
Start from your brand and product details. CME helps produce scripts, narration, and vertical short-form video, so you begin with a draft instead of a blank page.
Cereus Media Engine
Brand media, made with care and published on your terms.
Cereus Media Engine (CME) helps brands create, organize, and automate short-form video content — with a human approval step before anything reaches your audience.
Status: CME is in private development and is not yet open for public sign-up.
One place for your brand's media
CME brings the work of making short-form brand video into a single, reviewable workflow — from your brand and products, to finished video, to your channel.
Everything in its place
Keep brand profiles, logos, product catalogs, product images, and generated content together, with a clear review status on every piece.
Carefully, with limits
Run defined batches of work that you start, with built-in limits and clear status. Fully unattended scheduling is planned and is not available yet.
What exists today, and what is on the way
We would rather under-promise. The features on the left exist in CME's development builds and are being tested internally. Features on the right are planned and are not available yet. [REVIEW: confirm both lists are accurate on the day this page is published.]
- Brand profiles with logo upload
- Product catalog with product images
- Content generation with a review-and-approve step
- Narrated vertical (9:16) short-form video rendering
- Connecting a YouTube channel through Google sign-in
- Private uploads to a connected YouTube channel, including YouTube's “made for kids” and altered or synthetic content disclosures
- Limited automation runs that a person starts and can review
- Public sign-up and customer accounts
- Plans and pricing
- Scheduled and public publishing from inside CME
- Unattended, scheduled automation
- Publishing platforms beyond YouTube
- Long-form and podcast publishing
Connecting YouTube, in plain English
Connecting a YouTube channel is optional. If you do, here is exactly what happens — and what does not.
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You choose to connect
In CME, you open a brand's publishing destinations and select Connect YouTube. Nothing is connected automatically.
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You sign in with Google
You are sent to Google's own sign-in and consent screen, which lists the permissions CME is requesting. CME never sees your Google password.
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CME confirms which channel is connected
CME reads your channel's ID so it knows which channel it is connected to. It does not read your videos, comments, subscribers, or analytics.
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You decide what gets uploaded
CME uploads a video only when you ask it to. Uploads are created as private, so you decide in YouTube Studio when — or whether — a video becomes public.
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You can disconnect at any time
Disconnecting in CME deletes CME's stored copy of your access and asks Google to revoke it. You can also remove CME's access from your Google Account security settings. Videos already uploaded stay on YouTube until you remove them there.
The permissions CME requests
| Permission | What CME uses it for | What CME does not do with it |
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youtube.upload |
Uploading the videos you choose to your connected channel, as private. | Edit or delete your existing videos, or upload anything you have not asked it to. |
youtube.readonly |
Reading your channel's ID when you connect, to confirm which channel is connected. | Read your videos, playlists, comments, subscribers, or analytics. |
How we build CME
You approve first
Generated content starts out pending review. Approving content and publishing it are separate, deliberate steps.
Truthful status
CME shows a channel as connected, or a video as uploaded, only when it has confirmed it — never on assumption.
Credentials stay protected
YouTube access is exchanged on CME's servers and stored encrypted. It is never shown in the app or kept in your browser.
Limits by default
Automation runs within explicit bounds, and unattended publishing stays off until it is ready.
From Cereus Enterprises
Cereus Media Engine is built by Cereus Enterprises LLC, an independent company. CME grew out of the tools we use to produce and publish media for our own brands. [REVIEW: confirm this description, or replace it with approved company copy.]
Interested in early access?
CME is not open for sign-up yet. Get in touch and we will let you know when it is.