About
Kaltura’s AI-powered moderation service helps you review video content more easily by automatically checking it for potentially inappropriate or sensitive material.
Instead of watching every video from start to finish, you get a moderation report that shows what might need attention and where it appears in the video.
The moderation service is available through Kaltura's Agents.
How moderation works
The moderation service reviews video content automatically and highlights parts that may need attention. It checks both what appears on screen (visual moderation) and what is being said in the video (verbal moderation).
Visual moderation uses computer vision to analyze images and scenes in the video, while verbal moderation evaluates the video transcript using an LLM.
Content is evaluated against moderation policies, either Kaltura’s default policies or your organization’s customized guidelines. Visual and verbal moderation are evaluated separately and each requires its own policy.
Creating customized policies requires Professional Services hours.
Moderation policy examples
When configuring the Run content moderation action, you can click Show policy preview to see what the selected policy checks for.
Below is a preview of a default Corporate Content Integrity & Compliance policy.
Below is a preview of a default Corporate Visual Content Integrity & Compliance policy.
Reviewing results
After a video is reviewed, the service generates a moderation report.
The report includes:
- Up to 10 findings per policy rule
- Timestamps showing where each issue starts in the video
- Results for visual moderation, verbal moderation, or both
This helps reviewers jump directly to the relevant parts of the video.
Based on the moderation report, you can decide whether to approve or block the content manually, or apply an automated workflow if one is configured.
- Moderation results are generated automatically by AI and may contain errors. The service highlights parts of the video that may need review, but a human reviewer always makes the final decision.
- Responsibility for approving or blocking content rests with the licensee.
How to use the moderation service
The moderation service is run through Agents.
You can:
- add 'Run content moderation' as an agent action
- choose the relevant moderation policy
- review results after the agent runs
For step-by-step instructions, see Create a Kaltura agent.
