The purpose of the on-screen guide has shifted. By connecting the guide to content-recommendation engines and advertising platforms, service providers and connected-TV device manufacturers are using the EPG as an access point for understanding consumers and reaching out to them to own the living room. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
In a video interview backstage at GigaOM RoadMap, CBS Interactive President Jim Lanzone said that community site TV.com will be getting a lot more personal by integrating backend technology from Clicker, his former startup. The move follows a bigger strategic focus on video at CBS Interactive. Read more »
GigaOM RoadMap is all about examining how connectedness changes everything around us. CBS Interactive President Jim Lanzone, MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman and thePlatform CEO Ian Blaine will join us to talk about how content is distributed and consumed thanks to the Internet in an all-digital world. Read more »
In today’s new universe of video content, consumers need more than a five-button remote to effectively navigate the thousands of choices available. Fortunately, the same technology that has made it possible to create so many offerings can also provide the intelligence to help us find what we want to watch. Though it’s not clear which of the new approaches will win, services from Microsoft, Google, Apple, Roku and others are leading the way towards enormous rewards when it comes to the new era of TV interfaces. Additional companies mentioned in this report include Rovi, Technicolor and Hulu. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
We all love fall TV, but never know when shows are on: Check out this list of services to find episodes of your favorite shows online and get reminders via email, SMS, iCal or even tweet when a new episode is airing on TV. Read more »
Fav.tv wants to keep you up to date about your favorite TV shows, but without any of the distractions of other social TV platforms. Instead of asking you to check in to certain shows, it wants you to interact after an episode has aired. Read more »
When it comes to offering recommendations and personalized services to users sifting through mountains of digital content, online video could learn a few lessons from the music world. We’ve yet to see an offering for online movies and TV that mimics, say, Pandora’s highly personalized service. ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Fav.tv wants to help you to keep on top of your TV schedule by letting you subscribe to your favorite shows. Users can get an iCalendar feed of the shows they’re following, and the site eventually wants to use its data to help TV networks. Read more »
Can’t remember when your favorite shows are on? Don’t know when Hulu will out up the next episode? Then you’re the right target audience for Yidio’s new alerts, which can be customized to ping you via Facebook, Twitter or email every time content becomes available. Read more »
A new site called Matcha.tv is trying to bring users the best movie and TV recommendations across a number of online video services, leveraging their interests and social graph to surface streaming videos that they might be interested in. Read more »
CBS has had a good run with its TV shows both on traditional broadcast and online, even without being on Hulu. But with a new boss taking over CBS Interactive and the general manager of CBS’s online entertainment division departing, will the company’s digital strategy change? Read more »
CBS announced today that it has acquired online video search service Clicker.com, and will replace outgoing CBS Interactive head Neil Ashe with Clicker CEO Jim Lanzone. Clicker will integrate nicely with CBS and TV.com, providing easy-to-use search functionality and personalized recommendations. Read more »
The Best of Clicker 2010 Awards may start getting recognized as the online video world’s awards season kick-off, for the second year running announcing audience favorites from ontent available online, including TV, film and web original series — with web shows dominating in terms of vote totals. Read more »
One of the keys to monetizing NewNet technologies like real-time feeds and social media will be harnessing the massive amounts of data they create. In recent weeks, there have been a handful of announcements illustrating creative ways of using this data. But most of them have ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Facebook may become more directly engaged in your television consumption, thanks to a new press to media companies for greater integration. With Clicker already using Facebook to power its recommendation engine, the social network’s abilities to suggest what to watch may grow further. Read more »
Clicker is moving beyond search with a site redesign that will allow it to serve up feeds or personalized recommendations. To do so, it’s partnered with Facebook to access data from the social graph to offering users relevant videos. But how good is that data? Read more »
Hillcrest Labs announced a new edition of its TV-optimized Kylo browser today, with major integration with Clicker.tv’s TV-optimized programming guide to help users view online content on a 10-foot experience. Kylo also now offers a UK edition, as well as Windows Media Center integration. Read more »
Today on the Net: British file sharers will continue to face lawsuits, Facebook.com is now the second most visited online video site, Apple approves the PlayOn video app,Hulu tweks its iOS app, and more. Read more »
Clicker is taking its social and search capabilities mobile with a new iPhone app. The app, which will act as a companion to its website, will enable users to search for videos, share what they’re watching and create playlists of shows and videos to watch later. Read more »
The act of watching online video on one’s television might experience a serious boom in the next five years. According to In-Stat, by the year 2014 57 million US households will be watching online content on their TVs, with revenue potentially reaching $17 billion. Read more »
Today we spotlight Jim Lanzone, who, prior to founding Clicker.com, was CEO of Ask.com and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Redpoint Ventures. Below, he submits the phrase “nanocasting” for approval, sings the praises of Double Rainbow and explains why using Clicker.com is better than having a brain hemorrhage. Read more »
Clicker is bringing new aspects to its video search and discovery engine, with the launch of new social tools that will allow its users to check in and rate their favorite programs, make recommendations to other users and find out what their friends are watching. Read more »
“When it comes to network TV online, what goes up must come down.” That’s the key finding of an exhaustive study performed by video search site Clicker, which looked at how much network TV makes its way online — and how much of it stays online. Read more »
The actor, producer of multiple web series and senior vice-president of digital media at CJP Communications discusses web video’s trouble with discoverability, his secret crush on Clicker.com and the difficulties that come with producing branded content. Read more »
Clicker has taken its online video search and discovery tools one step further, with a new web site that leverages HTML5 to provide a 10-foot, interactive viewing experience to the TV, all without the need to install a new application. Read more »
Clicker has added live streams to its online video programming guide, enabling users to now easily search for and find online programming as it happens. Clicker Live, which is launching today, aims to catalog all the premium live shows that are being broadcast for free on […] Read more »
SetJam launched a major redesign of its video aggregation site today and also announced a $275,000 bridge investment from the New York Angels and Hudson River Angels investment groups. The company is competing with aggregators like Clicker and Mefeedia, and directly targeted Clicker in its release […] Read more »
Viacom vs. Google Court Battle Heats Up; the copyright fight being waged by Viacom against Google will move into a crucial stage on Friday, when both companies are expected to file motions for summary judgment. (CNET) Clicker Redesigns Its Online Video Guide; with a web site […] Read more »
At least in terms of branding and industry recognition, Clicker is doing the best job so far of being a television guide for the web. The company — which only launched three months ago at our NewTeeVee Live conference — has been rewarded with an $11 […] Read more »
At least in terms of branding and industry recognition, Clicker is doing the best job so far of being a television guide for the web. That’s why the company — which only launched three months ago — just got $11 million in Series B funding. Read more »
iPad Puts Focus on Apple’s Flash Feud; Apple and Adobe, which used to be cozy partners, have become increasingly estranged since the computer maker unveiled its iPad tablet late last month. (Wall Street Journal) Electus Hires Starcom Entertainment Vet Caraccioli-Davis; entertainment marketing specialist Laura Caraccioli-Davis is […] Read more »
Movies, Cable Drive News Corp.’s Strong Fiscal Q2; operating income at its Filmed Entertainment division nearly tripled to $324 million, fueled by strong sales of DVDs, while cable network operating income rose 35 percent, to $604 million. (Multichannel News) Meanwhile, News Corp COO Chase Carey said […] Read more »
In GigaOM Pro’s latest Connected Consumer quarterly wrap-up (sub required), we analyze how the world of NewTeeVee continued to shake the foundations of old media in Q4 2009. From the rapid growth of connected consumer electronics, the consumer’s ever-increasing appetites for online video, the socialization of […] Read more »
The Legend of Neil, Compulsions and The Web Files are among the winners of online video content discovery platform Clicker‘s 2009 Best of Clicker Awards. The list of web video winners and finalists: Best Web Original Comedy Winner: Legend of Neil Finalists: Safety Geeks: SVI Life […] Read more »
Boxee next Monday will launch a new consumer electronics device on which the open source media center platform will run: the Boxee Box. But it faces numerous challenges, including keeping its platform open and wooing content partners. And it must handle said content partners with care. Read more »
Media center software maker (and soon-to-be hardware pusher) Boxee is adding new search and discovery capabilities to its platform, by teaming up with video search firm Clicker. Through the partnership, Boxee will add a Clicker app to its software, which will serve as a combination of […] Read more »
Backstory: Hulu and Embeds Before Hulu even had a name or its current management team, it had distribution partners: AOL, MSN, MySpace, Yahoo. All along, one of Hulu’s most distinctive and friendly features has been that all its content is embeddable. Since everything was embeddable even […] Read more »
Blake Krikorian, who left left Sling Media earlier this year, the place-shifting startup that he sold to Echostar for $380 million in September 2007, is going to join the board of directors of Clicker.com, a Los Angeles-based online-video content discovery company started by Jim Lanzone, the […] Read more »
Ever since Blake Krikorian left Sling Media, the place shifting startup that he sold to Echostar for $380 million in September 2007, he’s been lying low. Instead of trying to build yet another startup, he has been spending time trying to put together a killer home […] Read more »
NewTeeVee readers can get early access to the hot new beta in town, Clicker. The site’s friendly interface makes it easy to find something to watch online, whether it be TV shows, movies, web originals or music. Though Clicker is a bit rough around the edges, […] Read more »
