Comments on: Yidio Raises Funding for Web TV and Movie Discovery

By: Michael Anderseen

Michael Anderseen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:10:33 +0000

There is actually a lot of demand for such services and the market is highly divided, with many top players.

We have the “legal” websites: Yidio, Sidereel.com, http://www.tv-links.eu, Ovguide and the new Clicker

There are also a lot of very large, clearly illegal ones: surfthechanel, watchmovies, tvshack, tvduck.

This will turn out in quite a battle for market share and for survival (for those that engage in active piracy).

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:30:25 +0000

Yidio simply makes it easy to find where tv shows & movies are available instead of visiting 100 sites.

By: Movie Monitor: Find a Movie to Watch Online. That’s It.

Movie Monitor: Find a Movie to Watch Online. That’s It. — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:15:52 +0000

[...] Movie to Watch Online. That’s It. Lately we’ve checked out sites such as Clicker, Yidio and SetJam, and that’s only the video aggregators that have launched or sent us previews in [...]

By: timekeeper

timekeeper — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:10:57 +0000

I still don't understand the business model. Isn't this what Veoh was doing years ago?

4 Million visits a month without a revenue stream just looks like a lot of red ink on the books.

By: Jessica Sterner

Jessica Sterner — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:56:55 +0000

For an 18 month old company with very little funding, 4 million visitors a month is quite impressive.

Will be interesting to see where Yidio heads in the future. Definitely worth keeping an eye on!

By: timekeeper

timekeeper — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:50:45 +0000

Interesting...

Use the efficiencies of an internet based application to focus on niches as opposed to the mainstream. How Chris Andersonesque of you! It sounds interesting but the VC's would never buy in. Where do you get the millions of visits per month with the potential to grow to 100's of millions? Being a niche player really limits your market size.

What the VCs don't appreciate is that once you define and dominate your niche you become untouchable. In the mainstream, there is always someone with a different angle on the business model to knock you off the top. In a niche, being king of the hill has real competitive advantage.

By: david

david — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:10:00 +0000

I always thought it was a time for a site that pushed the best in Jewish content (no offence intended)

By: timekeeper

timekeeper — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:10:45 +0000

All that traffic data is all fine and dandy but the links to "illegal" sites that show the video is not so cool. Sure they are just pointing to sites that already have the content available and don't assume any culpability but just ask the Pirate Bay how well that defense works.

It goes to how you how investors are itching to get into this space and feel that millions of eyeballs will be their salvation. "think of all the ad revenue we could generate" (Wringing of hands but emptying of wallets) Suckers.