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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) is acquiring Clicker, the self-styled “TV Guide” for online video, and is installing Jim Lanzone, Clicker’s co-f…
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.
What are some of the programming differences between Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Prime Videos, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Hulu Plus? Amazon has some p…
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Clicker is adding Clicker Mobile and Clicker Social to the roster of ways the LA startup is trying to meet its mission to be the guide to in…
“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.
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.
For the second week, one of the most interesting new content apps I’ve seen isn’t actually content — it’s about how to reach the video cont…
The folks at Clicker.com are rightfully psyched about their new live video directory, which makes finding legit live video a cinch. It’s not…
Clicker has added live streams to its online video programming guide, enabling users to now easily search for and find online programming…
SetJam launched a major redesign of its video aggregation site today and also announced a $275,000 bridge investment from the New York…
At least in terms of branding and industry recognition, Clicker is doing the best job so far of being a television guide…
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.
iPad Puts Focus on Apple’s Flash Feud; Apple and Adobe, which used to be cozy partners, have become increasingly estranged since the…
Movies, Cable Drive News Corp.’s Strong Fiscal Q2; operating income at its Filmed Entertainment division nearly tripled to $324 million, fueled by…
The Legend of Neil, Compulsions and The Web Files are among the winners of online video content discovery platform Clicker‘s 2009 Best…
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.
Media center software maker (and soon-to-be hardware pusher) Boxee is adding new search and discovery capabilities to its platform, by teaming up…
Backstory: Hulu and Embeds Before Hulu even had a name or its current management team, it had distribution partners: AOL (s TWX),…
Blake Krikorian, who left left Sling Media earlier this year, the place-shifting startup that he sold to Echostar for $380 million in…
NewTeeVee readers can get early access to the hot new beta in town, Clicker. The site’s friendly interface makes it easy to…
