NewTeeVee’s Next Big Thing List for 2009

Comments (13)

• Quite surprised that this list doesn’t include any credible Live Streaming player ! Let’s look back next year :)

  Max Haot — 5:52 PM on October 12, 2009 Reply

  • Actually I know that Ooyala does live streaming – they have been doing a lot lately with the Vans surfing competitions and and some MMA fights

    David Elliot — 4:33 PM on December 30, 2009 Reply

• So these are the guys we have to thank for the crappy Postseason.tv
  http://mlbsupport.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=72

  The Philies game was unwatchable today. I already submitted my refund request. Every playoff game is nothing but constant buffering. Today during the 7th inning the video went out! These guys should watch Sunday Night Football on NBC.com to see how it’s done.

  The few minutes that the SNF player was on one 1 bar it was superior to Postseason’s player on 4 bars. 95% of the time I was able to watch the SNF game in HD.

  gonzo90017 — 10:02 PM on October 12, 2009 Reply

• Boxee has what 1000 or 2000 users? total?? it gets way more hype than it deserves. bittorrent 2.0… with a lot less users. this thing will flash out.

  hyper — 11:23 PM on October 12, 2009 Reply

• @gonzo90017:

  the technology for both Sunday Night Football on nbc.com and mlb.com is the same. Inlet powers both. infrastructure may vary, but both begin as HD signal.

  bono — 6:30 AM on October 13, 2009 Reply

• I just got an invite to Clicker.com and think it’s the most impressive new site I’ve seen since Hulu. The interface is beautiful and it makes it extremely easy to find shows all over the Web.

  Scott Bowman — 6:58 AM on October 13, 2009 Reply

  • I also wanted to comment on Clicker, they’re not making content, but they’re making content a whole lot easier to find.

    Whit Scott — 12:22 PM on October 15, 2009 Reply

• What about Tubemogul? They have been killing it lately with in-stream analytics.

  Robert Sandie — 11:17 AM on October 15, 2009 Reply

• I’d also include Kaltura. They appear to be the leading open source video management platform, at least in the U.S., and they’re getting a lot of design wins. They integrate well with Drupal and WordPress, and the price for the software starts at zero.

  Len Feldman — 11:52 AM on October 15, 2009 Reply

• Great list, Liz!

  A company I hope you’ll also eyeball for future lists like this is Retrofit Films, digital production company, directors of the recent Sprint/NBC Heroes “tagged media” integrated web series campaign who also produced and directed the teaser web series for The CW’s Vampire Diaries and the animated web series for the The CW’s Smallville entitled Kara & The Chronicles of Krypton, among many others.

  We’ve worked pretty closely with the major networks and studios to date, although we wouldn’t say that’s our only niche.

  Thanks!

  Todd Havens — 1:27 PM on October 16, 2009 Reply

  • Thanks Todd — I’ll ping you on email.

    Liz Gannes, NewTeeVee — 2:11 PM on October 16, 2009 Reply

• Life sure would be simpler if there was 1 breakout winner… after years of Tivo doing my thinking it’s hard to remember which shows are hulu or netflix or network sites or… sigh. I know it’s the content providers all wanting their cut and afraid of change but I can still whine can’t i? :)

  Scott — 7:56 AM on October 19, 2009 Reply

• @Scott, Robert, Len and Whit — Thanks for the suggestions, we definitely considered all of those. I’d say they are each a little earlier in the process than competitors we chose for the list. No doubt they are promising companies, but perhaps next year they will get their due.

  Liz Gannes, NewTeeVee — 10:01 AM on October 16, 2009 Reply