TV Genius
Encyclopedia
TV Genius is a United Kingdom
-based software company that specializes in TV search engines, TV recommendation engines, and EPG
development. TV solutions are provided across TV, mobile, web
, set top boxes and devices like Playstation
and Nintendo Wii. The company works with television operators in pay TV
, IPTV
, TV listings publishers, and mobile TV
providers. It is known for its 3 screen TV search and for developing the Facebook
-integrated EPG. In August 2011 the company was bought by Red Bee Media
.
The company is based in London. It was founded in 2005 by Tom Weiss and Bob Eggington, former project director of BBC News Online
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
-based software company that specializes in TV search engines, TV recommendation engines, and EPG
Electronic program guide
Electronic program guides and interactive program guides provide users of television, radio, and other media applications with continuously updated menus displaying broadcast programming or scheduling information for current and upcoming programming...
development. TV solutions are provided across TV, mobile, web
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
, set top boxes and devices like Playstation
PlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
and Nintendo Wii. The company works with television operators in pay TV
Pay TV
Pay television, premium television, or premium channels refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analog and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and internet television...
, IPTV
IPTV
Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...
, TV listings publishers, and mobile TV
Mobile TV
Mobile television usually means television watched on a small handheld device. It may be a pay TV service broadcast on mobile phone networks or received free-to-air via terrestrial television stations from either regular broadcast or a special mobile TV transmission format...
providers. It is known for its 3 screen TV search and for developing the Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
-integrated EPG. In August 2011 the company was bought by Red Bee Media
Red Bee Media
Red Bee Media Limited is a media management company.Headquartered in west London, United Kingdom at the Broadcast Centre, with international offices in Scotland, Australia, France, Germany and Spain, Red Bee Media has 1500 employees worldwide including homeworkers and revenues of £153m in...
.
The company is based in London. It was founded in 2005 by Tom Weiss and Bob Eggington, former project director of BBC News Online
BBC News Online
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production. The website is the most popular news website in the United Kingdom and forms a major part of BBC Online ....
.
Products
- Content Discovery PlatformContent Discovery PlatformA Content Discovery Platform is an implemented software platform for consumers to search for television content online using recommender system tools such as recommendations or TV search engine...
: delivers a contentContentContent or contents may refer to:* Contentment, a state of being* Content , the highest common factor of a polynomial's coefficients* Content , an additive real function defined on a field of sets...
personalized TV search that provides relevant recommendations for viewers. The TV Genius Content Discovery PlatformContent Discovery PlatformA Content Discovery Platform is an implemented software platform for consumers to search for television content online using recommender system tools such as recommendations or TV search engine...
has been deployed in 8 different languages. - TV and VOD Search: Searches television listings and Video on DemandVideo on demandVideo on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...
content, enabling search by keyword, actor, genreGenreGenre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...
and time. - TV Content Recommendations: promotes targeted TV recommendations based on Bayes' theoremBayes' theoremIn probability theory and applications, Bayes' theorem relates the conditional probabilities P and P. It is commonly used in science and engineering. The theorem is named for Thomas Bayes ....
that are contextual and relevant to the viewer. - Remote Record: allows multiple users to remotely record TV shows or TV series on a set top box using SMSSMSSMS is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones. The terms SMS or sms may also refer to:- Computer hardware :...
or a smartphoneSmartphoneA smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...
application.
- Online TV Guides: includes recommendation, remote record, push-reminders and personalisation features.
- Connected EPG: includes personalisation features can be deployed on [Wii]] PlaystationPlayStationThe is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
and other connected devices.
- mobile app development: includes interactive elements, personalisation, and remote record features for TV-based mobile apps.
- Social Content Discovery: uses social media platforms like TwitterTwitterTwitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
and FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
to offer real-time recommendations and personalisation.
Timeline
- Founded in 2005
- On February 10, 2010 TV Genius joined the NDS GroupNDS GroupNDS Group Plc. is a developer of pay TV technology. NDS was established in 1988 as an Israeli start up company. It was acquired by News Corporation in 1992. The company is currently headquartered in Staines, United Kingdom...
Recommendations Engine Partner Programme.
- On February 17, 2010 Freeview used TV Genius listings software in its iPhoneIPhoneThe iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
app. On March 15 IP Vision announced their use of TV Genius' Content Discovery PlatformContent Discovery PlatformA Content Discovery Platform is an implemented software platform for consumers to search for television content online using recommender system tools such as recommendations or TV search engine...
in their FetchTV service.
- On April 29, 2010 GeniZenterio, the SwedishSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
iptvIPTVInternet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...
specialists, integrated the TV Genius Content Discovery platform into their own platform
- In October 2010 SES AstraSES AstraAstra is the name for the geostationary communication satellites, both individually and as a group, which are owned and operated by SES S.A., a global satellite operator based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg. The name is sometimes also used to describe the channels broadcasting from these...
incorporated TV Genius' Content Discovery Platform into its new website.
- In January 2011, Amino Communications, and Intel partnered to launch a “companion” set-top box at CESCESCES may stand for:*Closed ecological system, an ecosystem that does not rely on matter exchange with any part outside the system*Constant elasticity of substitution, an economics production function*The ISO 639 code for the Czech language...
. The device (called the Freedom Jump) was designed to complement existing cable and satellite set-top boxes with OTT content. TV Genius developed the EPG for the Freedom Jump.
- On March 29, 2011, TV Genius added a backwards scrolling feature to their EPG solutions, allowing catch up content to be mapped into the TV guideTV GuideTV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
- In April, 2011, TV Genius deployed an online TV guide for Scottish TelevisionScottish TelevisionScottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active...
- On June 6, 2011, TV Genius released a new social TV statistics service, allowing Twitter to be integrated into content discovery solutions.
- On July 11, 2011 TV Genius added a FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
-integrated TV GuideTV GuideTV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
to the Content Discovery Platform software
- On 3 August 2011, it was announced that TV Genius was being acquired by Red Bee MediaRed Bee MediaRed Bee Media Limited is a media management company.Headquartered in west London, United Kingdom at the Broadcast Centre, with international offices in Scotland, Australia, France, Germany and Spain, Red Bee Media has 1500 employees worldwide including homeworkers and revenues of £153m in...
Awards
- On June 4, 2010, TV Genius was selected for a Top 100 Red Herring Europe Tech Start-Up Award
- On September 13, 2010, TV Genius was amongst the Guardian's Tech Media Invest 100 companies in the 'Advertising and Search' category
- On October 26, 2010 TV Genius won the Content, Entertainment, Applications and Services section of the Broadband InfoVision Awards
- On February 28,2011, the TV app "Astra Recommends" won first prize in the Samsung Smart TV Challenge. The recommendations component of the appApplication softwareApplication software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...
was powered by TV Genius. - On August 4th, TV Genius' social content discovery feature was shortlisted for the "Search and Content Discovery" prize at the Connected World Awards
See also
- Smart TVSmart TVSmart TV, which is also sometimes referred to as "Connected TV" or "Hybrid TV", , is the phrase used to describe the current trend of integration of the internet and Web 2.0 features into modern television sets and set-top boxes, as well as the technological convergence between computers and these...
- Hybrid digital TVHybrid digital TVHybrid digital TV can show digital TV content from a number of different sources including traditional broadcast TV, internet, and connected devices in the home. To watch hybrid digital TV, consumers will need a hybrid IPTV Set-Top Box with a range of input connectors, including Ethernet as well...
- Enhanced TVEnhanced TVEnhanced TV is one example of interactive TV. It is used in particular in reference to Two-Screen Solutions TV + PC services. Generally users of these ETV services have their TV and computer in the same room, and navigate their web browser to a particular program-specific Web site that is...
- Interactive televisionInteractive televisionInteractive television describes a number of techniques that allow viewers to interact with television content as they view it.- Definitions :...
External links
- Official site
- Better content and more innovation by TV Genius managing director Bob Eggington The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
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