# Blair Harrison

> Blair Harrison is an English-born software engineer and repeat media-tech founder who leads Frequency, the Los Angeles company behind a cloud platform for creating, managing, and distributing streaming television channels. His career runs from computer graphics and real-time video indexing through IFILM's early viral-video era to FAST channels, live streaming, and AI-assisted programming.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Frequency
- **Organizations:** Frequency, IFILM, FasTV, Second Nature Industries
- **From:** England, United Kingdom
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering, University of Bristol, Felsted School
- **Known for:** Built companies across computer graphics, online video, real-time video indexing and streaming television., Led IFILM during the emergence of internet viral-video culture and through its acquisition by Viacom., Received a Wired Rave Award in 2005.

## Career timeline

- **1995-1998** — Founded and led computer-graphics company Second Nature Industries, later acquired by Autodesk.
- **1998-2000** — Co-founded FasTV and served as founder and CTO, developing video-recognition technology for searchable clips from live television.
- **2001-2008** — Led IFILM, first as CTO and then CEO, through the early online-video era; Viacom acquired IFILM in 2005.
- **2005** — Received a Wired Rave Award for his work in television and technology.
- **2010** — Founded Frequency in Los Angeles.
- **2018-2019** — Frequency entered the emerging FAST channel market.
- **2023** — Frequency partnered with Wurl on channel creation, distribution and monetization services.
- **2024** — Frequency introduced Managed Channel Services and Fusion, connecting broadcast workflows with its cloud platform.
- **2025** — Presented the 'Autonomous Media Company' thesis at StreamTV Show; Frequency's Schedule Automator won a StreamTV Award for content delivery and distribution innovation.
- **2026** — Frequency launched a platform-wide AI architecture, Blueprints and AI Scheduling, then expanded its monetization leadership and in-scene advertising work.

## Achievements

- Built companies across computer graphics, online video, real-time video indexing and streaming television.
- Led IFILM during the emergence of internet viral-video culture and through its acquisition by Viacom.
- Received a Wired Rave Award in 2005.
- Co-inventor on published patent applications covering aggregation and presentation of personalized video feeds.
- Built Frequency into a cloud channel platform integrated with more than 200 FAST, vMVPD and OTT platforms by 2024.
- Frequency's Schedule Automator won the 2025 StreamTV Award for Innovation in Content Delivery & Distribution.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Frequency appointed James Smith as General Manager, Monetization; Harrison said the next phase of streaming depends on more effective audience monetization.
- **2026-06** — Frequency launched In-Scene Advertising as a new monetization format for live and streaming television.
- **2026-04** — Frequency launched its platform-wide AI architecture, Blueprints and AI Scheduling for streaming television workflows.
- **2026-04** — Frequency announced expanded live local news support on FAST.
- **2025-10** — Frequency's Managed Channel Services team incorporated a delayed live Tony Robbins event into the Tony Robbins Network on Pluto TV, Prime Video and Roku.
- **2025-06** — Harrison presented his 'Autonomous Media Company' thesis at StreamTV Show and discussed self-optimizing channels in a follow-up interview.

## Links

- Website: https://www.frequency.com/team/blair-harrison
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theblairharrison
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/blairharrison

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Last updated: 2026-08-25