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Muvi Wants to Build Your Netflix Before You Hire the First Engineer
The streaming SaaS company bundles apps, payments, DRM, analytics and delivery into one white-label stack. The bet is that most media businesses would rather rent the machinery than spend years becoming software companies.
The Internet Used to Break Live TV. LTN Built a Business Making Sure It Doesn’t.
Broadcasters spent decades trusting satellites because the public internet dropped packets at the worst possible moment. LTN’s wager was that a managed IP network could be cheaper, more flexible and just as dependable - and the shrinking supply of satellite spectrum is making that wager look timely.
Blair Harrison Has Been Rebuilding Television Since Before It Had a Skip Button
The Frequency founder has spent three decades making video easier to find, program and distribute. His latest bet is that television's next control room will be software that can learn.
Frequency’s First Product Disappeared. The Pipes Became the Prize.
Frequency started as an app for finding internet video. Its more durable business emerged when it stopped fighting for the remote and began selling the machinery behind 24/7 streaming television.
The Free Streamer That Went and Got 100 Million People
No password, no monthly bill, no free-trial trap. Tubi bet that a giant, gloriously weird library and a few well-placed ads could out-hustle the subscription wars - and 100 million people showed up.
Philo
Philo keeps live television cheap by leaving sports and local stations off the shopping list. That constraint has become its product strategy - and the reason more than a million entertainment-first households make room for it.
VideoElephant
VideoElephant is a Dublin- and New York-based video content company that sources, licenses, curates and programmes premium video for publishers, streaming services and screens worldwide. It runs a library of millions of rights-cleared video assets from thousands of content providers, and packages that content as single VOD assets, feeds and 24/7 FAST channels, layering on distribution, playout scheduling, monetization and advertising so content owners and buyers can operate video at scale without stitching together multiple vendors.
Minerva Networks
Minerva Networks is a San Jose-based software company that builds carrier-grade service management and video delivery platforms for pay-TV and broadband operators. Founded in 1992, its platform lets telcos, cable and satellite providers offer IPTV, OTT and hybrid television - with live TV, VOD, network DVR, catch-up and FAST channels - across set-top boxes, smart TVs, mobile and web. More than 300 operators worldwide run Minerva, and the company now layers AI-driven content discovery through its Minnie AI Companion and its FAST+ streaming service.
Stephen O'Shaughnessy
Stephen O'Shaughnessy is the founder and CEO of VideoElephant, a Dublin- and New York-based company that aggregates millions of professionally produced video clips from providers like Reuters, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera and licenses them to publishers, broadcasters and ad-tech platforms. He started the company in 2012 after shooting 500 travel videos of his own and finding there was no single marketplace to sell them. He has spent roughly 25 years building businesses in music, digital publishing, digital advertising and video production, and raised a EUR 5.5m Series A in 2019 led by Act Venture Capital to chase his stated goal of running the biggest video library in the world.
ODK Media
ODK Media is a Fullerton, California-based media group that brings Asian entertainment to global audiences. Founded in 2011, it began as OnDemandKorea, the first legal Korean streaming service for North America, and has grown into a multi-platform operator running OnDemandKorea, OnDemandChina, OnDemandViet and the pan-Asian FAST service Amasian TV. The company licenses, localizes and distributes Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese dramas, movies, variety shows, news and live sports to viewers across more than 36 countries, blending AVOD, SVOD and free ad-supported TV with its own ODX back-end technology and AI-powered subtitling and dubbing.