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This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best TV startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the TV industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top TV Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Rising Giants Network
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Rising Giants Network is a story-telling company that scripts, produces, and builds audio experiences.
bspoketv
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bspoketv is a television network, and advertising supported platform that aggrigates videos from YouTube. We focus on leading beauty, fashion, and lifestyle influencers to create 30-minute shows for a linear television experience.
bspoketv is distributed via vMVPDs (like SlingTV) and over the air television affiliates throughout the United States.. .
Public Media Group
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Public Media Group is a technology infrastructure company that focuses on advancing the distribution of content and data to all communities. The company builds and operates a national, high-speed content and data distribution system accessible to the entire country, connecting everyone, everywhere.
With the requisite capital and engineering expertise to design, build, own, and operate a national network of Next Gen TV infrastructure, including Single Frequency Networks, PMG will enable its broadcast stakeholders to fully leverage the benefits of ATSC 3.0. The ATSC 3.0 transition presents broadcasters with the opportunity to serve their audiences and communities in new and important ways.
With the ability to now manage content and data, broadcasters open themselves to many new business and public-interest applications.. .
Lingopie
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Lingopie is the world’s first language learning platform that uses TV shows & movies to teach languages. Lingopie’s mission is to empower 100’s of millions of users globally to learn languages by doing what they already love to do everyday.
With Lingopie, language learners get access to 1000’s of hours of blockbuster foreign TV shows & movies from all around the world. Each TV show & movie is offered with a layer of interactive language learning tools and features that turns any episode into a language lesson.
The product leverages NLP and behavioral analytics to create a rich and immersive binge-learning experience.. .
Quickstream™
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Quickstream™ is a part of the 4vod group. Since 2009 our media and telecommunication company delivers broadcast and multiscreen services leveraging the latest standards.
Our technical expertise: TV channel playout and management services, OTT applications, catchup TV, live channel streaming. We offer a tool for secure and reliable TV contributions over the Internet with access to the management platform set in the cloud.
WHAT’S THE STORY BEHIND QUICKSTREAM? We are based in broadcasting since 2009 developing customized solutions and providing managed services for mid-size broadcasters. We quickly understood that making any additional deliveries of managed channels takes far too much time.
We started working on an in-house solution that could optimize our content distribution workflow. After replacing our racks with servers with cloud-based services we noticed, that our clients and partners are interested in our solution.
We decided to test Quickstream on the professional market. Only in the 2020 year, there were more than 250+ Quickstream instances distributing linear tv channels.
MICHAL SUCHON CEO/FOUNDER OF QUICKSTREAM CEO OF 4VOD GROUP OUR SERVICES We are based in broadcasting since 2009 developing customized solutions and providing managed services for mid-size broadcasters. We quickly understood that making any additional deliveries of managed channels takes far too much time.
Streamland Media
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Streamland Media supports films, as well as episodic and interactive entertainment, through its businesses.
Haus of Jaeger
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Haus of Jaeger is a premier, multi-division strategy consulting firm. We set our bars high in building a premier management consulting firm in luxury & fashion with top clienteles – leading luxury & fashion companies, established and emerging luxury brands, major media and online brands.
Unlike most consultancies or agencies in the industry, Haus of Jaeger is backed by fortune 500, leading media companies experience and a strong digital marketing strategy background in marketing mix, cross channel, Ecommerce, targeting and analytics, in addition to our over 10 years of fashion/nonprofit industry experience, luxury brands, PR, celebrity and media relations, fashion media, global marketing communications, retail and creative directions expertise.. .
FlixPatrol
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FlixPatrol gathers all possible streaming data about movies and TV shows to help producers better understand viewers’ taste.
Magico
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An Apple Watch app that allows you to control your TV with simple hand gestures.
Kinetiq
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Kinetiq is taking a bold new approach to TV data and analytics.
Zads
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Technology and artificial intelligence company specializing in solutions for media and advertising
The Surf Network
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The Surf Network is an out-of-home media streaming and advertising platform.
Audience Media TV
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Empowering OTT channel partners to distribute their content directly to audiences and maximize ad revenue.
MovieWire
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MovieWire is your trusted source for entertainment news, reviews, and industry analysis on movies.
Television AI
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We make use of machine learning in the TV and media space to allow customers to upgrade their content. Today’s TV content metadata, this is not limited to linear TV, make it hard to build UX that works equally well across any content – whether that is high-profile content from Hollywood with all the marketing budget required to allow a super rich content UX or low-profile content from Germany about local fruit farmers with pretty much no budget for eye-catching trailers, images, detailed cast & crew information or the necessary tagging to allow the content to be discovered by its audience.
Machine Learning to the rescue! Our services can be used in three different modes: A) automated mode without human intervention, B) draft mode with humans using the work done by machines as a quick draft and C) creative mode where creative people use the insights identified by machines to jump start their work and be in charge of the creative output.. .
Watermarked.io
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Watermarked is the new innovative approach to protect digital media copyright with an invisible and inaudible digital watermark that no impact on content presentation but it is always there to track unauthorized spread. The digital watermark survives various content processing, such as compressing, cropping, rotation, and mirroring.
By having your digital content Watermarked, you secure your intellectual property throughout its lifecycle and its supply chain and will also be able to prove the origin of the content. Watermarked is expected to release as a cloud-based SaaS for regular people and businesses in 2021.
Stay tuned!. .
Streemfire
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Streemfire provides free, independent and user-generated TV. Video on Demand platforms offer too many choices and often results in either opting out or watching the familiar.
Genre based, Linear TV is ideal for the discovering new and independent content.. .
Gadgets Huis
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Gadgets Huis is an e-store for electronic items such as television accessories, cable, audio and security cameras.
Senses Network
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Senses Network provides audiovisual content and dubbing services.
Biad Publiciteit
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Biad Publiciteit specializes in advertising campaigns, brochures, leaflets, posters, billboards, logos, rtv commercial and media advice.
Pulsa Seluler
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Pulsaseluler.comis a service provider of top up, internet data packages.
Camden Productions
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Camden Productions focus on ambitious, high-quality scripted comedy and comedy drama.
Barvo
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Barvo specializes in the sales and maintenance of computers, TV, and audio equipment.
Sudeergha News
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Sudeergha News Kannada is a News channel that bring the latest news and information to viewers. We understand that each event impacts world history and that the direction that society takes is influenced by the information that percolates down to people.
It is this thought that has shaped our direction and content – direct, incisive and factual – reflecting the human angle and the focus being “The Way To Success”. Sudeergha News…
the state’s most trusted news channel. Sudeergha News, which debuted on February 13, 2021.
Which has always managed to appeal to a broad audience of Kannada audiences in front of new innovations and ideas. As a motto of “The Way To Success”, Sudeergha News has been tasked with ameliorating the stubbornness of the system, as well as conducting various sting operations to correct errors in the system, thereby eliminating system flaws.
Visual media is a powerful medium that is constantly running the gamut. Sudeergha News is constantly hitting the headlines of any event, major news, without ever compromising the trust and credibility of the competition.
Sudeergha News is a trust, Sudeergha News is an accuracy. Nodtha eri Sudeergha News for a way to success…..
TVer Technologies
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TVer Technologies is providing system and data solutions to broadcasters nationwide.
Gameloch Channel
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Gameloch streaming entertainment channel
