In keeping up with his technology driven cabinet, President Obama will be streaming his first State of the Union Address tonight, January 27, 2010 at 9:00 p.m. EST and 6:00 p.m. PST, live on the internet. With President Obama’s inaugural speech shattering records for online viewing, we are sure to have more records set with this evenings address to the nation.
As always, Yidio will be organizing and providing our users with instant access to where the event will be streamed live online. Please check back often as links will be updated throughout the day.
Do some good today. Help the victims in Haiti get their lives back by donating any amount that you can afford. George Clooney and a slew of other A-list celebrities are coming together to host, “Hope for Haiti Now”, a live telethon that begins on 25 networks at 8pm est. in the US. Please check your local listings outside the US for air times.
We want to thank the Yidio community for their continued support of this terrible situation. Everyone can make a difference.
Watch “Hope for Haiti Now” Live Telethon
-Yidio Team
Press Release Below:
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NEW YORK, NY; LOS ANGELES, CA; and LONDON, ENGLAND (JANUARY 21, 2010) – “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief,” today announced the addition of new musical artists and celebrity participants to its lineup. “Hope for Haiti Now” will air on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT and 7:00 p.m. CT
Newly added performers Beyoncé in London, Madonna in New York City, and Haitian artist Emeline Michel in Los Angeles will join the previously announced lineup: Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, and Sting in New York City; Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift and a group performance by Keith Urban, Kid Rock, and Sheryl Crow in Los Angeles; and Coldplay, and a group performance by Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z, and Rihanna in London.
In addition to musical performances, Wyclef Jean in New York City, George Clooney in Los Angeles, and CNN’s Anderson Cooper reporting from Haiti, “Hope for Haiti Now” will feature President Bill Clinton, Ben Stiller, Brad Pitt, Chris Rock, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jon Stewart, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, Will Smith with Muhammad Ali, and more than one hundred of the biggest names in film, television, and music.
“Hope for Haiti Now” will begin accepting donations at 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT on Friday, January 22 via the following methods:
Online: www.hopeforhaitinow.org
Phone: 877-99-HAITI
Text: Text “GIVE” to 50555
Mail: Hope For Haiti Now Fund, Entertainment Industry Foundation,
1201 West 5th Street, Suite T-700, Los Angeles, CA 90017
Music performances from “Hope for Haiti Now” will be available for purchase and download on the iTunes® Store. Beginning on Friday, iTunes customers will be able to exclusively pre-order both the “Hope for Haiti Now” full performance album ($7.99) and the full two-hour video telecast ($1.99). Pre-orders will be delivered in the days following the telethon. Individual audio performances will also be available for purchase and download for $.99 cents each in the days following the telethon. Apple, the record labels and the artists will donate their share of the proceeds to Haiti relief funds managed by “Hope for Haiti Now” charities.
“Hope for Haiti Now” performances will also be available for purchase on AmazonMP3 and Rhapsody, with distribution provided by INgrooves. Proceeds from those purchases will also benefit Haiti relief funds managed by “Hope for Haiti Now” charities.
“Hope for Haiti Now” will benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme, Yele Haiti Foundation, and the newly formed Clinton Bush Haiti Foundation. Proceeds from “Hope for Haiti Now” will be split among each organization’s individual funds for Haiti earthquake relief. With the exception of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, each partner organization was selected for its history of operation and collaboration within the NGO community in Haiti.
“Hope for Haiti Now” will air across ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, COMEDY CENTRAL, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, CENTRIC, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, EPIX, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health, Planet Green, CNN en Español, HBO Latino, and Canadian networks including CBC Television, CTV, Global Television, and MuchMusic. The event will be live streamed online globally across sites including YouTube, Hulu, MySpace, Fancast, AOL, MSN.com, Yahoo, Bing.com, BET.com, CNN.com, MTV.com, VH1.com, and Rhapsody and on mobile via Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and FloTV. “Hope for Haiti Now” will also air internationally on BET International, CNN International, National Geographic, and MTV Networks International, which is available in 640 million homes worldwide. “Hope for Haiti Now” will be available non-exclusively to all terrestrial radio stations around the globe and SIRIUS XM Radio as a one time only radio broadcast via the MTV Radio Network and Westwood One.
Based on production needs and venue sizes, all “Hope for Haiti Now” studio locations will be closed to the media. Photos, pool video footage and talent interviews from “Hope for Haiti Now” will be serviced to news outlets immediately following the event.
“Hope for Haiti Now” is produced by Joel Gallen and Tenth Planet Productions, in collaboration with Viacom’s MTV Networks and George Clooney.
About MTV Networks
MTV Networks, a division of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), is one of the world’s leading creators of entertainment content, with brands that engage and connect diverse audiences across television, online, mobile, games, virtual worlds and consumer products. The company’s portfolio spans more than 150 television channels and 400 digital media properties worldwide, and includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Harmonix, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., TeenNick, AddictingGames, Neopets, COMEDY CENTRAL, SPIKE, TV Land, Atom, GameTrailers, and Xfire.
Contacts:
Carole Robinson 212.846.8760 carole.robinson@mtv.com
Mark Jafar 212.846.8961 mark.jafar@mtvstaff.com
For Anderson Cooper:
Shimrit Sheetrit 310.788.6796 shimrit.sheetrit@turner.com
For George Clooney:
Stan Rosenfield 310.407.3444 stan@sra-pr.com
This January, Yidio Expects Seven Million People to Watch TV Online
January 14, 2010
San Diego, Calif. – January 14, 2010 – Since October 2009, the popularity of Yidio, which is fast becoming the destination for discovering, sharing and viewing TV and movies online, has seen a dramatic rise as measured by unique visitors and page views. On January 31, Yidio projects that its online TV discovery engine will have attracted seven million unique visitors for the month, which will be a 75 percent uptick from that same measure 90 days prior[1]. During January, the company also expects 50 million page views, another statistic the company regularly tracks to gauge online activity at Yidio.com.
Yidio is equal parts discovery engine, content aggregator and social network, linking viewers to TV and movies, no matter where the content is located online.
“When I first got rid of my satellite and cable TV services, I found myself turning to Yidio more and more to watch my favorite TV shows until, finally, it was the only way for me to watch TV online,” said Sherry D., a Yidio member. “Yidio offered me a flexibility I couldn’t find anywhere else on the internet. I can use Yidio to look at what’s on TV any day of the week, go directly to a specific show through Yidio’s episode guides, buy a favorite episode, or simply watch it on the website of the network it originally aired on!
”There are so many options to explore at Yidio, even beyond the TV and movie-watching,” added Sherry. “I’ve made friends in Australia, England, Italy and a number of other places around the world. And if communicating on Yidio’s website isn’t enough, the site also offers you a way to tell people on Twitter and Facebook what you’re finding and watching at Yidio.”
“There’s an incredible opportunity to provide viewers with a way to not only find and watch their favorite TV shows and movies, but also share that experience with their friends and family wherever they are,” said Brandon Eatros, co-founder and CEO of Yidio. “We’ve built a platform that serves up the content our viewers want to discover, in seconds.”
Yidio’s success stems from the fact that the site gives viewers a personalized, online entertainment center that does two things. First, Yidio organizes the fragmented marketplace of content spread across hundreds of providers. And second, the site helps viewers zero in on when and where they can watch their favorite TV shows. Yidio is also a place where anyone can easily use Yidio’s technology to connect with other viewers to discover new content.
Site Features
- Discovery Engine – recommends content based on your interactions on Yidio. The more you “Like,” “Favorite,” and “Discuss” your favorite shows, the more accurate the recommendations become.
- Episode Guides – provides Yidio users with instant access to all available content providers with one click. The guides include sorting options to search for shows by specific networks and a personalized TV schedule based on a user’s favorite shows.
- Social Entertainment Network – sparks communication in real-time between Yidio users who can instantly share their viewing activity across Facebook and Twitter with all of their friends; offers users a way to exchange threaded comments for easy views and replies.
Yidio is profitable and backed by an equity investment from a group led by serial entrepreneur Alan Warms and Performics founder James Crouthamel.
About Yidio
Yidio’s goal is to provide simply the best way to watch TV and movies online. With thousands of hours of TV programming now available online, Yidio aggregates content for over 400,000 episodes across nearly 3,500 TV shows. Yidio provides users with a single platform to access premium content no matter where it’s located. Yidio takes the enormous world of online TV and organizes it into easy-to-use episode guides that provide access to content from one to many sources. Learn more about Yidio at www.yidio.com.
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[1] Source: Google Analytics (October 2009 through January 13, 2010)
Appolicious Raises $1.5 Million for Social iPhone App Directory
December 17, 2009
We are happy to announce that Yidio board member Alan Warms has raised $1.5 million in funding for Appolicious.com from Apex Venture Partners and James Crouthamel, the founder of Performics.
Appolicious was founded with the goal of making it easy for you to find mobile applications you’ll use and love. The platform combines social networking, journalism and technology to help you discover the best of the current 100k iPhone apps available today.
Congrats to Al and his team!
Announcing The Launch of Yidio, v3
October 28, 2009
After months of development, v3 of Yidio is ready and we are excited to finally make it public today!
Yidio’s goal is to provide the best platform to watch TV and movies online. With this launch, we have developed many new features to enhance discovery of new entertainment, create real-time conversations regarding TV shows or movies, and increase organization throughout the site.
With Yidio now reaching 4 million unique visitors and 32 million pageviews each month, we want to thank our loyal users who continue continue to drive adoption of our easy-to-use episode guide that has made Yidio one of the top destinations to watch TV online. With the v3 launch, we hope to make the Yidio experience even better.
New Features:
- Increased functionality to provide easier access to the shows you love most!
- Intelligent Auto-Suggest Search.
- New directories that include sorting options to search for shows by specific networks.
- Enhanced personalized TV Schedules based on your Favorite shows.
- “Daily Reminder” sent straight to your email or Facebook account so you never forgot when new episodes of your shows are on.
- Build your own “Queue” to keep a list of your must watch episodes.
- Ability to “Like” episodes, movies, and activity.
- Discovery Engine that recommends content based on your interactions on Yidio. The more you “Like,” “Favorite,” and “Discuss” your favorite shows, the more accurate the recommendations become.
- Search for a specific episode by season # and episode # and receive accurate results. Results expand to provide instant access to link results.
- Real-Time Conversation that provides threaded comments for easy viewing and replying. Communicate in real-time with Yidio users and instantly share your activity across Facebook and Twitter with all of your friends.
- Read and respond to Twitter conversations real-time.
- Real-Time discussions search so you can always find something to talk about!
- Wondering if a show is hot or not? Every page has a graphical representation that displays how your favorite shows are trending amongst Yidio users.
Feature Removed:
- We have decided to forgo our music dream to focus all our attention on providing the best TV & Movie experience possible. We hate to see it go, however, Yidio will be better positioned to focus on what it does best.
Thanks again for everyone’s support and please let us know your thoughts about the new site. All feedback is greatly appreciated.
Enjoy!
Yidio Team
