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Websiteyidio.com
Blogblog.yidio.com
Twitter@yidio
CategoryGames, Video and Entertainment
Employees29
Founded6/08
DescriptionYour Internet Video Guide

Offices

Headquarters
650 Mission St.
First Floor
San Francisco, CA, 94105
USA

People

Co-founder/COO
CEO/Co-Founder
Member Board of Directors

Former People

General Manager
Product Director
Product Director

Funding

TOTAL $500k
FUNDING TOTAL $500k
Angel, 11/09
Alan Warms
Jim Collis
Jamie Crouthamel
Bill Luby
Lon Chow
$500k

Competitors

Tags

Yidio

Yidio (short for Your Internet Video) makes it easy to find, enjoy and watch more than 400,000 episodes of 10,000+ TV shows on a PC, TV, tablet or mobile phone. Founded in 2008, Yidio is a profitable angel-backed startup in San Francisco. With more than 1.7 million registered users, 10 Million monthly visitors and the most extensive episode information on movies and television. Watch all your favorite internet TV and movie content providers like Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, and Netflix in one place.

A Total Entertainment Guide

More channels, devices, networks, and services are giving people more options than ever for watching movies, TV shows and video. Yidio is dedicated to enabling consumers to manage their entertainment activities across the many services available for free or by subscription.

Social TV tools allow viewers to create and share a personalized profile that tracks favorite shows, from a custom TV schedule for first run episodes to daily reminders via Facebook, Twitter or email. Discovering new shows and content is easy with recommendations based on social actions.

Yidio’s editorial team keeps viewers up-to-date on breaking news about new episodes, behind the scenes stories, original interviews, celebrity gossip, and online tv and social trends. Yidio’s users can easily tune into a daily stream of hot topics centered around the shows and movies they care about the most.

Recent Milestones

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    Yidio — Yidio Launches TV Alerts for Facebook, Twitter and Email (6/23/11)
    Posted 7/13/11 at 9:57am via gigaom.com
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    Yidio — Greg Hintz joins as General Manager (4/11/11)
    Posted 4/11/11 at 9:21am via yidio.com
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    Yidio added Greg Hintz as General Manager. (4/11/11)
    Posted 4/12/11 at 11:46am
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    Yidio added Mitch McAlister as Product Director. (6/1/10)
    Posted 2/13/13 at 4:35pm
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    Yidio added Mitch McAlister as Product Director. (6/1/10)
    Posted 2/13/13 at 4:34pm
  • Dollar
    Yidio received $500k in Angel funding. (11/12/09)
    Posted 11/12/09 at 6:34pm via venturebeat.com
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    Yidio added Alan Warms as Member Board of Directors. (5/1/09)
    Posted 2/2/10 at 5:51am
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    Yidio added Brandon Eatros as CEO/Co-Founder. (11/1/07)
    Posted 8/4/10 at 2:01pm
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    Yidio added Adam Eatros as Co-founder/COO. (11/1/07)
    Posted 3/11/10 at 9:20pm

Videos

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This video was originally published on Beet.TV

Added: 6/28/11

Screenshots

Yidio screenshot
Above: Yidio.com
Uploaded: 3/3/11

Sources

  1. Yidio raises $500,000 in angel funding for online TV surfing (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  2. Yahoo Veteran, Greg Hintz, Joins Yidio.com as General Manager (blog.yidio.com) [edit]
    Yidio launches alerts, telling you when shows come online (gigaom.com) [edit]
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