Yidio (short for Your Internet Video) makes it easy to find, enjoy and watch more than 350,000 episodes of 9,500 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 1.6 million registered users, 10 Million monthly visitors and the most extensive episode information on movies and television, Yidio.com is the largest provider of new users to internet TV and movie content providers like Hulu, Amazon, iTunes, and Netflix.

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. By pulling in data from many sources to aggregate the most accurate viewing directory possible, Yidio’s TV guide offers complete episode information and links to watch a show wherever it is available, including broadcast schedules.

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.

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 Like, Favorite and Discuss. Tools to discuss and chat in real-time make socializing about shows and movies easy.

Milestones
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Yidio added Greg Hintz as General Manager. (4/11/11)

Posted 4/12/11 at 11:46am
Yidio added Brandon Eatros as CEO/Co-Founder. (11/1/07)

Posted 8/4/10 at 2:01pm
Yidio added Adam Eatros as Co-founder/COO. (11/1/07)

Posted 3/11/10 at 9:20pm
Yidio added Alan Warms as Member Board of Directors. (5/1/09)

Posted 2/2/10 at 5:51am
Yidio received $500k in Angel funding. (11/12/09)

Posted 11/12/09 at 6:34pm via venturebeat.com
Yidio — Yidio Launches TV Alerts for Facebook, Twitter and Email (6/23/11)

Posted 7/13/11 at 9:57am via gigaom.com
Yidio — Greg Hintz joins as General Manager (4/11/11)

Posted 4/11/11 at 9:21am via yidio.com