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Written by Liz Gannes Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 9:51 AM PT
OVGuide.com Gets $5M ====================
ovguideOVGuide.com, an aggregator for video sites, raised $5 million from Baroda Ventures, the investment firm of David Bohnett, founder of GeoCities, who is also acting as OVGuide’s CEO.
OVGuide says it uses a combination of video search and editorial to index video sites and their offerings. Personally I find the site a bit cluttered and clunky. (I mean really — a full-page ad on a search engine? And opening up a new window with its own ad before sending you to another site?)
One aspect that some visitors surely find useful is that the site links to less-than-legal streams of movies and TV episodes. Of course, search engines are most likely legally allowed to send visitors to infringing content, but many sites avoid doing so to maintain relations with the entertainment industry. OVGuide reported more than 12 million unique visitors in January (though comScore’s measure is 5 million).
Also today, recommendation engine The Filter said it had raised an undisclosed amount of additional funding from Peter Gabriel and other angel investors. Updated 2/19: The amount was $1.2 million.
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Comments (14)
congrats, nice numbers
arizonacharlie — 10:32 AM on February 18, 2009 Reply
I am not sure I like the domain
OVGuide to me sounds like a ladies guide to ovulation dates …
tim — 10:54 AM on February 18, 2009 Reply
The advertisement section was a real turn off as was the refresh
rates
Neno Brown — 12:03 PM on February 18, 2009 Reply
Truth is online video is a gold mine right now average CPM on
online video are over $25 for the content distributors and even
for aggregators like OVGuide there is simply gold in them there
hills.
And even though it appears everyone is in the online video game
there are still relatively few content distributors because of the
high bandwith costs.
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/video
Michael Daniels — 12:26 PM on February 18, 2009 Reply
Modernfeed.com makes OVGuide look like a geocities page from 1996.
Michael, $25 cpms? Where are you getting your smoke from? Please
share…
Huh? — 2:05 PM on February 18, 2009 Reply
Congratulations. Content is king and you guys have it all. I don’t
need to go anywhere else for anything I want to watch online. Well
done!
James — 7:12 PM on February 18, 2009 Reply
Another option you can use is Mylivetime just search for
mylivetime on Google and hit the first result
Internet Guide — 10:56 AM on February 28, 2009 Reply
The site has really gone downhill lately…Have you seen all those
pop up ads???
Yuck
free tv — 6:26 AM on March 4, 2009 Reply
good site, but i prefer Girlsintube http://www.girlsintube.com
more, this is more adult category search engine!
tommy — 1:12 PM on March 10, 2009 Reply
i love this website its the best so keep it goings guys
terrence — 3:19 PM on April 14, 2009 Reply
Help, i’m addicted to this site! Just not enough hours in the day
to watch it all. Search is awesome and spot-on whenever I use it.
Way to go.
bella — 7:19 PM on April 22, 2009 Reply
Wow, they really improved the look of their site with a new
release.
Kim — 4:23 PM on August 20, 2009 Reply
nice site
also recommend http://bit.ly/banyt
MegaMovies — 3:55 AM on September 7, 2009 Reply
Holy pop ups. It is a good site but there are others. Clicker wil
be badass, sign up for the Beta. Its cool!
Sam the video man — 7:08 AM on October 10, 2009 ReplyLinkbacks (1)
... Meanwhile, OVGuide, a website that provides searchable links
to literally thousands of sites that illegally stream major movies
and television shows has just gotten $5,000,000 in venture
financing. ...
mymediamusings » Blog Archive »… — 2:07 PM on February 18, 2009Subscribe to comments feed
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