CastTV was a former Internet
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and
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company based in
San Francisco,
California. After the company was acquired by the
Tribune Company in 2010, its popular consumer website was closed down and the core technology was used to build various enterprise data products, including Online Video Data, which powers the universal video search for Google, Roku, TiVo, and other online video providers.
CastTV was founded in 2006 by Edwin Ong and Alex Vikati.
[About CastTV](_blank)
by CastTV Inc., retrieved on June 3, 2008. Services included a video search engine and the licensing of video search technology to media companies.
CastTV's search index incorporated both popular and
longtail content, including TV shows,
[The Best Guides to Watching TV Online](_blank)
by Liz Gannes, NewTeeVee, September 25, 2009. movies, celebrity, news, sports and
viral videos.
[Beyond YouTube: New Ways to Find Video on the Web](_blank)
by Joseph De Avila, The Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2008. The company filtered out expired videos, duplicate videos, and
video spam.
[New companies launch: Yap, Cognitive Code, Viewdle, Faroo & more](_blank)
by Chris Morrison, VentureBeat, June 3, 2007.
History
* ''Early 2006'': CastTV is founded by husband and wife entrepreneurs, Edwin Ong and Alex Vikati.
* ''December 2006'': CastTV secures its first customer: Gemstar - TV Guide.
, by Todd Spangler, Multichannel News, June 21, 2007.
* ''April 2007'': CastTV raises a $3.1M Series A from
Draper Fisher Jurvetson and additional funding from investors including
Ron Conway and
Marc Andreessen
Marc Lowell Andreessen ( ; born July 9, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon ...
. Advisors include
Rajeev Motwani and Timothy Chou.
[CastTV Raises $3.1 Million, Battles Google And AOL In Video Search](_blank)
by Mike Arrington, TechCrunch, April 24, 2007.
* ''2008'': CastTV launched consumer beta.
[Catch Your Favorite Shows and Viral Videos at CastTV](_blank)
by Jason Fitzpatrick, Lifehacker, January 14, 2009.
* ''December 2010'': Acquired by
Tribune Company.
[Tribune Media Buys Video Search Engine CastTV](_blank)
by Leena Rao, TechCrunch, December 16, 2010.
* ''2011'': Tribune launched Online Video Data product powered by CastTV technology.
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External links
CastTV's former web address
Defunct online companies of the United States
Domain-specific search engines