TV Genius is a

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-based

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company that specialize in TV

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, TV recommendation engines, and

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development. It was acquired by

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in August 2011, and by

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in July 2013. TV Genius became an integral part of the RedDiscovery portfolio with its core work related to TV solutions provided across TV, mobile, web, set top boxes, and devices like PlayStation and

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. The company worked with television operators in

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, TV listings publishers, and

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providers. It was known for its 3-screen TV search and for developing the

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-integrated

. The company was founded in 2005 by the former project director of

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, Bob Eggington, and by Tom Weiss.

Products

* Content Discovery Platform: delivers a

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personalized Personalization (broadly known as customization) consists of tailoring a service or a product to accommodate specific individuals, sometimes tied to groups or segments of individuals. A wide variety of organizations use personalization to improv ...

TV search that provides relevant recommendations for viewers. The TV Genius Content Discovery Platform has been deployed in 8 different languages. * TV and VOD Search: Searches television listings and

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content, enabling search by keyword, actor,

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and time. * TV Content Recommendations: promotes targeted TV recommendations based on Bayes' theorem that are contextual and relevant to the viewer. * Remote Record: allows multiple users to remotely record TV shows or TV series on a

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using SMS or a

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application. *Online TV Guides: includes recommendation, remote record, push-reminders and personalisation features. * Connected

: includes personalisation features can be deployed on Wii, PlayStation and other connected devices. *

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development: includes interactive elements, personalisation, and remote record features for TV-based mobile apps. * Social Content Discovery: uses social media platforms like

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and

to offer real-time recommendations and personalisation.

Timeline

* Founded in 2005 * On 10 February 2010, TV Genius joined the

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''Recommendations Engine Partner Programme''. * On 17 February 2010, Freeview used TV Genius listings software in its iPhone app. On 15 March IP Vision announced their use of TV Genius' Content Discovery Platform in their FetchTV service. * On 29 April 2010, GeniZenterio, the

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specialists, integrated the TV Genius Content Discovery platform into their own platform * In October 2010,

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incorporated TV Genius' Content Discovery Platform into its new website. * In January 2011, Amino Communications and

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partnered to launch a "companion" set-top box at CES. The device (called the Freedom Jump) was designed to complement existing cable and satellite set-top boxes with OTT content. TV Genius developed the EPG for the Freedom Jump. *On 29 March 2011, TV Genius added a backwards scrolling feature to their

solutions, allowing catch up content to be mapped into the

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*In April 2011, TV Genius deployed an online TV guide for

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*On 6 June 2011, TV Genius released a new social TV statistics service, allowing Twitter to be integrated into content discovery solutions. *On 11 July 2011, TV Genius added a

-integrated

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to the Content Discovery Platform software *On 3 August 2011, it was announced that TV Genius was being acquired by

Awards

* On 4 June 2010 TV Genius was selected for a Top 100 Red Herring Europe Tech Start-Up Award * On 13 September 2010 TV Genius was amongst '' The Guardian's'' Tech Media Invest 100 companies in the 'Advertising and Search' category * On 26 October 2010 TV Genius won the Content, Entertainment, Applications and Services section of the Broadband InfoVision Awards *On 28 February 2011 the TV app "Astra Recommends" won first prize in the Samsung Smart TV Challenge. The recommendations component of the app was powered by TV Genius. * On 4 August 2011 TV Genius' social content discovery feature was shortlisted for the "Search and Content Discovery" prize at the Connected World Awards

References

External links

Official siteBetter content and more innovation by TV Genius managing director Bob Eggington

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article Software companies of the United Kingdom Recommender systems

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Awards

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