LocateTV Blog

Some of you may remember one of the key moments that led to the creation of LocateTV: our lovely paragliding developer Colin seeing a motorbike clip on the net and trying to find exactly where and when he could see the TV programme it came from - a long and arduous process in that [...]

We’re delighted with the feedback that we’ve received since LocateTV went into public beta. As the number of people searching for their favourite TV programmes, films and actors has greatly expanded both in the UK and US, the data on how they are using LocateTV, as well as emails and feedback sent through the site, [...]

Celebrity is the new royalty, and actors are the emperors of them all. Film actors often sweep us away with their romance, intensity and excitement; who didn’t fall in love with Jack Sparrow, man, woman or child? And TV regulars can feel as familiar and accessible as old friends, living out their dramas in [...]

LocateTV is a beautiful marriage of TV and technology. From the most up-to-date data aggregation and region-specific search software, to clean, focused web design and content-sharing widgets embeddable with a simple piece of code, we think that it’s a prime example of how the ancient art of entertainment can be enhanced by the tools of [...]

Heroes: it’s epic. People are talking about it everywhere. US, UK, water cooler or online forum, everyone wants a piece of the cheerleader. Which means that there are a lot of Heroes blogs out there on the net, and it can be difficult to sort the well-written, interesting and informative sites from the oh-look-Hayden-Panettiere-is-really-cute-in-this-episode variety.
This [...]

Back in the early days of online content distribution and peer-to-peer file sharing, it seemed that most films and TV programmes would soon be freely available to web users with less-than-scrupulous consciences. Defenders of illegal P2P activity such as CNET reader Bretbb0 claim that the money internet piracy costs the industry is insignificant compared to [...]

One of the ways in which we’re delighted to see web users embracing LocateTV in public beta is the uptake of embeds by fan sites based around specific shows and actors. We’ve always seen the embeds as a great strength of LocateTV, allowing bloggers and site owners to share content with their readers, be it [...]

Following on from last week’s post where Pete was using LocateTV to calculate the hours of Star Trek on TV, I ran a query to calculate the top 30 people most on TV in the next couple of weeks.
Of course, the results aren’t perfect, because our data isn’t completely comprehensive yet. This goes beyond ’simply’ [...]

Specialised TV and film search is certainly a growth market. With so much TV and film content out there and so many ways of watching it, it’s no wonder that companies are spotting an opportunity to help people navigate all the offerings to easily and quickly find what they want to watch.
But amongst all the [...]

The increase in people watching TV and film online is old and hackneyed news by now, but that doesn’t make it any less true. Jeffro 2pt0 has been blogging about whether the LocateTV team would team up with Joost, the upshot of which is: it’s not a priority with all the larger providers we have [...]