Clicker.com Claims To Be The TV Guide For The Internet
Its a busy old life zooming from one internet tv site to another looking for a bit of tv eye candy to settle down with. To try and alleviate that small inconvenience, many aggregator websites have sprung up that basically display and link to streaming tv content from many websites.
Latest aggregator site to appear is clicker.com which has a comprehensive set of links and searches allowing you to watch pretty much anything online, free or pay to view.
Clicker is not competing with any free tv websites but is acting a comprehensive guide to them. Clicker indexes a selection of movies, tv shows, music videos. Some streams can be watched on Clicker but mostly you get redirected to the website carrying the streams
Testing has been completed during the last two months and now Clicker is available to the general public. Containing an index comprising 400,000 TV episodes, 50,000 music videos and around 30,000 movies that come from the Netflix or Amazon streaming stores.
Streaming from Netflix requires a subscription while Amazon.com sells or rents video downloads. Most of the other material in Clicker’s database is shown for free.
Although on the face of it, Clicker is just copying a myriad of other sites such as Yahoo and Bing, it is attempting to be different by adding social media elements and the addition of a forum allowing viewers to recommend shows to each other.
For revenue it is believed that Clicker will use advertising and collect commissions from the pay to view content.
The site is part of Clicker Media Inc., a Los Angeles startup that has raised $8 million from such investors as venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and Redpoint Ventures.
The site is organised in several categories such as:-
* Action & Adventure
* Animation
* Arts
* Business & Finance
* Comedy
* Documentary
* Drama
* Education
* Events & Specials
* Food & Cooking
* Health & Lifestyle
* How To
* Kids
* Live Programming
* Mystery & Suspense
* News & Information
* Reality & Game Shows
* Science & Environment
* Sci-Fi & Fantasy
* Sports
* Talk & Interview
* Technology & Gaming
* Travel
So click on Food & Cooking and you will get a selection of shows like Hell’s Kitchen which if you click on sends you to the home of the stream which could be Fox, Hulu etc.
Whilst a welcome addition to internet tv, there is nothing groundbreaking that cannot be found elsewhere. However, a little experience and work may evolve the site into a must visit destination.
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Its ok as far as it goes, but do we really need yet another aggregator of tv streams? Listing it using information from other sites and then inflicting its own advertising on us before we get to the stream adverts.
I’ll stick with using what i use and waiting for some actual new content coming online before i get excited.
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