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Now Online: Conan’s Entire Tonight Show Run

By: Oscar | Twitter

Posted: February 4, 2010 – 1:26 pm

Good news everybody!

NBC.com and The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien have put most episodes online for free. That’s 73 episodes of Conan’s now historic, 7 month stint as the host of The Tonight Show. Let me repeat that: SEVEN MONTHS’ WORTH OF THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH CONAN O’BRIEN. FREE. You can easily sort through them all on Clicker, and can even search for your favorite episode by guest. You can find all the available episodes on our Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien page. Enjoy!

UPDATED: NBC has taken down every episode of Conan. Hope you were able to catch a few while they were still available!

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Clicker Goes Back to School

By: Jim | Twitter

Posted: February 2, 2010 – 8:16 am

Today we’re pleased to announce Clicker’s first partnership with a major university: UCLA.

Many universities have begun to put proprietary video content online, for the benefit of both students and the general public. Whether it’s course lectures, sporting events, or symposiums, a world of wonderful, high-quality programs is emerging from academia that is every bit as good, and useful, as shows you might find on non-fiction cable channels. Clicker intends to make it just as easy to watch an Oceanography lecture as we make it to find an episode of Seinfeld. (Here and Here, btw.)

For their part, UCLA has two major priorities when it comes to online programming: 1) Making it dead simple for UCLA students to find UCLA video content; 2) Helping their students find and watch *legal* full-length programming on the Web. (In fact, it was the Motion Picture Association of America who originally brokered the introduction between UCLA and Clicker in the hope that we might do something together in this vein.)

So, as of today, you’ll also find a Clicker-branded widget front-and-center on the UCLA student portal, http://my.ucla.edu. This widget will provide direct access to UCLA content indexed by Clicker, as well as to the 600,000+ TV shows, Web originals, movies, and music videos in our online programming guide. After searching through the widget, users will be taken to a co-branded Clicker/UCLA site: http://www.clicker.com/ucla. (Careful, if you visit this page you’ll have to clear your cookies to return to “regular” Clicker!)

We look forward to helping UCLA achieve their objectives, while at the same time giving all of our users access to a new library of shows they’ll enjoy.

Stay tuned as we expand this program to other schools over the course of 2010. And if you represent a school we are not working with yet, please visit our University Program page for more information.

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Clicker Talk: Easy to Assemble Cast Interviews

By: Oscar | Twitter

Posted: January 20, 2010 – 3:59 pm

Today is the special premiere of MyDamnChannel’s Easy to Assemble miniseries event: Flying Solo. The quirky comedy, about a group of Ikea employees, is premiering a three-episode arc set within a plane bound for Sweden, where new co-workers, relationships, and bitter rivalries come together for a flight full of entertainment and comedy.

Clicker got a chance to go behind the scenes during the filming of this special event and interview stars Illeana Douglas and David Henrie. Check it out:

View on Vimeo.

Easy to Assemble stars Illeana Douglas, (Clicker fan) Justine Bateman, David Henrie, Tim Meadows, and Ed Begley, Jr. You can find the new episodes right here on Clicker.

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The Winners of The Best of Clicker 2009

By: Killian | Twitter

Posted: January 7, 2010 – 3:57 pm

Clicker Awards

The Envelope, Please: Announcing The Best of Clicker 2009 WINNERS

It’s a new year and a new decade. Before you get too excited about the future, however (i.e., all the awesome shows you’re gonna find on Clicker this year), let’s pause briefly to take a look back at the best programs of 2009, according to you, our users.

For those of you who are new to Clicker, here’s how it worked: Voting ran for the last three weeks of December, in 16 different categories. Over 150,000 votes were cast (nice!). After we recovered from New Year’s, we tallied up the votes.

So without further delay, we present the winners of The Best of Clicker 2009. Congratulations to all!

Best TV Show Comedy or Variety – Chuck

We just can’t help but root for the underdog! Computer geek turned secret agent Chuck has won your hearts (and your vote!) for the best Comedy on TV.

Finalists: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, Glee, Community.

Best TV Show Drama – House

He’s the medical Sherlock Holmes of network television, and six seasons later he’s still got it. Catch this Clicker Award winner every week from FOX.

Finalists: Lost, Dollhouse, V, Grey’s Anatomy.

Best TV Show Nonfiction – Intervention

Intervention is the A&E show that challenges addiction with the intention of persuading its participants to volunteer for rehab. The show’s characters might have to face some tough choices, but it certainly wasn’t tough for you voters; Intervention takes home the Clicker Award for the best non-fiction program on TV.

Finalists: Project Runway, The Rachel Maddow Show, Nova, Pawn Stars.

Best Movie Available Online – Bottle Rocket

Wes Anderson’s 1996 debut was a cult classic…and apparently still is. Owen and Luke Wilson make their acting debuts as well. (CEO’s Note: This is one of my 10 favorite movies of all time, but I did not fix the vote. You all just have great taste.)

Finalists: Super Size Me, Ghostbusters, The Hunt for Gollum, Taxi Driver.

Best Web Original Comedy – Legend of Neil

It’s a gamer’s dream (literally). Neil’s transportation into his favorite video game is as funny as it is foul. And for once it looks like the gaming nerd is the most popular guy in the room (or in our case, the running).

Finalists: Safety Geeks: SVI, Life with Kat and McKay, The Temp Life, Blue Movies.

Best Web Original Drama – Compulsions

What if, instead of repressing your impulses, you acted on them? That’s exactly what this web series thriller is all about. We’re glad you didn’t repress your vote.

Finalists: Anyone But Me, The Fall of Kaden, After Judgment, Angel of Death.

Best Web Original Nonfiction – The Web Files

You were smart to vote for this one if you love web programming. Why? Because this weekly news and interview series is all about everything web. Why choose anything else when you can vote for the show that covers it all!? Very clever, voters.

Finalists: Zero Punctuation, Brigitte Dale, Hungry Nation, A Comicbook Orange.

Best Web Original Music Show – Fader TV

Acoustic performances at an open bar, interviews with the best indie rockers around, and rock hard coverage of traveling tours and concerts of all shapes and sizes… if you love music, you love Fader TV. (And it looks like you love music.)

Finalists: The Blakroc Sessions, They Shoot Music, The Artists Den, Daytripping.

Best Music Video Collection – Taylor Swift

This country pop sweetheart has been tugging at the American heartstrings all year long, so it’s no surprise that she takes home the Clicker Award for having the best music video collection online.

Finalists: Kanye West, Lady Gaga, The Lonely Island, Royksopp.

Best Live Show – Live! From The Future with Stuart Paap

We just love that genre called comedy, but we love it even more when it’s live! This unique web comedy is equipped with interactive segments for its online audience amidst interviews and sketches galore. If that’s not the future of web television, we’re not sure what is.

Finalists: This Week in Startups, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, Coin-Op TV, @katiecouric.

Best Technology Show – Gadget Lab

It’s hard to keep track of technology at the rate it’s moving these days. Gadget Labs exists to keep track for you with the latest news and product updates… and after tallying the votes, it looks like it’s greatly appreciated.

Finalists: TED Talks, Tekzilla, Mossberg Solution, The Apple Byte.

Best Show for Kids – Spongebob Squarepants

If you don’t know who Spongebob is, you’ve got to be living under a rock (which is, oddly enough, also where his best friend Patrick resides). A favorite for kids and kids-at-heart alike, this underwater pants-toting sponge emerges victorious for the best kid’s show available online.

Finalists: Batman: The Animated Series, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Strawberry Shortcake, Arthur.

Latest Favorite Viral Video – David After Dentist

Kids say the wildest things… especially after getting loaded on painkillers at the dentist. “David After Dentist” wins best viral video of 2009.

Finalists: JK Wedding Entrance Dance, “Bale Out” – Christian Bale Remix, The Swell Season Featuring Jason Segel – 11/18/09, Lego Matrix Trinity Help.

Best Sketch Troupe – The Casual Mafia

It’s a pleasant surprise that this sketch comedy troupe isn’t comprised of video-after-video making fun of the Mob. And although the temptation to utter that Scarface original, “let me introduce you to my little friend…” is massive, it doesn’t look like you need any introduction to this video-slingin’ Mafia – you voted it in for best sketch troupe of 2009!

Finalists: Good Neighbor, Craptastic, Pete and Brian, Waverly Films.

Best of What You Didn’t Know Was Online – Buffy The Vampire Slayer

A cult series in the late 90s, Buffy might have laid the groundwork for today’s Vampire fanaticism. And though you might have thought it was shunned to spend the rest of its days in a DVD box set, consider yourself enlightened. This was your favorite of what you didn’t know was online. So get watching!

Finalists: The Andy Griffith Show, Veronica Mars, Spaced, The Larry Sanders Show

Most Wanted Online – Battlestar Galactica

There are few fans like BSG fans. You have spoken, and you have spoken loudly. The Internet has a gaping hole where Battlestar Galactica should be. Let’s hope this science fiction drama about rebellious robots and the fate of humanity ends up online in 2010… or we might have a major revolution on our hands!

Finalists: Mad Men, The Wire, Dexter, The Big Bang Theory.

We’ve also added finalists in each category in the awards page, so make sure to check those out (Start here). Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all our users for voting so much!

Killian

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Your Vote Counts: Introducing The Best of Clicker 2009

By: Oscar | Twitter

Posted: December 18, 2009 – 1:24 pm

The year is almost over, and we at Clicker HQ wanted to take a moment to honor the best online programming that 2009 had to offer. Since we couldn’t all agree on what was THE BEST, we decided to take a vote. Yours!

We’ve started things off by nominating the shows, episodes, movies and music videos that stood out to us this year in a variety of categories. Your vote will determine the winner in each.

Now, two questions may come to mind:

1. Clicker just launched November 12. How can you have a “Best of Clicker 2009″ poll?

Answer: We just can.

2. What do the winners get?

Answer: This is more of a Best Of list than an award show. But we’ll make sure the winners are properly notified of their popularity among Clicker users, don’t worry. (Balloons?)

Voting will be open through midnight, EST, on December 31.

You can vote by following the links below, or you can just tweet us your vote to @clicker. We’ll tally everything up and announce the winners early in the new year.

With no further ado, check out the nominees below!

Best TV Show Comedy or Variety

Community, How I Met Your Mother, Glee, The Office, The Daily Show, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, 30 Rock, South Park, Modern Family, Chuck, Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation, The League, Family Guy, Scrubs

Best TV Show Drama

Lost, House, Dollhouse, Fringe, V, FlashForward, NCIS, Stargate: Universe, CSI: Miami, Heroes, CSI: NY, The Vampire Diaries, Mercy, Grey’s Anatomy, White Collar, Castle, Sons of Anarchy, The Closer, NCIS: Los Angeles, Nip/Tuck

Best TV Show Non-Fiction

Hoarders, Jersey Shore, Dancing with the Stars, Intervention, 48 Hours, Pawn Stars, 60 Minutes, Project Runway, NOVA, Secrets of the Dead, Biography, Nightline, The Rachel Maddow Show, Glenn Beck, Charlie Rose, American Greed

Best Movie Available Online

Ghostbusters, Taxi Driver, Dig!, In Debt We Trust, Dirty Work, Bottle Rocket, So I Married An Axe Murderer, The Hunt For Gollum, Inside John Lennon, A To Zeppelin: The Story of Led Zeppelin, Stripes, The Future We Will Create: Inside The World of Ted, Super Size Me

Best Web Original Comedy

2/8 Life, The Temp Life, The Guild, Easy to Assemble, Poor Paul, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, The Crew, Valley Peaks, Legend of Neil, Dorm Life, Mayne Street, Hurtling Through Space at an Alarming Rate!, I Am Not Infected, Safety Geeks: SVI, American Heart, Blue Movies, When Ninjas Attack, The Iceman Chronicles, Singledom, Slacker P.I., Workshop

Best Web Original Drama

The Fall of Kaden, Angel of Death, Dirty Bomb Diaries, Compulsions, The Black Dawn, Young American Bodies, Anyone But Me, Penny Dreadfuls, Luke 11:17, Pushed, Jordan & Bear, Tease, The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D., Before Judgement, Circle of Eight

Best Web Original Non-Fiction

Zero Punctuation, Hungry Nation-Vendr TV, Brigitte Dale, Your Greek News & BSG Cast, A Comicbook Orange, The Basketball Jones, Bitchin Kitchen, Interview Project, The Web Files, Old Jews Telling Jokes, New Media Minute, Angry Video Game Nerd, Celebrity Autobiography, You’re Doing It All Wrong, uneven Terrain, bff, Big Think-We Are What You Think, Ring Life, Climate Change Hits Home, College Humor Prank War, Motherboard, Tailgaitin’ with the Clever Cleaver Brothers, Colliding Particles, The Vice Guide to Travel, Hubblecast, Maestro Knows, Backyard FX

Best Web Original Music Show

Live From Daryl’s House, Fader Tv, They Shoot Music, Take Away Shows, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, Black Cab Sessions, Nardwuar, Breakfast at Sulimay;s, The Blakroc Sessions, Daytripping, Noisemakers on Noisevox, Don’t Look Down, LaundroMatinee’s Video Sessions, ThisCityRocks, The Interface, The Artists Den, Retread Sessions

Best Music Video Collection

Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Phoenix, Passion Pit, Zero 7, Murs, Grizzly Bear, Chromeo, Lil’ Wayne, Matt and Kim, Fleet Foxes, Portugal the Man, The Lonely Island, Spoon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Royksopp, St. Vincent, La Roux, Modest Mouse, Kid Cudi, MGMT, Hot Chip, The Flaming Lips

Best Live Show

This Week in Startups, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show Live, @katiecouric, Coin-Op TV Live, Live! From the Future…with Stuart Paap!, The White House Live, 2009 NFL Sunday Night Football, Lunch with Benefits, Fantasy Football Today, Fantasy Football Live

Best Technology Show

TED Talks, Business Insider, Circuits with David Pogue, Gadget Lab, The Really Mobile Project, CO-OP, CNET Prizefight, Tekzilla, Walt Mossberg Personal Technology, Editor’s Office Hours, Cranky Geeks, The Apple Byte, Make Magazine: Best Weekend Project, Mossberg Solution, TZ Daily, PixelPerfect, Hak5

Best Show For Kids

Arthur, WordGirl, Batman: The Animated Series, SpongeBob Squarepants, Strawberry Shortcake, Inspector Gadget: Original Series, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, CatDog, Design Squad, Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Heroes, Pokemon, English on Brain Popc

Latest Favorite Viral Video

The Swell Season feat. Jason Segel, Lego Matrix Trinity Help, World’s Longest Basketball Shot, JK Wedding Entrance Dance, Kuroshio Sea, “Press Hop” feat. Allen Iverson, Kramer’s Entrance, “Bale Out” Christian Bale Remix, David after Dentist

Best Sketch Troupe

Landline TV, Derrick Comedy, Good Neighbor, Scott Gairdner, Pete and Brian, Craptastic, Waverly Films, Barats and Bereta, P0YKPAC, Elephant Larry, Casual Mafia

Best of What You Didn’t Know Was Online

Veronica Mars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Melrose Place, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Beverly Hills 90210, MacGyver, Twin Peaks, CHiPs, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, The A-Team, Wonder Woman, Hawaii Five-O, Life, Gilligan’s Island, The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Strangers with Candy, The Larry Sanders Show, Peep Show, Spaced, The Ben Stiller Show, Stella, The Twilight Zone, The Hollywood Squares

Most Wanted Online

Mad Men, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wonder Years, The Wire, Eastbound & Down, The Mentalist, True Blood, The Big Bang Theory, The Sopranos, Party Down, Friday Night Lights, Californication, Dexter, Breaking Bad, Sex and the City, Battlestar Galactica

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Clicker <3s Boxee…and your TV

By: Oscar | Twitter

Posted: December 3, 2009 – 9:00 am

We teased it during our private beta, we confirmed it during our public launch, and today we’re making it official. Clicker is now live on Boxee.

Clicker’s Boxee app gives you the opportunity to experience our service in a brand new way — on your actual television. You can search for your favorite shows, movies and videos, or you can browse through hundreds of categories. All this while sitting 10 feet away with a (real) clicker in your hand.

Not all the programming you can discover on Clicker.com is available on Boxee yet, so our Boxee app explicitly features only shows or movies that are currently available through Boxee. That includes over 180,000 episodes from over 3,000 TV and Web shows, as well as 5,000 movies. We’re working with Boxee to add more content and many more sources in the future.

We are listening to your requests on Facebook and Twitter and we know what you want: Clicker on your TV through a variety of devices. Our Boxee app provides your first taste of what’s to come. Rest assured, Clicker will be available in a lot more places over the next few months. If you don’t have Boxee already, you should download it today – you can do that here: www.boxee.tv Check out the Clicker app by looking in the “App Box” in the Boxee alpha. When you get the new Beta, Clicker will be a default app in the “Applications” section.

We’d like to thank Boxee for being such a great partner and we wish them luck on their beta launch on Monday. In fact, our CEO, Jim Lanzone, will be speaking and giving a demo of the new Clicker app at their launch party in Brooklyn (details here) on Monday night. Stop by and say hi! (Free eats!)

Team Clicker

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Beta no more. Clicker for all.

By: Jim | Twitter

Posted: November 12, 2009 – 11:34 am

We are thrilled to announce that Clicker is now open to everyone. Our beta period is officially over.

We’d like to thank everyone who tweeted about us, sent us feedback, and tested the site during the past 58 days of beta. A major part of our final product, and our future roadmap, has come from your input.

Some of you, especially those who were jacked up to get invites to the beta the past couple of days and wanted time to taunt your friends, may be saying, “Hey, what’s the hurry? Doesn’t beta usually last like 6 months or a year or something?” Usually, yes. You can thank our engineering team’s ability to crank for our failure to dawdle. In addition, one thing that continually surprised us during beta was how much of your feedback was plain old enthusiastic support. While we know we have months and years of innovation ahead to fulfill our vision for what Clicker can be, this feedback let us know it was time to take off the training wheels.

Now, what’s a public launch without some awesome new features? We’ve got a lot of those, including:

* 33% more content than beta! We now have over 400,000 full episodes of programming from more than 7,000 shows.

* Netflix and Amazon VOD Movies: Clicker now includes Instant Streaming movies and Amazon VOD for-purchase movies. To view Netflix movies, you must have a Netflix account. Amazon VOD movies are available for either purchase, or rent. (TV coming in the next couple of weeks. Gotta fit it all into our data format so it’s actually useful before we let it go live!)

* Facebook Connect: You can now connect to Clicker using your Facebook account. This allows you to share content with your Facebook friends, maintain a Playlist, and edit our wiki.

* Revamped Playlist UI, nomenclature, and functionality: Save episodes, music videos, or movies into your playlist. Or subscribe to a show, so when a new episode becomes available it will be added to your Playlist automatically.

* Search Within: Want to find the 60 Minutes interview with President Obama? Just search purely within the 60 Minutes catalog. Want to find episodes of Charlie Rose where he interviews Warren Buffett? Do the same!

* Related Search: During beta, we dramatically improved our algorithms for making suggestions related to the shows you’re watching. It’s a good thing our Playlist has been improved so much because you’re going to be adding a ton of programs you just discovered.

* Editing: We were getting so many people recommending edits to our pages, so we made a number of improvements to make it easier for you to submit changes.

Those are just some highlights. There have been a lot of improvements, big and small. The bottom line is that we’re ready to open up and see what the world thinks of Clicker.

And so, in the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, we are about to take our first step into a larger world.

The Force will be with you, beta users...always.

Team Clicker

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Clicker (Beta) Progress Report: One Month In

By: Jim | Twitter

Posted: October 14, 2009 – 12:38 pm

It’s hard to believe it has already been 30 days since we introduced Clicker at TechCrunch50. Thanks to all of you who have said such good things about our new baby on your blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Trust me, we don’t take any of it for granted!

While we’re off to a good start, the feedback we’ve received during the beta makes it clear there are several ways we can make Clicker better before we open it up to everyone. Tens of thousands of you have requested beta invites so far, and we’ve been learning tremendously from your usage, emails, tweets, and GetSatisfaction votes. Here’s the verdict, one month in:

What You’ve Liked Most:

* The breadth and depth of programming covered, especially in deep sub-categories where we have broadcast-quality shows not traditionally found on TV

* The UI/Design/Navigation of the site

* Discovery features like Recommendations, Highlights and Trends

* Playlist: you guys have really been using this a lot. Way more than we expected, in fact!

* Our name and “dude in the chair” icon. You want schwag, and you want it soon. Noted! You have also made suggestions for new takes on the icon, like “Spy in the chair”, “Dudette in the chair”, and my favorite, “Pope in the chair.” Also noted!

Where We Need To Improve:

* You want us to cover content that sits behind paid walls such as Netflix and Amazon VOD

* You want Clicker to be more social so you can discover shows through other people, share your thoughts with other fans, etc.

* You want the Playlist feature to be more clear, both in the nomenclature used to describe things, and the UI/layout

* You want to access Clicker in more places, like Boxee, PS3, Windows Media Center and iPhone

* You want us to get our rating system up and live!

* Many of you are missing the Edit button where you can add your own content to shows and episodes

* You’d like us to link out to more external sources of info, like IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes

* International users want us to more clearly state which shows are US-only

* Images have been loading too slowly for some of you

Needless to say, we’re all over all this stuff. Most of it is in the process of being upgraded for full launch, which shouldn’t be too far away now. Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed their input into making Clicker what we intend it to be: the complete programming guide for Internet television.

Since we now have full launch within sight, we’re ready to start ramping up the traffic hitting the site. For starters, we’re going to give each of our beta users 5 invites to give out to whomever they choose (actually, it’s one invite that can be used 5 times…but you get the point). Feel free to distribute them any way you see fit. Stay tuned — you’ll be getting an email with the details.

Finally, if you live in L.A. and want to celebrate our one month birthday with Team Clicker, drop by our local watering hole El Guapo tonight between 6-8pm (on Melrose near LaBrea in Hollywood). Pitchers of Dos Equis will be on us!

The Real El Guapo

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Hi! We’re Clicker.

By: Jim | Twitter

Posted: September 14, 2009 – 12:29 pm

“There’s a lot of free video on the Internet these days, and you don’t need to go spelunking on BitTorrent to find it. But it’s not always obvious where to get high-quality versions of TV shows and movies.” — Liz Gannes, “Where’s Our TVGuide For the Web?”, NewTeeVee, August 6, 2009

Welcome to Clicker. We’ve been hard at work for the past nine months building our first draft of the ultimate programming guide for Internet television. We’re thrilled to have our beta testers along for the last few weeks of our journey to full launch.

The last generation of television was so simple in retrospect. Shows were on at certain times. You used a schedule grid to find a show, and either watched it at the appointed time, or recorded it with your DVR.

The expansion from three networks to 500 cable channels was nowhere near as dramatic as the current shift to online-delivered content. We’re entering a world of nearly infinite video-on-demand: on big media sites and smaller independent sites, behind paid walls like iTunes and Netflix, through operating systems from Boxee to Xbox, and across every device you own, from your iPhone to your real TV.

That’s tens of thousands of hours of possible programming to navigate. What this generation needs to manage their viewing habits isn’t a schedule, it’s an atlas!

That’s where we come in. Clicker aims to provide the most comprehensive, unbiased and user-friendly way to navigate what’s available (and just as importantly, what’s not) to watch online, where and when you can find it, and finally, what’s worth watching amongst your infinite choices. We have made it our mission to make it dead simple for you to find the RIGHT SHOW, RIGHT NOW.

Clicker Countdown To accomplish this, Clicker is a hybrid of many other kinds of information and entertainment sites: one part directory, one part search engine, one part Wiki, one part entertainment guide, and one part DVR. At the heart of it all is a massive structured database, created by a team of people from search, media, data and content management backgrounds.

From day one, Clicker has mapped more than 300,000 episodes, from over 5,200 shows, from over 1,200 networks – in addition to 1,200 movies (soon to be 14,000 movies with the addition of Netflix), and 50,000 music videos from 20,000 artists. All of this programming is organized by episode, show, network, media type, title, and artist, as well as over 1,000 categories and sub-categories.

While in beta, we’ll be doing more than just working out the kinks.

We’ll also:

– Continue to expand our coverage of shows across all forms of online media: TV, Movies, Web Originals and Music
– Delve even deeper into television and television-quality programming from non-fiction topic categories such as Travel, Home & Garden, Sports, and Live Events
– Introduce recommendations that will hopefully feel like we’re reading your mind
– Expand to cover paid content from sources such as iTunes and Netflix
– Let you access Clicker in more places, from your iPhone to your TV
– Open the doors so you, our users, can add and edit the information on Clicker for every show or episode
– Make Clicker more social with features so you can share and discover great programs

If you’d like to use Clicker during beta, click here to request an invite.

We’re also on Twitter and Facebook so please follow us!

If you have any questions or issues with activating your account, please contact help@clicker.com for assistance.

Thanks and hello world!

Jim Lanzone
CEO

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