Clicker Live Shows You What's Playing On The Web Right Now

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Erick Schonfeld is the Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. He oversees the editorial content of the site, helps to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produces TCTV shows, and writes daily for the blog. He is also the father of three adorable children. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular... → Learn More

Live video is starting to take off on the Web on livevideo sites such as Livestream, Ustream, and Justin.TV. And every network TV website also offers live video from time to time. It’s hard to keep up. What is needed is a TV Guide for live video on the Web.

Online video guide Clicker is taking a stab at that with the launch of Clicker Live. It is starting with thousands of feeds of premium live video on the Web. The clicker site will have a new Live tab where live shows will be promoted as “On Air Now” and can be searched. There is also a calendar showing what’s coming up, and you can browse by topic or title. Here are some examples of the types of shows and live video streams that will be indexed on Clicker Live:

(for instance, Livestream alone is now streaming more than one billion viewer minutes per month). Justin.TV and Ustream are seeing similatr growth and But it’s hard to know what’s on

  • High Profile Live Shows from: YouTube, Ustream, Livestream.com, Justin.tv, Stickam.com
  • Major broadcast and cable news network feeds including CNN, FOX, FOX Business, ABC, CBS News, AP
  • Wall Street Journal News Hub
  • Live sporting events and sports coverage; for example: ESPN3, MLB, CBS Sports, FOX Sports
  • Whitehouse.gov Press Conferences and Events
  • Over 50 local market newscasts from ABC, FOX and others
  • Local Government webcasts
  • Weekly tech, Internet, and entertainment shows; for example: CNET, ThisWeekIn.com, Leo Laporte, Kevin Pollack’s Chat Show
  • Weekly political shows; for example: Young Turks, B-Cast, Ed Morrissey
  • Live Concerts and Red Carpet events
  • Celebrity Livestreams; for example: streams celebrities from Ashton Kutcher to Shaq
  • Animal Cams

Clicker launched at TechCrunch50, and recently raised $11 million in a B round from Benchmark, Redpoint, and Jafco. It also helps you find Flash-free videos on the iPad. Now it’s got live video covered too.

Company: Clicker
Website: clicker.com
Funding: $19M

Clicker is the ultimate guide to Internet television. As massive amounts of programming move online, consumers are entering a world of infinite choices, all on-demand. Great! Finding the show you want to watch? Painful. Thousands of episodes from thousands of shows are housed on thousands of different sites, mixed amongst billions of random videos. Clicker culls all broadcast programming, and TV-quality Web originals, from these silos and delivers them in one seamless, organized experience so...

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