Top Austin, TX News + Entertainment Companies (55)
Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Roku streaming players and Roku TV™ models are available around the world through direct retail sales and licensing arrangements with TV OEMs and service operators.
Powerhouse Animation is a full service creative agency that produces work for a variety of industries including TV, film, video games, advertising, and corporate explainer videos.
Cheggin is a social app that brings friends together to share the excitement of watching sports in real time. Live sporting events are the most watched television programs in the world and over 50% of sports fans who use social media to follow sports now do so during the game. Yet there's no social network dedicated to connecting friends while watching sports. We're working to create a better real-time social sports experience. With Cheggin you can remotely check-in to sports games and socialize with others who are also checked-in. Checking in alerts your friends that a game is going on and vice-versa. Our homescreen is an activity feed which helps you visualize who's watching what game and which ones are buzzing. Once checked in you can support your team, cheer, boo and banter, access game statistics and enjoy integrated gaming elements that add a new dimension of fun to being a fan. This makes for an easy and fun way to coordinate your social sports life.
PicksUp.io allows you to build leagues of friends, family members, or co-workers to pick, vote, predict or bet on anything.
Leading provider of local news, information and advertising in 77 markets in 26 states Lee Enterprises is a leading provider of local news, information and advertising in primarily midsize markets, with 75 daily newspapers and a joint interest in two others, along with rapidly growing digital products and nearly 350 specialty publications in 26 states. Lee's newspapers have circulation of more than 1.2 million daily. Lee's digital sites attract more than 44 million unique visits monthly. Lee's markets include: St. Louis, Missouri; Buffalo, New York; Omaha, Nebraska; Richmond, Virginia; Lincoln, Nebraska; Madison, Wisconsin; Davenport, Iowa; and Tucson, Arizona. Lee is based in Davenport, Iowa, and our stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LEE. Lee was founded in 1890 in Iowa, by A.W. Lee. Most of our papers trace their beginnings to the mid-1800s. Among our alumni, teenage Sam Clemens wrote for the Muscatine Journal in Iowa before becoming world-renowned as Mark Twain. A reporter from our newspaper in Bismarck, North Dakota, died with George Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In 1973, our newspaper in Davenport, Iowa, became the first in the world to be produced totally by computer. Today, as throughout our history, in every one of the communities we serve, no competitor can match the indispensable local news, information and advertising we deliver to huge audiences of all ages.
MEET GRAFLR: WE'RE DEEPENING THE ARTIST-FAN CONNECTION GRAFLR is a simple smartphone app, that artists can use to digitally sign any fan or selfie photo, based on proximity to the artist during live appearances with the option to mint those images into royalty-sharing NFTs. Artists just set up a profile, open the app and then get on with the show. Fans choose to discover artists and when in proximity to an artist have the option to have their photos signed or, to pick up a digital collectible that has been shared by the artist. Fans can collect and then mint their images to NFTs, with royalty sharing built in between the fan and the artist, generating income for the artist for the lifetime of their signed assets.
We decide what to buy, what to believe, and who we are by the content of this medium. In a matter of seconds, something impossible becomes fact: we watch Neil Armstrong walk on the face of the moon, and humanity enters the cosmos together. And while video is now everywhere, the technical requirements for delivering, experiencing and measuring video are more complicated than ever. At uStudio, we’re passionate about video, and we’ve made it our mission to make it simple for anyone whose business depends on it.
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Ivy Podcast Discovery allows is a podcast search engine and player that allows listeners to discover and follow over a million different topics, including people, across podcast episodes. We use a proprietary model to determine what podcasters are talking about in each episode and surface that information to allow our listeners to easily find podcasts about topics of interest to them. Because we have our finder on the pulse of what podcasters are talking about, we are also able to surface each day's trending topics.
Chive Media Group is a multi-platform digital media and eCommerce company. The company’s flagship brand, theCHIVE, is home to the world’s funniest photo galleries and viral videos, reaching more than 20 million people each month and amassing over 5 billion content views annually. theCHIVE has built an incredible online/offline community through its focus on being a positive escape on the internet. The company’s eCommerce site, The Chivery, is a content-driven commerce site that has sold over 5 million t-shirts and apparel items since its launch in 2011. The company’s 501(c)3 Chive Charities has raised over $19M through flash-donation campaigns for orphaned causes. Most recently, theCHIVE teamed up with Project Venkman to revolutionize the world of NFTs and introduce solutions to the blockchain and how it interacts with eCommerce and community engagement. theCHIVE's first NFT project, the Bill Murray 1000, quickly topped the charts at Coinbase and became the "blueprint for all future celebrity NFTs" according to Forbes. We are here to entertain the masses and help people.
WOS, Inc. provides content, commerce, and community for all things hunting, fishing, shooting, and outdoors. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Plot Guru is a mobile application that makes watching television more interactive. It allows viewers to compete with each other through real-time games and trivia while watching their favorite shows. Plot Guru is played alongside streaming TV – it syncs with the show being viewed, sending users game content relevant to what's happening on-screen.
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At Wizards of the Coast everything starts with great stories, fantastic art and innovative game play. Our players and fans are members of a global community bound together by their love of both digital gaming and in-person play. From Magic: The Gathering, the first and most widely played Trading Card Game (TCG), to Dungeons & Dragons, the roleplaying game that started an entire new category and culture, each of our brands delivers a unique entertainment value to our fan communities including novels, animated TV series, movies, video games, board games, apparel and much more. Wizards of the Coast is a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. For more information about the company, please visit us at www.wizards.com.
Literally Media is a digital publishing house that owns and operates a collection of highly successful humor and entertainment websites. The portfolio of legendary digital brands includes eBaum’s World, Cheezburger, Know Your Meme, and Cracked, which dominate the entertainment market with over 50 million organic users a month. Be part of the most exciting and fulfilling company in the local digital media space, where we reach millions of people across the world with fun, entertaining brands they keep coming back to. This is a full-time position based remotely, with the option to work out of our offices in Brooklyn, NY.
Develops verticals with content, driving a dedicated audience, whom we serve with unabashed dedication through digital programming and an ever-evolving inventory of cool stuff. Native Commerce is news, survival and preparedness, homesteading, DIY crafts, and even makeup. And that’s only naming a few.
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Rokfin’s mission is to be the best platform for enterprise subscription websites and content providers to monetize their offerings by joining a subscription consortium. Their channel allows for an easy way to build recurring revenue, earn customer relationships, increase the LTV of their customers and share the benefits of network effects.
TotalFratMove.com is the #1 comedy destination on the internet among college undergrads, according to the 2011 Youth Trends Lifestyle Report. It embodies the hilarious "frat" comedy that we at GRANDEX came to love back in college. TFM offers a satiric and often unabashedly blunt genre of comedy from the perspective of America's privileged youth.
Front Gate Tickets is one of the world’s leading providers of turnkey, end-to-end ticketing, fulfillment, marketing and RFID solutions for large scale music festivals, entertainment events, artists and venues. Front Gate clients include Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza, EDC Las Vegas, Bonnaroo, Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, and the X-Games In addition Front Gate provides services directly to renowned touring artists and world class venues. Based in Austin, Texas, Front Gate Tickets delivers superior customer support and service to its clients and ticket buyers.
Aperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other - in print, in person, and online. Created in 1952 by photographers and writers as "common ground for the advancement of photography," Aperture today is a multiplatform publisher and center for the photo community. From our base in New York, we produce, publish, and present a program of photography projects, locally and internationally.
GigFinesse is a music tech start-up founded in New York City. In just three years, we’ve grown from DIY shows on NYC rooftops to managing venues in multiple metropolitan areas across the United States. Our mission is simple: to disrupt the live music industry by reinventing how venues and artists connect. Our AI-powered platform, combined with our hands-on talent-buying team, puts together shows that help our artists grow and our partnered venues thrive, night in and night out.
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