Articles & Coverage

With 10 Million Monthly Uniques, A New "TV Guide" for Online Video Emerges and it is Impressive

[Beet.tv] June 22, 2008

The OVGuide indexes and highlights some 1800 episodic online video programs. It is powered by a staff of editors and a video search technology. While it has operated largely under the radar, it has become quite popular.... - read more

 

Amid rush to sign online talent, agencies
ponder how to profit

[USA Today] May 30, 2008

...In these dorm-room-style digs - unused foosball table, joke poster of O.J. Simpson - the young scouts who make up the talent agency's 2-year-old Web division, UTA Online, have been feverishly signing up dozens of digital mavericks in hopes of finding that rare bright light who can build a lucrative entertainment enterprise... - read more

 

OVGuide, combing through the online video haystack

[Los Angeles Times] May 23, 2008

...for a glimpse at an online video site that really does resemble Google, see Beverly Hills-based OVGuide. Actually, it's a cross between Google and Yahoo -- a hybrid of a search engine tuned to find videos online and a directory of video sites organized by genre... - read more

 

OVGuide Is Putting a Focus on Web Video Sites

[Los Angeles Business Journal] May 12, 2008

As video Web sites from user-generated YouTube to studio-approved Hulu get more hits every day, it makes sense that a site like OVGuide.com would emerge. It can serve as a one-stop index to video sites across cyberspace... - read more

 

OVGuide: the Baskin-Robbins of the Web

[The Daily Athenaeum] March 3, 2008

In 1999, Napster was the latest sensation. In the course of about a month, the words, "I'll just download it" could be heard in middle school cafeterias and college dorm rooms alike. Practically overnight, the concept of paying for music became obsolete... - read more

 

Writer's Strike Ends, Viewers To Get Network Shows Again

[Information Week] February 16, 2008

...The Writers Guild of America voted Tuesday to end a strike that entered its fourth month and caused a work slowdown for related industries, especially in New York and California, where caterers, truck drivers, and other workers support and rely on the film industry. It also affected viewers' Internet habits, according to Chad Cooper, from the online video guide, OVGuide.com... - read more

 

OVGuide.com - The Best Site You've Never Heard Of

[laist.com] Jan 25, 2008

Can I just say that after giving up TV, I have had a bitch of a time trying to find Family Guy and Sex and the City episodes (which I have recently gotten re-addicted to over the Christmas holiday) online. I found a solution (and something else to get addicted to OVGuide.com. OVG is now on my Firefox toolbar and that's a big deal to me, though maybe not you because you don't know how important something has to be to me to land a spot on that toolbar... - read more

 

Interview with David Bohnett, OVGuide.com

[SoCalTech.com] Jan 9, 2008

Our interview today is with David Bohnett, CEO of OVGuide.com (www.ovguide.com), a Los Angeles-based web site which has created an online guide to video, TV shows, and other content on the web... - read more

 

OVGuide Selected by TIME as a Top 10 Best
Website of the Year

[TIME] Dec 28, 2006

If you've watched all of YouTube's hundred-million-and-counting videos and still have some time to spare, unglue your eyes from the computer monitor, get up, stretch, and then come back and check out this site. Online Video Guide connects users with video content from YouTube and dozens of other video providers. You can search or browse by provider or category. Some of the video sites accessible from Online Video Guide you may not have heard of include video-sharing sites photobucket and vidiLife, but you can also look up professional clips from the History Channel, Oprah, and the major television networks, just to name a few... - read more

Press Releases

Top Online Video Destinations for June

[TVover.net] July 3, 2008

OVGuide.com identified the top online video destinations for June. With over 80 million pages viewed, OVGuide.com's user base experienced significant growth in the past month... - read more

 

May Video Alert Reveals That Viewers Prefer
Long-Form Content

[Press Release - PR Web via Marketwire] June 3, 2008

The majority of the most popular sites, search terms and genres all consist of long-form content, highlighting the trend that online video viewing is on the rise and continuing to increase in popularity... - read more

 

April Online Video Report

[Press Release - PR Web via Marketwire] April 2, 2008

The Internet's Largest Online Video Guide Reveals April's Top Destinations and Searches... - read more

 

"Remote Control of Online Video" employs third-party
ad server to boost value for advertisers

[Press Release] May 12, 2008

OVGuide.com, the Internet's most comprehensive guide to online video, TV shows, movies and video games, has chosen DoubleClick's DART for Publishers (DFP) solution to maximize revenue for its online video guide... - read more

 

OVGuide.com Rewards Online Video Fanatics

[Press Release - PR Web via Marketwire] May 6, 2008

OVGuide.com, the Internet's most comprehensive guide to online video sites, including TV shows, movies, user-generated content and video games, today launched its 'Suggest a Site' contest, offering the chance to win $1,000... - read more

 

OVGuide.com Launches Monthly Online Video Report

[Press Release - PR Web via Marketwire] May 2, 2008

The Internet's Largest Online Video Guide Reveals April's Top Destinations and Searches...today issued its April online video alert, identifying the most popular movie and television destinations, video genres and search terms... - read more

 

OVGuide.com (Online Video Guide) Names Their Top 100 Most Visited Video Sites; Reaches Alexa Top 500

[Press Release - PR Web via REUTERS] Jan 7, 2008

The Internet's most complete and comprehensive guide to online video, TV shows, movies and video games has announced its Top 100 Most Visited Video Sites...Reaches Alexa Top 500 - read more

 

OVGuide Recently Launched -- Promises to be the Next 'TV Guide' for Online Video

[Press Release - PR Web via Yahoo! News] Oct 11, 2006

OVGuide.com (Online Video Guide) wants to be the next "TV Guide" for the rapidly emerging online video market. The company was established in early 2006, with the goal of providing people with a much needed service that bridges the gap between online consumers and the many quality online video sites now available. It also overcomes a key problem in finding material across multlple sites, many of which are copyrighted and don't want to share their videos, by allowing direct searches on the provider sites in a single unified search interface... - read more