TVShow Time

What TVShow Time does

TV Time is a mobile-first entertainment tracking and community platform that enables consumers to log, discover, and discuss TV shows and movies across multiple streaming services. Originally launched in 2011 as TVShow Time by co-founders Ori Birnbaum and Ron Zuckerman in Paris, the platform has since expanded from TV-only tracking to encompass both television series and films, integrating metadata from TVDB to support episode-level tracking, watchlist management, and streaming availability lookup across services. The product is available globally via iOS and Android apps and a web application at tvtime.com, with features including episode notifications, a "Where to Watch" availability aggregator, community reactions, and trending content surfacing based on collective user activity.

The platform operates under a freemium model, offering core tracking, discovery, and community features at no cost, though no premium tier or paid features are disclosed. TV Time functions as a product-led growth, direct-to-consumer application distributed through mobile app stores and organic social channels (Facebook, X, Instagram), targeting individual TV and movie enthusiasts who want to centralize their viewing habits and engage with a fan community. The company self-describes as the "world's largest community of TV and movie fans," leveraging community reactions and trending signals as its primary discovery mechanism.

TV Time operates as a subsidiary of Whip Media, a media and entertainment technology company, as indicated by the "TV Time, a Whip Media Company" corporate attribution. The organization has a very small team (1-10 employees) and has raised only one disclosed funding round of approximately $659,156 from Kima Ventures in 2013. Its strategic positioning as a consumer engagement asset within Whip Media's broader entertainment technology portfolio, combined with minimal funding and small headcount, suggests the platform functions primarily as a user-facing engagement tool rather than a high-growth standalone venture.

Name

TVShow Time

Legal name

TV Time

Website

https://tvtime.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

TV Time is a mobile and web platform that lets consumers track TV shows and movies, discover new content, receive episode notifications, and engage with a global community of entertainment fans through reactions and comments. It operates as a freemium app under Whip Media.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Entertainment tracking / TV and movie companion app

akta.pro primary industry

Device & App Lifecycle Management (Build, QA, Release, A/B Testing) (MPAHAJAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Pay-TV Value-Added Services (DVR, VOD, TV Everywhere, Apps) (MPABAGAG), Social/Second-Screen & Cross-Media Attention Measurement (TV+Digital+Social) (MPABAOAL)

Keywords

• TV show tracking
• Movie tracking app
• Entertainment discovery
• Episode notifications
• Fan community platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Freemium Platform: TV Time operates as a free-to-use platform with basic tracking features available at no cost. The platform likely monetizes through advertising and potentially premium features, though specific premium pricing was not disclosed in the source material.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

TV Time is a freemium mobile and web platform that lets individual viewers track the TV shows and movies they watch, mark episodes as seen, manage watchlists, and receive push notifications when new episodes are released. It adds a "Where to Watch" feature that surfaces streaming availability across services, a community-driven discovery feed (trending, most binged, most reacted), and social engagement via reactions and comments, positioning itself as the world's largest community of TV and movie fans.

Product overview

TV Time is a unified cross-platform product offering a single integrated service for tracking TV shows and movies across mobile (iOS/Android) and web platforms. The core TV Time App and TV Time Web Platform work together as the primary product, with features including Where to Watch (streaming availability aggregation), show/movie tracking, a notifications system, and a discovery engine. Additional community features enable social engagement among the user base.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TV Time Mobile App A free mobile application for iOS and Android that allows individual users to track TV shows and movies they watch, mark episodes as seen, build watchlists, receive push notifications when new episodes are released, look up where to watch titles across streaming services, and engage with other fans through reactions and comments.
• TV Time Web Platform The web-based companion to the TV Time mobile app, accessible at app.tvtime.com and tvtime.com, providing the same tracking, discovery, "Where to Watch," notification, and community features through a desktop browser for individual viewers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Track everything you are watching
• +3 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Whip Mediaparent_companyOthersTV Time is operated by Whip Media, a media and entertainment technology company. The company is identified as 'TV Time, a Whip Media Company' in the footer of the website. Whip Media appears to be the parent organization that owns and operates the TV Time platform.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• SeriesGuide: SeriesGuide is a long-standing Android TV-tracking app with episode reminders and watchlists. It overlaps with TV Time's tracking and notifications for TV-show enthusiasts, though it lacks the social/community layer.
• Trakt: Trakt is a direct competitor offering TV show and movie tracking, watchlists, and community features across web and mobile. It targets the same 'power TV/movie viewer' persona with a freemium/premium model and integrations with media centers.
• Letterboxd: Letterboxd is a social movie-tracking app with reviews, lists, and community features, owned by a major film studio. It competes with TV Time's movie-tracking and social discovery layer and targets a similarly engaged cinephile audience.
• Simkl: Simkl is a TV, movie, and anime tracker with watchlists and episode-tracking across mobile, web, and media-center integrations. It directly competes with TV Time for the same community of power viewers.
• Reelgood: Reelgood aggregates streaming availability across services and offers universal watchlists and recommendations. It directly competes with TV Time's 'Where to Watch' and discovery functionality for the same fragmented-streaming consumer pain point.
• JustWatch: JustWatch is a streaming-availability search engine ('Where to Watch') with strong affiliate monetization across multiple countries. It overlaps directly with TV Time's 'Where to Watch' feature and discovery layer.

Broad incumbents

• IMDb: IMDb (owned by Amazon) is a broad entertainment database with watchlists, ratings, and 'Where to Watch' features. It is an incumbent with overlapping tracking and discovery functionality, though it serves a much wider entertainment-information use case than TV Time.
• Rotten Tomatoes: Rotten Tomatoes is a broad movie/TV discovery and review platform owned by Fandango. Its tracking, ratings, and 'Where to Watch' features overlap with TV Time's discovery and consumer engagement layer.

Emerging players

• Mubi: Mubi is a curated film streaming and discovery platform with social and tracking features. It overlaps with TV Time's movie discovery and cinephile-community layer, though it operates a paid streaming subscription model.
• Plex: Plex combines personal media library management with a growing free ad-supported streaming service and universal watchlist. Its watchlist and discovery features increasingly overlap with TV Time's value proposition.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tvtime
• Facebookfacebook.com/tvtimeapp
• Instagraminstagram.com/tvtimeapp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tvshow-time

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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