Nokta

Nokta is a privately held Turkish tech-media company operating leading consumer websites including izlesene.com, sinemalar.com, doviz.com, and alkislarlayasiyorum.com, reaching roughly two-thirds of Turkish internet users with 200 million+ video views, monetized through digital advertising.

Company typePrivate
Founded2002
HeadquartersAnkara
Headcount51–100
GTM typeB2C
OfferingDigital Commerce or Content

What Nokta does

Nokta (legal entity Noktacom Medya İnternet Hizmetleri San. ve Tic. A.Ş.) is a privately held Turkish tech-media company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Ankara. It operates a portfolio of leading Turkish consumer websites including izlesene.com (video sharing), sinemalar.com (movies), doviz.com (currency and financial information), and alkislarlayasiyorum.com (music videos), collectively reaching approximately two-thirds of Turkish internet users with 200 million+ video views. The company monetizes this audience primarily through digital advertising delivered via its proprietary ad platform.

Underlying the portfolio is a proprietary technology stack built on an elastic OpenStack private cloud with CEPH distributed storage. The platform comprises a distributed video streaming cluster, video transcoding, a content delivery cluster, an in-house adserver, ad targeting, user profiling, audio fingerprinting, and a BI cluster for big-data analytics. The product surface is being extended into mobile via active hiring of Android and iOS developers, and organic acquisition is being reinforced through SEO and content management roles.

The business model is B2C and advertising-supported: end users access content free of charge while Nokta sells targeted advertising inventory to its advertiser clients. Operations are entirely domestic to Turkey, with no disclosed geographic expansion, partnerships, or external investment. Leadership is founder-led, including CEO and Co-Founder Tümay Asena, CTO and Co-Founder Tuna Orbay, and Co-Founder Başar Ekim who also serves as Advertising Group Director, indicating alignment between technical and commercial direction.

Nokta firmographics

Firmographics

Name: Nokta
Legal name: Noktacom Medya İnternet Hizmetleri San. ve Tic. A.Ş.
Website: https://noktamedya.com
Company type: Private
Founded year: 2002
Operating status: Operating
Headcount range: 51–100 employees
Short description: Nokta is a privately held Turkish tech-media company operating leading consumer websites including izlesene.com, sinemalar.com, doviz.com, and alkislarlayasiyorum.com, reaching roughly two-thirds of Turkish internet users with 200 million+ video views, monetized through digital advertising.
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Nokta industry classification

Industry

Product category: Online Video Media
NAICS: Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (516210)
SIC: Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Distribution (7822)
akta.pro primary industry: Short-Form Video Discovery, Curation & Aggregation Platforms (MPACAHAG)
akta.pro secondary industries: Rights Management, Content ID & Anti-Piracy Platforms (MPACABAK), Content Identification & Matching (Fingerprinting, ID Resolution) (MPAHALAE)

Keywords

Online video platform
Digital video streaming
Programmatic advertising
Content publishing
Big-data analytics

Where Nokta is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: Ankara

Offices1 record

Markets served

Nokta business model

Business model

GTM type: B2C
Offering type: Digital Commerce or Content
Cost components: Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

Digital Advertising: The company generates revenue through its advertising platform capabilities, delivering targeted advertisements to its large user base of Turkish internet users through ad targeting, ad serving, and user profiling technologies.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Nokta product offering

Product offering

Core offering

Nokta operates a portfolio of leading Turkish consumer websites — izlesene.com (video sharing), sinemalar.com (movies), doviz.com (currency and finance), and alkislarlayasiyorum.com (music videos) — delivering video, entertainment, and financial information to approximately two in every three Turkish internet users and generating 200 million+ video views. The company monetizes this audience through digital advertising, served via its proprietary adserver, ad targeting, and user profiling systems running on an in-house elastic private cloud, CEPH storage, and BI analytics infrastructure.

Product overview

Nokta is a tech-media company operating as a platform offering distributed video streaming, video transcoding, content delivery, ad targeting, user profiling, and big-data analytics capabilities. The company manages a portfolio of Turkey's leading websites including izlesene.com (video sharing), sinemalar.com (movies), doviz.com (finance/currency), and alkislarlayasiyorum.com (music videos), reaching two in every three Turkish internet users with 200 million+ video views.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

200 million+ video views
+1 more outcomes

Companies that use Nokta

Customer profile

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Nokta technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API: No
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature10 records

Nokta partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Nokta competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

VEVO: Premium music video platform that aggregates official music video content from labels and monetizes via ads. Directly comparable to Nokta's alkislarlayasiyorum.com music-video property in content category and aggregation model.
Vimeo: Operates a video hosting/streaming platform serving content creators and viewers worldwide. Comparable to Nokta's distributed video streaming and content delivery infrastructure layer, though Vimeo skews subscription/creator-tooling rather than ad-funded.
Rumble: Ad-supported video sharing platform where creators upload content and monetize via ads, paralleling Nokta's izlesene.com and alkislarlayasiyorum.com creator/channel-partner model. Both run proprietary video, adserving, and recommendation infrastructure.
Metacafe: Ad-supported short-form video aggregation platform that aggregates trending clips across categories. Closely mirrors Nokta's izlesene.com curation of channel-partner and trending video content with advertising monetization.
Dailymotion: Globally distributed ad-supported short-form/generalist video platform directly comparable to izlesene.com in business model (UGC curation, ad-funded) and category. Dailymotion targets European and global audiences; Nokta targets Turkish audiences with parallel mechanics.

Regional players

Onedio: Turkish online media platform with video and editorial content, ad-supported. Comparable regional competitor for Turkish advertising inventory and audience attention, even if content mix skews more to editorial cards/quizzes than long-form video.
Bilibili: China-focused video community and aggregation platform with strong creator/channels model and ad plus value-added services monetization. Best cross-region functional analog to Nokta's Turkish-market video aggregation and channel-partner ecosystem.
Mynet: One of Turkey's largest internet portal/media networks with advertising as its core revenue stream. Directly comparable to Nokta as a Turkish digital media incumbent competing for the same local audience and ad budgets, though with broader portal/editorial positioning.

Broad incumbents

YouTube (Alphabet): Dominant global video sharing/ad-funded platform. Not a direct same-niche competitor at izlesene.com scale globally, but the incumbent that defines the category Nokta operates in and against which Nokta competes for Turkish audience attention and ad dollars.
Twitch (Amazon): Video-centric platform serving creator content with built-in streaming infrastructure and audience monetization. Adjacent rather than identical (live-first), but operates in the same ad-and-creator-monetized video category Nokta serves.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Nokta financial estimates

Financial estimate

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Nokta leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Nokta funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Nokta M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Nokta

What does Nokta do?

Is Nokta a public or private company?

Nokta is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.

When was Nokta founded?

Nokta was founded in 2002. It employs 51 to 100 people.

Where is Nokta based?

Nokta is headquartered in Ankara.

How does Nokta make money?

One revenue line is on record: digital Advertising.

Who are Nokta's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are VEVO, Vimeo, Rumble, Metacafe and Dailymotion. Regional players are Onedio, Bilibili and Mynet. Broad incumbents are YouTube (Alphabet) and Twitch (Amazon).

Does Nokta have an API?

No public API is recorded for Nokta.

What industry is Nokta in?

Nokta's product category is Online Video Media. Its primary akta.pro industry code is MPACAHAG, Short-Form Video Discovery, Curation & Aggregation Platforms, with a secondary code of MPACABAK, Rights Management, Content ID & Anti-Piracy Platforms. Its NAICS code is 516210 and its SIC code is 7822.