Telecast

What Telecast does

Telecast is a privately held, New York-based company founded in 2013 that delivers handpicked short-form video content daily on mobile devices to consumer audiences. Per the firmographic profile, the company operates with a small team of 1-10 employees and is structured as a for-profit entity; its stated value proposition is "handpicked" curation of short-form video for mobile users.

The associated source material is Emojiguide.com content that profiles multiple third-party digital storytelling and short-video applications — Flipagram, VivaVideo, Meipai, Dubsmash, Animoto, and Wondershare Filmora — rather than describing a unified Telecast product. These apps span video slideshow creation, lip-sync capture, and editing tools, situating Telecast within the broader short-form mobile video ecosystem. However, the source does not disclose Telecast's own product surface, technical architecture, content-sourcing workflows, pricing, monetization model, app-store metrics, or go-to-market motion; nor does it describe any proprietary technology stack.

Leadership is documented as CEO Matt Hackett and Director Paul Murphy. No funding rounds, customer counts, partnerships, integration partners, or revenue figures appear for Telecast itself in the available data, which constrains the analytical depth that can be supported beyond a baseline description of the stated mission and market positioning.

Name

Telecast

Legal name

Unknown

Website

https://teleca.st

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Telecast is a New York-based private company founded in 2013 that delivers handpicked short-form video content daily on mobile devices to consumer audiences, operating with a small team of 1-10 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Content & Reference

NAICS

Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (516210)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Social/UGC Feed Aggregators (Multi-Source Feeds) (MPACAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Video & Channel Discovery Aggregators (MPACAKAE), Community-Integrated Publishing Platforms (MPACAIAI)

Keywords

• Emoji directory
• Digital communication tools
• Unicode emoji reference
• Emoji discovery platform
• Social media content

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Telecast operates Emojiguide, a web-based emoji reference and discovery platform that catalogs emojis by Unicode group, editorial category, platform vendor, and Unicode version, while publishing editorial blog content on emoji usage in digital communication and storytelling. The site also surfaces curated educational content about how emojis are used in third-party video and social media applications.

Product overview

Telecast operates a digital storytelling platform centered on emoji discovery and communication tools. The core product offering consists of an emoji guide database (Emojiguide) that provides comprehensive emoji information across Unicode groups, editorial categories, and platforms. The company also distributes and reviews various third-party video editing and social media applications including Flipagram (video slideshow creation with music), VivaVideo (mobile video editing with effects), Meipai (video sharing community for women), Dubsmash (lip-sync video creation), Animoto (cloud-based video slideshow creation), and Wondershare Filmora (video editing with visual effects). These complementary products enable users to create and share content enhanced with emojis across social media platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emojiguide Emojiguide is a web-based emoji reference and discovery platform that lets individual users look up, browse, and copy emojis organized by Unicode group (People & Body, Flags, Objects, Symbols, Travel & Places, Smileys & Emotion, Animals & Nature, Food & Drink, Activities), editorial category, platform/vendor (Apple, Google, Facebook, Windows, Twitter, Samsung, JoyPixels, TikTok, Gmail, Softbank, Docomo, KDDI), Unicode version, and release year. It also provides emoji combo themes, a kaomoji directory, and an editorial blog covering emoji usage in digital communication and storytelling. The product is targeted at individual consumers, social media users, and content creators who need a comprehensive cross-platform emoji lookup utility.

Quantifiable outcome

• Flipagram reached 200 million+ users (Flipsters)
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Instagram (Meta): Hosts Instagram Reels, a short-form mobile video product with massive distribution. Competes for the same user attention and creator supply as Telecast's handpicked model.
• Snap Inc. (Spotlight): Snapchat's Spotlight tab is a short-form mobile video surface targeting creator content. Overlaps with Telecast's mobile short-video use case at scale.
• TikTok (ByteDance): The dominant short-form mobile video platform. While not a curated model, it defines the competitive set Telecast operates within and shapes user expectations for mobile short video.
• YouTube Shorts (Google): YouTube's short-form mobile video product. Vast content library and algorithmic recommendation make it a structural competitor to any curated short-video product.

Emerging players

• Plex: Media aggregation and discovery platform spanning free streaming, podcasts, and personal media. Comparable in aggregation/curation mindset, though broader than short video.

Direct peers

• Flipagram (Vigo Video): Historical peer: a mobile slideshow video app referenced in the Emojiguide source. Directly comparable product category (short mobile video creation/sharing), though the company has since been wound down/acquired.
• Dubsmash: Historical peer: short-form lip-sync video app referenced in the source and later acquired by Reddit. Comparable as a focused short-form mobile video community, illustrating both the category and the exit path available to Telecast.
• Triller: Short-form music-driven video app targeting creators and social sharing. Most directly comparable as a focused short-video mobile platform with a smaller footprint than TikTok.
• Dailymotion: Independent video aggregation and streaming platform. Comparable in its role as a curated/aggregated video destination, and a company where Telecast's director Paul Murphy previously held leadership.

Others

• Tubi: Free ad-supported streaming service with curated channels and editorial programming. Comparable as a curation-driven video model, though focused on long-form rather than short-form.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/telecast

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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