The document summarizes the merger between OVGuide and Live Matrix to create a comprehensive source for online video discovery and guidance. Key points:
- OVGuide and Live Matrix merged, combining OVGuide's on-demand video data with Live Matrix's scheduled content data.
- The new company will be the most complete source for finding upcoming, live, and on-demand online video content across all platforms.
- It aims to help users discover online video, and help publishers and advertisers better reach audiences and leverage online video.
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1. THE MOST COMPLETE GUIDE TO ONLINE VIDEO
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2. THE MERGER
OVGuide (OVG) acquired Live Matrix (LM) in a merger
transaction
Sanjay Reddy, co-founder and CEO of Live Matrix, was named
CEO of OVGuide, Inc., and joined David Bohnett and Peter Lee
from Baroda Ventures, along with OVGuide founder Dale
Bock, on the Board of Directors of OVGuide
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3. OVGUIDE & LIVE MATRIX
#1 independent site for on #1 independent site for
COMPANY
demand video guidance scheduled online content
Consumer Site Syndication focus
FOCUS
On Demand Video Data Scheduled Event Data
+ Large User Base + Leader in key new space
+ Solid core operating team STRENGTHS + Experienced CEO
+ Good financial platform + Patents
The most complete data set of upcoming, live and on demand online
video no one else has a data offering that is as deep or complete
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4. THE NEW COMPANY
THE comprehensive source for video
discovery and guidance through the entire
life of any online video when its
upcoming, live and on demand
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5. ONLINE VIDEO ECOSYSTEM
Online video content
Near ubiquitous internet increasing geometrically Increasing # of video
connectivity - network, web only, UGC distribution portals
Consumers are unaware of sources and availability of content
Publishers cant reach audiences fragmented by time and platform; over-reliant on search
engines for discovery of their content
Advertisers cant properly leverage the Web to reach audiences with contextually relevant
messages in a timely manner
Online Discovery & Guidance has become increasingly important and valuable and OVGuide
is in the best position to deliver the solution users, publishers and advertisers need
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6. STRATEGIC FOCUS ON THE SPACE
There will be one million TV stations in the U.S.
-- John Chambers, CEO of Cisco. Also sees consumers moving to more video because the Internet-connected
mobile devices enable easier video production and consumption (Oct 5, 2011)
Today, we'll also start gradually rolling out our live streaming beta platform The goal is to
provide thousands of partners with the capability to live stream from their channels in the
months ahead. Subsequently, YouTube invested $100 million with several video content
publishers to enable them to launch scheduled channels to bolster YouTube Live
-- YouTube official blog post (Apr 8, 2011)
One of the challenges in our industry is awareness of events people dont always know
about an event until after it happens.
-- Nathan Hubbard, CEO of Ticketmaster (Sep 15, 2011)
Launch of TV Everywhere suggests additional revenue [$12B annually] rather than economic
cannibalization
-- Laura Martin, Needham & Co. (Jan 20, 2012)
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
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7. ONLINE VIDEO CONSUMPTION
Online video growth continues to expand
Average person in US watches 5+ hours of online video monthly (Nielsen)
182M US users watched online video content in December 2011 for an average of 23.2 hours per
viewer. The total US Internet audience viewed 43.5B videos (comScore)
Soaring popularity of live video streaming
1.4 billion minutes of live video watched in July 2010 in US up 648% (comScore)
Ustream has 65M monthly unique visitors and has more video uploaded/min than YouTube
(Ustream statistics)
In the near term (two to five years), it is reasonable to expect that throughput requirements for
some single video events will reach roughly 50 to 100 Tbps (the equivalent of distributing a TV
quality stream to a large prime time audience). This is an order of magnitude larger than the
biggest online events today. (Akamai, Harvard, UMass paper August 2011)
10M live video streams 100M+ viewers for Real Madrid vs Osasuna 800M+ monthly video streams
for U2 concert on YouTube match live online in China alone on Hulu
(Oct 2009) (Nov 2011) (Dec 2011)
8. COMPANY PROFILE
Company is based in Los Angeles, CA
OVGuide.com
Founded in 2006 by Dale Bock
~12.4 M monthly unique visitors
~7M mobile page views
3,600+ video sources
#1 Google and Bing result for the search online video
100% organic traffic
Named by Time Magazine as a Top 10 Best Website of the year when it first launched
Live Matrix
Founded in 2009 by Sanjay Reddy and Nova Spivack
Winner of the Most Promising Media Concept award presented by NBCs Peacock Equity Fund at TC
Disrupt May 2010 when company first launched
What TV Guide is to TV, Live Matrix is to the Web: the leader in providing guidance for scheduled
online content
4M+ events tracked across 400+ brands/channels; ~300K events tracked weekly
6 patents; trademarked Whats When on the Web
Note: Traffic statistics above based on Google Analytics for the month of November 2011.
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9. INDUSTRY BUZZ
OVGuide is 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 Los Angeles Times
Livematrix.com is your portal to anything thats worth watching through
your browser; the widget adds real value to your website at no cost
and very little effort from you BBC
10. PRINCIPALS
Baroda Ventures: Los Angeles based venture capital firm founded by philanthropist and technology entrepreneur David
C. Bohnett, the founder of GeoCities which went public in 1998 (Ticker: GCTY) and was subsequently bought by Yahoo for
$3.6 billion in 1999. Investments include Fab.com, Steelhouse, GraphEffect, and PocketChange. Past investments include
MediaVast (acquired by Getty Images), Stamps.com (Ticker: STMP), United Online (Ticker: UNTD) and LowerMyBills.com
(acquired by Experian).
Sanjay Reddy: co-founder and CEO of Live Matrix. Prior to that Sanjay headed up all business development, M&A and
strategy for Gemstar-TV Guide (Ticker: GMST) and ran the public auction that resulted in Gemstars sale to Macrovision
(Ticker: MVSN) in 2008 for $2.8 billion. Previously, Sanjay was a VP in the M&A group at Salomon Smith Barney on Wall
Street, served as VP, Corporate Development for Covad Communications (Ticker: COVD) in Silicon Valley, and a principal in
startups in the animation and music industries. Sanjay is a digital media expert who has advised a range of new media
companies including My Damn Channel, Pixsy, TVersity and BuddyTV. He has also served as a member of the Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences National Primetime Emmy Awards Committee and on its Interactive Media Peer Group's executive
committee.
Dale Bock: Founder of OVGuide. Prior to founding OVGuide, Dale was the founder and CEO of online travel agency, Las
Vegas Direct and was also a part of the Xdrive start up team as a senior programmer before it was acquired by AOL. Dale is a
veteran software industry expert with more than 25 years of experience at Oracle, UCLA Center for Digital Innovation, ISX
(acquired by Lockheed martin) and Valley Oak Semiconductor where he worked on semiconductor chip development for
NASAs Space Infrared Telescope Facility. Dale was a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.
Nova Spivack: Nova Spivack, co-founder of Live Matrix and currently CEO of Bottlenose, is a serial entrepreneur and a
leading pioneer in Semantic Web technology. Nova was most recently the founder and CEO of Radar Networks, the makers
of Twine.com (a semantic search engine acquired by Evri, Inc. in 2010). Previous ventures have included one of the first Web
companies, EarthWeb (Ticker: EWBX) which went public in 1998, which Nova co-founded in 1994 and SRIs technology
venture incubator nVention.
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11. OTHER INVESTORS AND ADVISORS
Chris Kelly: Former Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook
Allen Morgan: Venture partner at Mayfield Ventures; Director at Idealab
Irish Innovation Center: Board includes Macrovision founder John Ryan & John Hartnett (Handspring/Palm)
Len Kleinrock: Distinguished Prof. of CS at UCLA; a "Father of the Internet; seed investor in AOL
Paige Craig: LA based angel investor; CEO, BetterWorks
Steve Kay: Former General Counsel, Gemstar-TV Guide; partner, Hogan Lovells
Stuart Goldstein: Head of technology investment banking at Moelis & Co.
Lori Taylor: CEO, REV Media Marketing
Rich Battista: Ex-CEO, Gemstar-TV Guide; former President, Fox Cable Network
Edgar Fereira: Former CTO, TV Guide Online and TV Guide Data Solutions
Rich Cusick: Former GM, Swirl by Daily Candy; former head of TV Guide Digital (included TV Guide Online
and TV Guide Mobile)
13. LIVE WEB STATS
YouTube invested $100 million with several video content publishers to enable them to
launch scheduled channels to bolster YouTube Live
Ustream has 65+mm monthly unique visitors and has more video streamed/min than
YouTube has uploaded/min
U2 concert on YouTube in Oct 2009 drew 10mm live streams
More than 600 live-blogging "events" take place on CoverItLive every day, attracting
unique readerships that can run as high as 14 million per event. Reports have claimed
CoverItLive events attract 82 million visitors per month
World Cup: ESPN3 had 7.4 million unique visitors, generating 942 million minutes of
viewing or more than two hours per unique; fans streamed over 10 million total hours of
live video on UnivisionFutbol.com
1.4 billion minutes of live video watched in July 2010 in US up 648% according to
comScore
Twitter is at 100mm+ monthly active users worldwide with 230mm+ tweets daily,
including scheduled chat events daily
14. Contact: Sanjay Reddy
CEO, OVGuide
sanjay@ovguideinc.com
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Editor's Notes
Mention Chris, Allen, John Ryan, Len Kleinrock, Rich Battista