Clicker

Jim Lanzone is the CEO of Clicker, the complete programming guide for Internet television.

Previously, Jim was CEO of Ask.com, a leading global Internet property and search engine. After leaving Ask in 2008, Lanzone took a position as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Redpoint Ventures. 

Prior to his role as CEO, Lanzone served as senior vice president and general manager of Ask.com US, and also led product management, marketing and technology globally for the company. Lanzone joined Ask as vice president of product management in 2001 after its acquisition of eTour, a website discovery service, where he was co-founder and President. 

There are massive amounts of television, film and videoprogramming available online and it’s only growing. Yet all of these shows,movies and webisodes are housed on thousands of different sites across the Web, mixed in among billions of random clips and low-quality, user-generated videos.To complicate things even more, many episodes are only available for limitedtime – sometimes a show or movie is even free on one site but not another!

That’s where Clicker comes in. Clicker catalogs allbroadcast programming that’s available online, including broadcast and cable TVshows and movies, along with web originals, delivering one seamless, organized experience so you can easilydiscover what’s available to watch online, where you can watch it, and suggestionsfor other content you might find worth watching. 

Clicker's been named one of GQ Magazine's "4 Sites You need to Know," PC World's "10 Sites and Services that will Matter in 2010," Mashable's "8 Companies Reinventing TV Online," and ReadWriteWeb's "Top 10 Startup Products in 2009." Find out more at www.clicker.com.  

How Do We Do It?

To make it fast and easy to find what you want to watch right now, Clicker is one part directory, one part search engine, one part wiki, one part entertainment guide, and one part DVR. At the heart of it all is Clicker’s massive database growing daily and currently containing:

- Over 600,000 of episodes, from over 10,000 shows, from over 2,000 traditional and Web TV networks

- Over 20,000 of movies

- Over 80,000 music videos from 20,000 artists

Staying on top of what programs are available online, organizing them for you so that what you want to watch is easy to find, and recommending gems for you to discover is what Clicker is all about.