ca us founder s edwin ong & alex vikati website www.casttv.com type of site video search engine current status acquired casttv was a former internet video search and aggregation company based in san francisco california . after the company was acquired by the tribune company in 2010 its popular consumer website was closed down and the core technology was used to build various enterprise data products including online video data which powers the universal video search for google roku tivo and other online video providers . casttv was founded in 2006 by edwin ong and alex vikati . 1 services included a video search engine and the licensing of video search technology to media companies . casttv s search index incorporated both popular and longtail content including tv shows 2 movies celebrity news sports and viral videos . 3 the company filtered out expired videos duplicate videos and video spam . 4 history edit early 2006 casttv is founded by husband and wife entrepreneurs edwin ong and alex vikati . december 2006 casttv secures its first customer gemstar tv guide . 5 april 2007 casttv raises a 3.1 m series a from draper fisher jurvetson and additional funding from investors including ron conway and marc andreessen . advisors include rajeev motwani and timothy chou . 6 2008 casttv launched consumer beta . 7 december 2010 acquired by tribune company . 8 2011 tribune launched online video data product powered by casttv technology . 9 references edit about casttv by casttv inc. retrieved on june 3 2008 . the best guides to watching tv online by liz gannes newteevee september 25 2009 . beyond youtube new ways to find video on the web by joseph de avila the wall street journal october 30 2008 . new companies launch yap cognitive code viewdle faroo & more by chris morrison venturebeat june 3 2007 . gemstar tv guide licenses online search technology by todd spangler multichannel news june 21 2007 . casttv raises 3.1 million battles google and aol in video search by mike arrington techcrunch april 24 2007 . catch your favorite shows and viral videos at casttv by jason fitzpatrick lifehacker january 14 2009 . tribune media buys video search engine casttv by leena rao techcrunch december 16 2010 . tribune media services launches new metadata products for entertainment guide providers external links edit casttv s former web address retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title casttv & oldid 712122050 categories defunct online companies of the united statesdomain specific search enginesentertainment websitesinternet search engines navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 march 2016 at 02 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view