2. The Team
Ben Hookway (CEO) - Ben has 15 years experience in technology
businesses. He was formerly CEO and co-founder of Next Device, a
mobile phone UI technology company, which he sold to Mentor Graphics in
2006.
Ken Tindell (CTO) - Ken joined Vidiactive as CTO in December 2008.
Previously Ken was the founder and a former CEO of LiveDevices, a 3i
and TecCapital funded company, exited to Bosch.
Jerry Ennis (Non-Executive Director) - Jerry was formerly and
investment Partner at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and has
been a board adviser since 2009. His investment experience covers fixed
and mobile communications, internet, mobile entertainment, new media
3. The Problem
People prefer to find web video on the web
Why make them find it again on the TV with a
remote?
Its hard, slow and frustrating - problem
Content doesn’t get found - problem
You can’t socialise from TV - problem
4. The Vidiactive Solution
Find content on your personal device browser, do
what you want with it:
View it on TV - as a TV experience
Create Playlist of your own choices for viewing
Create your own channel
Share with everybody though any mechanism
Get recommendations through any mechanism
Parallel activity to watching video, not linear
5. Using Vidiactive is Simple
Find something great on the web and In your VidiVu account, add to a
use the VidiVu button to add to playlist, share, or send straight
your collection to TV
Watch like TV Select content from your list
with simple remote
6. The vidi.vu link will be the way to define share and view
A vidi.vu link can be a
clip
program
movie
playlist of tonight’s viewing
A video set to play from one point
A feed of content
7. Social TV:
With a Vidi.vu link you can
Share while you watch on TV
Share via Twitter, Facebook, other social
networks and email
Get automatic feed of content to account
Add to playlists
Get recommendations fed to you via Facebook
and Twitter
8. Market Drivers
Divergence of Web Video sites
The rise of peer recommendation
Complexity has never worked on TV
We are at the ‘beginning of the beginning’ of
web TV
Parallels with mobile internet
9. Contact
Ben Hookway, CEO
ben.hookway@vidiactive.com
+44 771 7741858
