Top Television Startups in 2026

Tubi is the future of movie and TV consumption, with the largest library of streaming movies and TV shows available for free! Scratch that—we're not just the future, we're the present, too. Tubi has partnered with leading Hollywood studios including Lionsgate, Paramount and MGM to curate an extensive programming guide available on mobile, web, and connected TV devices like iOS, Android, Roku, Xbox, Playstation, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and more. Check out New Releases, see What's Trending, make plans for Movie Night, or browse through our diverse array of categories to find something that fits your mood. We bring the world movies and TV while never charging a cent. Tubi TV: Now Playing, No Paying.

Since being founded in 1999, we have become the leader in premium broadcast technology and the largest sell-side processor of premium advertising in the world, covering the broadest assortment of media. Our comprehensive sell-side solutions offer the only single-vendor platform that manages ad operations across all business processes and media platforms while providing revenue optimization via direct sold or programmatic. To provide the best possible solutions and service to our clients, we invest more than $35 million per year in core product development and support, and we hire top talent who understand our business and think beyond the ordinary. Our innovative team represents more than 6,500 combined years of broadcast experience.

Philo is a young San Francisco-based startup building the future of television — letting you watch your favorite shows on all the devices you care about with intelligent search, insightful discovery, and effortless sharing. Philo was born in a Harvard dorm room, where cable TV wasn’t offered and the over-the-air broadcast couldn't penetrate the walls of the 300-year-old brick residence halls. The founders of Philo wanted to watch TV around campus, so they wrapped their room in aluminum foil to boost the signal, and connected it to a server to stream it over the campus network. Our technology may have changed, but our mission is the same. At Philo, we are building the TV experience we wanted for ourselves. Today, hundreds of thousands of students can use Philo to watch all the live and recorded television they love on all of their favorite devices, and that’s just the beginning.

Tubi TV is the next generation TV company. Think 'Free Netflix'. Tubi TV is the world's largest library of FREE TV shows and movies. If you're looking for more challenges and responsibilities and want to make an impact in the consumer media space with films and TV shows, then help lead the digital revolution for films and TV shows. Tubi TV is a owned and operated property of adRise, Inc.

Teltoo is a company that empowers CDNs to deliver best-in-class online video. Some of the biggest groups of media in the world have successfully integrated our technology and proved the benefit of it during very high audience events like the Tour de France or the Copa America 2019. We are presently focused on Teltoo's first commercial product: a software-only CDN technology that works alongside hardware CDNs. Teltoo has been proven able to boost the quality of any other traditional method used till far under the most stressful conditions. Teltoo decentralized solution allows online video streaming to scale at unparalleled pace during massive audience events. If you ever experienced a video playback blackout watching your favorite show online it was likely not using Teltoo :)

Tatari is the leading technology platform for utilizing data and analytics to measure and buy ads across linear and connected TV. We understand the complexities that come with getting starting in TV advertising and we give brand marketers the transparency and ability optimize just like they would with a digital campaign. Tatari utilizes a proprietary data science methodology to show the true incremental lift from an ad campaign which helps brands better attribute their sales and invest in high performing inventory sources. Hundreds of brands, old and new to TV advertising, use Tatari’s measurement and media buying technology. Our team includes founders or leaders from other fast-rising companies, like Shazam, TrueCar, Crunchyroll, Vizify, LiveRail, LKQD as well as from more established large companies like Google, Facebook, and Stripe. We are not comprised of agency folks—most of us are engineers and data scientists by training, and we’re building the best solution in the industry. We have been recognized with awards for "best places to work" by both AdAge and Inc Magazine for 2020.

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IMDb is the #1 movie website in the world with a combined web and mobile audience of more than 250 million unique monthly visitors. IMDb offers a searchable database of more than 185 million data items including more than 4 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and more than 6 million cast and crew members. Consumers rely on the information IMDb provides -- including local movie showtimes, ticketing, trailers, critic and user reviews, personalized recommendations, photo galleries, entertainment news, quotes, trivia, box-office data, editorial feature sections and a universal Watchlist – when deciding what to watch and where to watch it. IMDb’s portfolio of leading entertainment apps includes its popular “Movies & TV” app for iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android phones, Android tablets and its mobile-optimized website. To date, there have been more than 115 million downloads of IMDb’s mobile apps worldwide.

Pluto TV, the leading free OTT television service in America, carries and creates more than 100 live linear channels in partnership with studios, cable network groups, digital media brands, publishers and distributors. Each month, millions of viewers tune in to be entertained and informed by premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, live events, cartoons and trending digital series. Pluto TV is available as a free app on mobile, web, and living room devices. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Berlin, New York City and Silicon Valley, Pluto TV is backed by USVP, ProSiebenSat.1 Media, Scripps Networks, Sky, United Talent Agency and other prominent investors.

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