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.

VICE.com is an ever-expanding nebula of immersive investigative journalism, uncomfortable sociological examination, uncouth activities, making fun of people who should know better, and award-winning documentaries from a worldwide network of contributors

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.

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.

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.

We at BerlinRosen are a leading national strategic communications and public relations firm delivering high impact media, digital strategy and advertising to top organizations, companies and candidates. Whether you need to raise your profile, move public opinion on a policy issue, communicate in a crisis, reach people online or persuade voters with TV and direct mail that wins campaigns, we at BerlinRosen can help. Our six integrated areas of public relations practice consulting share a common approach. We start with a clear assessment of what you need, and we build from there, acting as counselors and helping you implement the winning plan from start to finish. Your message, your goal, your success story.

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.

We make TV searcheable and share-able. SnapStream is to TV what Google is to the internet. SnapStream allows you to search for a specific keyword and find that moment, that needle in the haystack, inside of thousands of hours of TV. We are how The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight (+pretty much all other talk shows) record, research and find TV clips. SnapStream is also used by the US Senate, Library of Congress, top Journalism Schools, NFL/NHL sports teams and numerous other public and private organizations to record and repurpose TV. Our latest push is into Social TV. Now you can follow along a show with a stream of Tweets about that show side by side. This allows you to identify those moments in a show that blew up on Twitter. You can also interact directly with tweets with engaging content from the show, on the fly, in real time.

We are a streaming service on major streaming platforms that shows positive images of people of color, provides opportunity and levels the playing field for people of color to have a voice.

Making television content more engaging by adding a comprehensive digital layer that allow television producers, anchors, and content creators to engage with their audiences while making the television experience truly dynamic and in real-time. Engagement takes place on the first screen, second screen and every screen via second screen apps, Facebook applications, Twitter, web applications, SMS and IVR support (ability to engage viewers through texting or calling a dedicated number). All from one centralized dashboard that integrates with on-air graphic software in real-time.