Critical Media
Location: 1776 Broadway, 24th Floor, New York, New York 10019, United States United States
Founded in: 2002
Stage: Revenue generating
Number of employees: 31-50
Profitable year: 2009
Short URL: vator.co/Critical-Media-Global-Catalyst-for-Utilization-of-Broadcast-Assets-Online
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Critical Media

Global Catalyst for Utilization of Broadcast Assets Online
Startup/business
New York, United States United States United States
http://www.critical-media.com
About
Video/documents
Company description
Critical Media is a major catalyst for proliferating searchable video and audio assets online across multiple applications and services.  By turning broadcast assets into full text mediums, the Company has become a prominent interface for utilizing video and audio content online as well as a provider of real-time solutions and vertical syndication services to broadcasters and other video content owners. By driving the use of these assets into the text dominated business intelligence market (Critical Mention), providing a gateway to broadcasters for clip creation (Syndicaster) and syndication on its ad-supported platform (ClipSyndicate) we are the industry's only complete ecosystem provider.
Team

Sean Morgan, President and CEO, of Critical Media, (http://www.critical-media.com/) provider of Critical Mention, ClipSyndicate and Syndicaster,  is at the forefront of broadcast search, syndication and information services based on the real-time capture and digitization of television, radio and other video content.   Sean was previously one of the founders of ScreamingMedia, Inc., a leading provider of information services for the aggregation, distribution and integration of real-time, text-based business and financial information into websites, intranets, wireless sites and interactive television. Screaming Media became the Internet's largest text syndication network, debuted on the NASDAQ in August of 2000, and was subsequently acquired by CBS MarketWatch (now a part of Dow Jones, Inc.). Critical Mention, the Critical Media''s market leading real-time broadcast intelligence platform is currently utilized by 25% of the Fortune 100, government agencies, politicians and leading non profit organizations around the world. ClipSyndicate, the Company's ad supported, vertical video syndication platform is in partnership with over 250 Broadcast Affiliates and 4,000 registered websites. The Company's completely web-based, mid-stream tv and radio clip creation and distribution platform, Syndicaster.tv is being utilized by major TV and radio broadcasters in a private beta to be opened up Q2, 2008.  Critical Media is NYC-based.

Business model
advertising revenue, SAAS subscription, and transmission and transcoding fees
Competitive advantage
Critical Media's global broadcast capture and digitization platform makes every spoken word of television and radio programming keyword searchable within moments of broadcast and accelerates the utilization of these assets online across business intelligence applications, broadcast search and distribution solutions and ad supported syndication services.