Articles & Coverage

OVGuide On Online Video Search

[Adotas] December 31, 2008

Online video has grown into a staple of the internet surfing/researching experience...the future and proper monetization of such a fast-growing sector has been up for debate. Dale Bock, founder and president of OVGuide, and online video search engine, spoke with Adotas on this lucrative part of the industry...

OVGuide - the ultimate online video and television portal

[The Red Ferret Journal] December 26, 2008

OVGuide is a comprehensive link portal to just about every mainstream video and online television site on the Interwebs. If you can't find your favourite show here, it's probably not online...

OVGuide the Granddaddy of all Video Sites

[TechCut] November 11, 2008

...before you didn't have an option. But now OVGuide is here to help. What OVGuide basically does is, it indexes online video sites ranging from YouTube to Truveo. Plus it also indexes...many of those unknown, never-heard-of video sites...

Video Interview: Chad Cooper - A Guide To Explore Online Video

[BNET] November 3, 2008

Chad Cooper is the Editorial Director of OVGuide.com, a company working to make it easier to find quality online video content on the Internet. Professional video online is often hidden in a pile of garbage, Chad tells us how his team of editors is helping to take out the trash by empowering users to find the great video they want - without all the hassle.

Beyond YouTube: New Ways to Find Video on the Web

[The Wall Street Journal] October 30, 2008

...Some sites haven't given up on human intelligence when searching for video. OvGuide.com...says it uses people to identify only the best video. "We only search what we think is a good site so we control the results; and we also control the ranking editorially," says Dale Bock, OvGuide's president and founder...

How to Watch Cable-Free TV

[NYPost Blog] October 16, 2008

The time has arrived to cut the cord, and we're here to tell you how to prepare for an empty living room nest. Cable TV has grown older, giving birth to many other new and younger ways to watch movies and TV shows...

Website of the Day

[Cynopsis: Digital] October 3, 2008

...Check out OVGuide.com for the web's most comprehensive database of video sites and services from all around the globe, sortable by type, genre, popularity, rating, etc...

4 Sites to Find and Watch TV and Movies Online

[PC World] October 1, 2008

Web TV is everywhere online these days; these sites aggregate, organize, or host great-looking online video content of all kinds...

Video Search Wars

[MediaPost] September 30, 2008

Truveo has crowned itself the "king" of online video search...meanwhile newcomer OVGuide.com has just rolled out its own video search engine, aiming to challenge the incumbents and offer contextual video search ads at the same time...

OVGuide.com Simplifies Your Online Video Choices

[Electronic House] September 25, 2008

If you're opening your entertainment system up to online video viewing, check out OVGuide's comprehensive video search engine...There are far more viewing options out there if you want to watch movies and TV shows on your computer...

OVGuide, Fast-Growing Online Video Directory, Expands Search Tools

[Beet.TV] September 22, 2008

OVGuide...has extended search capabilities on the site, it announced today. Unlike a site like Truveo or Google Video which casts a global net, the OVGuide discovers, tracks and organizes online video sites which its editors find valuable...

Video Site OVGuide Dives Into Advertising

[adotas] September 16, 2008

New kid on the block OVGuide is swiftly forging alliances and making its mark on the online video world...the hybrid online video search engine/video site directory organized by verticals, currently boasts about 10 million unique users a month...

Short Circuits - noteworthy experiences among DVDs, video games, gadgets and the Web.

[StarTribune] September 15, 2008

...there are things that YouTube doesn't have, including full-length TV programs and streaming video. That's why your second stop should be a site such as Online Video Guide...

OVGuide Searches Online Video

[AppScout] September 15, 2008

...OVGuide isn't aggregating videos for you to watch; it's a search engine backed by live editors. They don't discriminate. You can find all the usual viral videos and lots of TV shows and movies in their entirety...

Picking Up the Pieces in the Fragmented Universe of Online Video

[E-Commerce Times] August 18, 2008

With its fragmented nature, the world of online video can sometimes leave viewers frustrated. Many of them know what they want; they just don't know where to get it. Destination sites need to re-emerge, connecting like-minded people, making richer user experiences and truly engaging the user, writes OVGuide Founder and President Dale Bock.

AskMen.com Site of the Day - August 3, 2008

[AskMen.com] August 3, 2008

AskMen.com Rates OVGuide.com: 9 / 10 - OVGuide.com is your guide to everything TV and movie related online...Some movie sites claim to have it all, but OVGuide.com really does...

With 10 Million Monthly Uniques, A New "TV Guide" for Online Video Emerges and it is Impressive

[Beet.tv] June 22, 2008

The OVGuide indexes and highlights some 1800 episodic online video programs. It is powered by a staff of editors and a video search technology. While it has operated largely under the radar, it has become quite popular....

Amid rush to sign online talent, agencies
ponder how to profit

[USA Today] May 30, 2008

...In these dorm-room-style digs - unused foosball table, joke poster of O.J. Simpson - the young scouts who make up the talent agency's 2-year-old Web division, UTA Online, have been feverishly signing up dozens of digital mavericks in hopes of finding that rare bright light who can build a lucrative entertainment enterprise...

OVGuide, combing through the online video haystack

[Los Angeles Times] May 23, 2008

...for a glimpse at an online video site that really does resemble Google, see Beverly Hills-based OVGuide. Actually, it's a cross between Google and Yahoo -- a hybrid of a search engine tuned to find videos online and a directory of video sites organized by genre...

OVGuide Is Putting a Focus on Web Video Sites

[Los Angeles Business Journal] May 12, 2008

As video Web sites from user-generated YouTube to studio-approved Hulu get more hits every day, it makes sense that a site like OVGuide.com would emerge. It can serve as a one-stop index to video sites across cyberspace...

OVGuide: the Baskin-Robbins of the Web

[The Daily Athenaeum] March 3, 2008

In 1999, Napster was the latest sensation. In the course of about a month, the words, "I'll just download it" could be heard in middle school cafeterias and college dorm rooms alike. Practically overnight, the concept of paying for music became obsolete...

Writer's Strike Ends, Viewers To Get Network Shows Again

[Information Week] February 16, 2008

...The Writers Guild of America voted Tuesday to end a strike that entered its fourth month and caused a work slowdown for related industries, especially in New York and California, where caterers, truck drivers, and other workers support and rely on the film industry. It also affected viewers' Internet habits, according to Chad Cooper, from the online video guide, OVGuide.com...

OVGuide.com - The Best Site You've Never Heard Of

[laist.com] Jan 25, 2008

Can I just say that after giving up TV, I have had a bitch of a time trying to find Family Guy and Sex and the City episodes (which I have recently gotten re-addicted to over the Christmas holiday) online. I found a solution (and something else to get addicted to OVGuide.com. OVG is now on my Firefox toolbar and that's a big deal to me, though maybe not you because you don't know how important something has to be to me to land a spot on that toolbar...

Interview with David Bohnett, OVGuide.com

[SoCalTech.com] Jan 9, 2008

Our interview today is with David Bohnett, CEO of OVGuide.com (www.ovguide.com), a Los Angeles-based web site which has created an online guide to video, TV shows, and other content on the web...

OVGuide Selected by TIME as a Top 10 Best
Website of the Year

[TIME] Dec 28, 2006

If you've watched all of YouTube's hundred-million-and-counting videos and still have some time to spare, unglue your eyes from the computer monitor, get up, stretch, and then come back and check out this site. Online Video Guide connects users with video content from YouTube and dozens of other video providers. You can search or browse by provider or category. Some of the video sites accessible from Online Video Guide you may not have heard of include video-sharing sites photobucket and vidiLife, but you can also look up professional clips from the History Channel, Oprah, and the major television networks, just to name a few...