Web EPGs
Web TV Guide on the Guardian
TV Genius’ web components make it simple to build a web TV guide with all of the functionality of The TV Genius content discovery platform. Any developer with knowledge of CSS and JavaScript can develop a rich TV Guide within a few weeks.
Functionality includes the standard display of TV listings in a grid format, views of an individual channels, search results, email reminders, and personalistion according to favourite channels, shows, or topics. Log-in is integrated with the main login of the site to ensure a seamless user experience.
As well as providing a platform for developing web content that users return to on a regular basis, the platform supports targeted advertising to maximise the revenues that can be achieved on the site.
You can see live deployments of web TV guides at:
- ITV’s TV Guide – www.itv.com/tvguide
- The Guardian – tvlistings.guardian.co.uk
- ArenaSAT – www.arena.tv/epg
We also provide development services, where our expert front-end developers can design and build it for you. You can read full details in our white paper case study of ITV.com
Key features
- Completely customisable ‒ Look-and feel of your branding, with the high performance TV Genius platform on the back-end
- Embedded within your site ‒ The user experience is fully transparent with no need for separate URLs, iFrames, or other methods that can cause security risks and expose your users to Phishing attacks
- Fully managed ‒ All channel and data updates handled within the platform so you don’t need to worry about adding or renaming channels as they launch or rebrand
- Free enhancements ‒ Regular platform updates provide ongoing enhancement to the site without the need for development from your side
- Enhanced functionality ‒ Enhanced functionality includes allowing the aggregation of content from a variety of sources, including IPTV and remote PVR recording.
