Are You Watching This?!

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Are You Watching This?!
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Type of business Private
Type of site
 Technology
Founded Austin, Texas United States (2006 (2006))
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
,
United States
Founder
  • Mark Phillip
Industry Sports
Employees3
URL areyouwatchingthis.com
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Current statusActive

Are You Watching This?! (RUWT?! [1] ) is an Austin, Texas-based Sports Excitement Analytics company that uses algorithms to identify sporting events that viewers would find exciting or compelling. It was founded by Mark Phillip. [2]

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Overview

RUWT?! was founded in 2006, [3] launched publicly in 2007. [4]

The service uses algorithms to analyze live game data and determine if games are exciting. [5]

Despite having a consumer-facing website, the company focuses on licensing excitement data via its API to larger companies. [6] [7]

A patent for a Rating system for identifying exciting sporting events and notifying users was filed by RUWT?! in 2007 and was granted on August 23, 2016. [8] The patent expires on July 17, 2033. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Daw, David (October 23, 2011). "10 Twitter Bot Services to Simplify Your Life". PCWorld. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Mark Phillip LinkedIn" . Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  3. ↑ Naone, Erica (January 28, 2011). "Catching Classic Sports Moments as They're Happening". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ Porges, Seth (February 5, 2007). "Sports + TVGuide + Digg = RUWT?". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  5. ↑ Naone, Erica (March 15, 2010). "Startups Focus on AI at South by Southwest". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  6. ↑ McHugh, Molly (March 15, 2012). "Are you watching RUWT?!: The sports app that wants to power better content consumption". Digital Trends. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ Harris, Derrick (March 1, 2012). "How one sports geek wants to save cable TV with data". Gigaom. Archived from the original on May 6, 2013. Retrieved March 3, 2017.
  8. 1 2 "Rating system for identifying exciting sporting events and notifying users" . Retrieved March 3, 2017.
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