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Type of site | TV tracker, social network |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Registration | Free |
| Launched | 2011 |
| Current status | Active |
| Stable release | 8.40 |
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| Operating system | iOS, Android |
| Website | www |
TV Time (formerly TVShow Time) is a tracking platform and social television network for TV and movies, available in app and desktop forms. Using TheTVDB as a data source, it allows users to store information about their media consumption and leave reviews. [1]
| 2012 | TV Time launches as TVShow Time in Paris, France. |
| 2016 | Whip Networks, a Santa Monica, CA based start-up, acquires TVShow Time. |
| 2017 | TVShow Time rebrands as TV Time. |
| 2018 | TV Time launches TVLytics, an insights platform for media companies. |
| 2019 | TV Time acquires its online metadata source, TheTVDB. |
| 2019 | TV Time adds Movies and a dark mode feature. |
| 2019 | TV Time acquires Mediamorph. |
Every registered TV Time user has their own profile. When a user opens the app, four tabs appear at the bottom of the screen: Shows, Movies, Discover and Profile. [1]
The app offers an explore feature which allows users to discover new shows according to different criterion, such as genre and popularity.
TV Time is currently available in fourteen languages: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Users are able to filter their preferred languages in the app so they only see comments and reactions from the community in the languages they choose.
Media outlets noted interest in TV Time's service as an analytics tool in the era of streaming, which makes it difficult to prove a television series' popularity and viewership since streaming services do not necessarily make that information public. In 2018, Variety cited the website's TVLytics data as one of the reasons for Netflix to sign a $100M deal with Warner Bros. Television to maintain the American sitcom Friends on its online library until 2019. [2] [3] The same year, United Talents Agency signed a deal with TV Time that granted them access to their data, in an effort to gain a deeper understanding into the content audiences were engaging with the most and how they were consuming it. According to TV Time CEO Richard Rosenblatt this would "[allow them to] recognize what shows are potentially going to be popular, what shows people will be binging, what moments really engaged the fans." [4]
Some television personalities such as Álvaro Morte and Omar Sy have showed interest in TV Time's statistics on social media, the former reacting to his character on the Spanish television series Money Heist being featured in the Top 10 Most Voted Character of 2020 and the latter reacting to the French television series Lupin being number 1 on the Most Binged TV Series list on the week of its release. [5] [6]
In 2021, TV Time won "Best Entertainment App" at The Webby Awards in the "People's Voice" category. [7]
As of March 9, 2023, the most followed television shows on TV Time are: [8]
| Rank | Change | Title | Followers | Original Network | Status | Seasons | Active Years | Country of origin | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Stranger Things | 7,070,815 | Netflix | Continuing | 4 | 2016 – present |  USA | [9] |
| 2 | | Game of Thrones | 5,778,874 | HBO | Ended | 8 | 2011 – 2019 | USA | [10] |
| 3 | | The Walking Dead | 5,219,022 | AMC | Ended | 11 | 2010 – 2022 | USA | [11] |
| 4 | | 13 Reasons Why | 4,699,800 | Netflix | Ended | 4 | 2017 – 2020 | USA | [12] |
| 5 |  | Riverdale | 4,488,872 | The CW | Ended | 7 | 2017 – 2023 | USA | [13] |
| 6 |  | Money Heist | 4,450,122 | Antena 3 Netflix | Ended | 3 | 2017 – 2021 |  SPA | [14] |
| 7 | | Grey's Anatomy | 4,078,119 | ABC | Continuing | 20 | 2005 – present | USA | [15] |
| 8 | | The 100 | 3,935,029 | The CW | Ended | 7 | 2014 – 2020 | USA | [16] |
| 9 | | Lucifer | 3,617,034 | FOX Netflix | Ended | 6 | 2016 – 2021 | USA | [17] |
| 10 | | Sex Education | 3,802,484 | Netflix | Ended | 4 | 2019 – 2023 |  UK | [18] |
| 11 | | The Flash | 3,748,570 | The CW | Ended | 9 | 2014 – 2023 | USA | [19] |
| 12 | | Orange Is the New Black | 3,329,375 | Netflix | Ended | 7 | 2013 – 2019 | USA | [20] |
| 13 | | Elite | 3,299,012 | Netflix | Continuing | 6 | 2018 – present | SPA | [21] |
| 14 | | Black Mirror | 3,249,918 | Channel 4 Netflix | Continuing | 6 | 2011 – present | UK | [22] |
| 15 | | You | 3,119,988 | Lifetime Netflix | Continuing | 4 | 2018 – present | USA | [23] |
| 16 | | Breaking Bad | 3,113,540 | AMC | Ended | 5 | 2008 – 2013 | USA | [24] |
| 17 | | Vikings | 3,059,751 | History | Ended | 6 | 2013 – 2021 |  CAN  IRE | [25] |
| 18 | | The Simpsons | 3,032,204 | FOX | Continuing | 35 | 1989 – present | USA | [26] |
| 19 | | Arrow | 3,017,459 | The CW | Ended | 8 | 2012 – 2020 | USA | [27] |
| 20 | | The Big Bang Theory | 2,942,137 | CBS | Ended | 12 | 2007 – 2019 | USA | [28] |
As of January 23, 2024, the most followed films on TV Time are: [29]
| Rank | Change | Title | Followers | Genre | Director | Year | Country of origin | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 4.9 million | Fantasy drama | Chris Columbus | 2002 | UK USA | [30] |
| 2 | | Titanic | 4.8 million | Epic romance and disaster | James Cameron | 1997 | USA | [31] |
| 3 | | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 4.4 million | Fantasy drama | Alfonso Cuarón | 2004 | UK USA | [32] |
| 4 | | Avengers: Endgame | 4.2 million | Superhero | Russo brothers | 2019 | USA | [33] |
| 5 | | Frozen | 4.2 million | Animated fantasy musical | Chris Buck Jennifer Lee | 2013 | USA | [34] |
| 6 | | Deadpool | 4.0 million | Superhero | Tim Miller | 2016 | USA | [35] |
| 7 | | The Lion King | 3.6 million | Musical drama | Jon Favreau | 2019 | USA | [36] |
| 8 | | Joker | 3.3 million | Psychological thriller | Todd Phillips | 2019 | USA | [37] |
| 9 | | Black Panther | 3.2 million | Superhero | Ryan Coogler | 2018 | USA | [38] |
| 10 | | Spider-Man: Homecoming | 3.1 million | Superhero | Jon Watts | 2017 | USA | [39] |
TV Time offers weekly reports of the "most binged" TV series on their platform which are made public on the app's social medias. For the series to be considered as "binged" by a user, 4 episodes of it must have been watched in a row in the same day. The website calls this a "binge session." [40] Since 2018, TV Time publishes the top 10 most binged series during the year. In 2019, Lucifer was reported to be the number 1 series for the longest in the report's history, with 8 consecutive weeks.
The following chart shows the "most binged" series of every year as reported by TV Time.
| Year | TV Series | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Friends [41] [40] | 2.36% |
| 2019 | Lucifer [42] | 2.45% |
| 2020 | Friends [43] | 1.66% |
On September 21, 2021, TV Time announced its new Streaming Originals report. Similar to The Binge Report, the Streaming Originals report shows a list of the most tracked series every week, but only the ones whose provider is a streaming service.
TV Time uses TheTVDB's database as a source of information for all shows and movies in its library. Initially an independent website, The TVDB was acquired by TV Time in 2019. Users can edit information about TV series such as characters, airing dates, networks and more on this database if they have a registered account.
The app developer provides information on the data that may be collected by the TV Time app and/or shared with third parties on the app listings in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
On the Google Play Store, it is declared that the TV Time app may collect and/or share approximate location data, email addresses, user identifiers, app interactions, diagnostics data, and device identifiers. [44]
The Apple App Store listing of the app states that it may collect and/or share contact info, diagnostics, usage data, identifiers, and user content. [45]
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