Free TV series tracking service
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.
Features.
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".
Discover.
The app offers an explore feature which allows users to discover new shows according to different criterion, such as genre and popularity.
Languages.
"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.
Reception.
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. 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."
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.
Awards.
In 2021, "TV Time" won "Best Entertainment App" at "The Webby Awards" in the "People's Voice" category.
Statistics.
Most followed television series.
As of March 9, 2023, the most followed television shows on "TV Time" are:
Most followed films.
As of January 23, 2024, the most followed films on "TV Time" are:
Binge Reports.
"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." 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".
Streaming Originals.
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.
Database.
"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.
User privacy.
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.
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.
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