TV Pixie is an award-winning UK website about television programmes founded in 2009.

History

TV Pixie was founded by Alex Guest after he left Zattoo

Zattoo

Zattoo is an Internet Protocol Television system, with offices located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and in Zurich, Switzerland. It is available on computer, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and runs on the operating systems Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X and Linux. The basic resolution for channels is...

, where he was the UK country manager, in 2009. The site was conceived as an ad-funded portal for television viewers to discover new TV programmes and to read reviews.

In November 2011, TV Pixie's blog was ranked 140th out of 4,935 television-related sites globally by Technorati

Technorati

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, putting TV Pixie's blog ahead of The Guardian

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 newspaper's TV and radio blog, ranked 210th.

Awards

The company was one of the winners of the IC Tomorrow competition run by the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board

Technology Strategy Board

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