Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best New York City based Digital Entertainment companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Digital Entertainment industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top New York City Digital Entertainment Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
BuzzFeed
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BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.
Group Nine Media
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Group Nine Media is a digital-first media company that boasts nearly 4 billion video views every month.
fuboTV
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fuboTV is the sports-focused live TV streaming service with top leagues and teams, plus popular shows, movies and news for the whole family.
Vindex
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Vindex is a global esports and technology company that serves as the connective tissue between games and gamers.
Superfly
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Superfly is an entertainment company and creative agency with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Chicago.
ViewLift
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An End to End Solution For Content Distribution and Monetization
Brat
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Brat is a teen-leaning digital production company.
Mediamorph
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Mediamorph’s mission is to boost business performance and accelerate content value across the entertainment ecosystem.
DEFY Media
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DEFY is the definitive media company for the digital generation.
Serial Box
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Serial Box is an entertainment company that provides serialized entertainment for readers and listeners.
Arkadium
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We’re the creators behind the world’s most played games.
Breaker (SingularDTV)
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A decentralized global distribution platform empowers artists with a fairer, transparent monetization model through blockchain technology.
Warner Music Group
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Warner Music Group is a music company with the interests of recording and publishing music and artist services.
Voyceme
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VoyceMe is the first English original platform for manga, webcomics, and light novels!
FilmNation Entertainment
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FilmNation Entertainment is a motion pictures company that offers film distribution and film production services.
Comixology
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Comixology delivers a cloud-based digital comics platform that enables users to discover, buy, and read comics.
Discovery
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Discovery is a multinational mass media factual television company covering science, history, geography, survival, and more.
DEVAR
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Technology company engaged in development in the field of augmented and mixed reality. We are developing platforms for children and adults.
Love Stories TV
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Love Stories TV is a video-powered marketplace for wedding planning.
Megaphone TV
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Megaphone TV creates interactive storytelling moments and transactional ad campaigns through live polling, trivia and social integration.
Above Average
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Above Average is a multi-disciplinary entertainment company that creates original, premium programming for networks, brands, and fans.
Sportsrocket
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Sportsrocket is a New York-based company working to give sports fans access to live games and events, highlights, and shows.
Roc Nation
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Roc Nation is a full-service entertainment company that specializes in social, music, and media industry.
TIDAL
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TIDAL is a music and entertainment platform that creates connects artists and fans, giving them exclusive access to high-profile content.
Pip’s Island
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Pip’s Island is an unparalleled, groundbreaking, immersive play experience.
beastcoast
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Beastcoast is an online esports game organizer that specializes in organizing games and tournaments based on players’ interests.
TheNextUnicorn.us
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The Next Unicorn Action-Platform & TV Show focuses on startup companies raising capital via equity-crowdfunding. Anyone Can Now Invest!
Spectrum
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Spectrum (Time Warner Cable) is a cable telecommunications company that offers a range of home entertainment and information services.
Scream BOX
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Scream BOX is a subscription horror movie channel.
Theory Entertainment
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Theory Entertainment operates as an entertainment company.
Viggle, Inc.
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A mobile and web-based entertainment marketing platform that uses incentives to make content consumption and discovery more rewarding.
Show-Score
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Show-Score is like a Rotten Tomatoes for theater.
Muse Paintbar
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Muse Paintbar is an entertainment company that provides bar and painting services.
GoWatchIt
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GoWatchIt develops products, partnerships and strategies to capitalize on the historic transition in home entertainment.
WeDemand
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WeDemand is a digital platform that powers fan driven live events across the world
Showtime
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Showtime is an American premium cable and satellite television network.
Metro
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Metro is a free daily newspaper written and designed for young and ambitious professionals.
Section 101
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Section 101 is a website platform for the music, entertainment and advocacy industries.
818 Sports & Entertainment
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818 Sports and Entertainment is a technology startup focused on live sport.
Weston Swinger Media Holdings Inc.
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A fully functional Media company dealing in Film, TV, Event Planning via Commercials space and Full Production.
Tengrade
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Tengrade offers a social rating tool that enables users to rate topics from various subjects and find out the opinions of other users.
Primary Wave
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Primary Wave is a provider of full service entertainment company with expertise in talent, literary and music management.
Vocal
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Vocal is a platform to discover and support creators.
DOWNKORE
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DOWNKORE is a community platform for the global dance community.
Endless Riff Entertainment
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Endless Riff is a cross-platform live music VR consumption and distribution platform.
Disney Streaming Services
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Disney Streaming Services offers streaming entertainment and services for sports and stories.
Spike
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Spike delivers original entertainment that informs, engages, inspires and above all push the boundaries.
Extension Entertainment
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Extension Entertainment is a social music discovery platform that allows users to find and share music.
Paiksaehyun
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Paiksaehyun specializes in the fields of art and media.
Heavy Inc.
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Heavy is today’s platform for the most sought-after news and information.
Atlantic Records
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Atlantic Records is a record label that helps musicians develop and sell their music.
Ant Media
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Ant Media provides solutions that specialize in live video streaming.
Rochestor
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Rochestor Music Group is a full service digital entertainment company, shuffling between talent management, production, distribution, and creative.
Columbia Records
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Columbia Records is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, engaged in music production and distribution.
New Line Cinema
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New Line Cinema operates as a fully integrated broad-based entertainment company.
Hype Mob
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Hype Mob is a premier sports entertainment, media, and lifestyle brand, built for Gen Z.
Lima Sky
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Lima Sky develops entertaining and educational apps for the iPhone and iPad, focusing on entertainment apps for kids.
NOW//with
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NOW//with is a next generation shoppable content destination to watch, discover and seamlessly shop
United Entertainment Group
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United Entertainment Group is a marketing agency specializing in entertainment, sports & brand experiences.
Game Trust
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Game Trust offers infrastructure for community and commerce apps in the online games and entertainment industry.
Department Studios
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Department Studios is an entertainment company with a mission to create original immersive entertainment phenomena.
Proathlete TV
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Proathlete TV is a media network that features the life of professional athletes.
Concrete Media
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Concrete Media is a cross-team planning platform that manages projects, plans, people, and content all from one place in the cloud.
Hearst Entertainment
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The cable network and TV production division of Hearst Corporation
VAB
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VAB navigates the data-fueled world through industry-defining insights & custom analyses, addressing challenges, & inspiring conversations.
VUniverse
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VUniverse is a personalized mobile, web , and TV app that helps people find movies and shows they love.
RadicalMedia LLC
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A global studio that creates some of the world’s most innovative content across all platforms of media.
Anonymous Content
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Anonymous Content is a production and management company dealing in entertainment industry.
Fleaflicker
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Fleaflicker is the world’s easiest and fastest fantasy sports platform.
RCA Music Group
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RCA Music Group is a major record label which distributes and markets music for artists across all genres.
Simkl
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SIMKL TV Tracker Combines All Your Queues Into One. Simkl TV Tracker automatically tracks your watched TV Shows, Anime and Movies.
Blingby
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Video and Live-Streaming Interactive Technology that also offers programmatic-ready ad units
One Day University
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One Day University with the country’s most popular professors to develop entertaining versions of their best lectures.
TodayTix Group (TTG)
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TodayTix Group (TTG) is the go-to global partner for theatres next big show.
Games for Change
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Games for Change is a community that facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games.
Lifetime Entertainment Services
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Lifetime Entertainment Services is a television network that creates original drama entertainment.
Moxie Pictures
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Moxie Pictures is a bi-coastal US based company focusing on ad-commercials and music videos.
