Watch-Party Startup Scener Now Supports 10 Streaming Platforms, Raises $2.1 Million

guest · Oct 2, 2020

Watch-Party Startup Scener Now Supports 10 Streaming Platforms, Raises $2.1 Million
October 1, 2020
https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/scener-watch-party-disney-plus-hbo-max-netflix-1234787891/

Scener, the startup whose co-viewing watch parties are available across 10 streaming platforms (and counting) is hoping to keep up the momentum it’s seen during the COVID pandemic.

Scener has been at this for more than two years. But watch parties have hit a quarantine-driven boom, with Disney Plus, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video among those that have recently introduced such watch-together features.
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Launched in 2018, Seattle-based Scener first provided a web-browser overlay for Netflix, letting friends watch a TV show or movie together and chat in real time. Since then, the company has expanded to support multiple platforms, including Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Funimation, Vimeo, YouTube, Alamo On Demand and Disney’s Hotstar.

Now, with a new tranche of $2.1 million funding, Scener expects to launch support for connected TVs and mobile apps later in 2020 as well as scale up its “virtual theater” platform to support as many as 1 million concurrent viewers.

“We’re just getting started,” said Scener COO Joe Braidwood. “We are at a really exciting inflection point, where Scener has become the de facto go-to for co-viewing.”
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Meet Scener: Social-Video Commentary Startup Rides on Top of Netflix, Hulu Content (September 5, 2018)

Here comes a new way to watch TV shows and movies: Startup Scener is coming out of stealth mode and launching a service that lets you provide your own color commentary over Netflix, Hulu and YouTube streaming video and gives viewers the chance to interact in real-time.

The free Scener service, which goes live Sept. 5 at scener.com, lets anyone create, share and watch picture-in-picture reaction commentary videos synced with streaming programming.
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