Colin Petrie-Norris’ Post

And that’s a wrap. Today is my last day with Xumo It’s been a magical nearly 12 years for me since the start, and in having a little to do with this whole #FAST / Free TV thing. I think it’s pretty unique and special to have started a business that got sold 3 times: Once to Panasonic (JV), again to Comcast and then again to Charter Communications. Some great memories (to name but a few) - Wrangling with Panasonic for nearly a year to put the initial JV deal together, including meeting this JIRO EGAWA fellow who became the best business partner one could imagine, and the one taking my place as I move on. - Hail-Mary flights to Korea and (very) late night drinking sessions to put the first FAST deal in place with an OEM. - Visiting ad agencies around the US carrying our TV in a bag to do demos. was SO glad when the little lightweight 32” came out rather than the heavy 42”. I loved how powerful this technique was compared to using slide decks. - Becoming a button on a remote control of a major TV brand, displacing a major streaming superpower when we were less than 40 people.  - The “survival” years when the business was growing so fast that cash-flow management became an adrenaline sport. - End of year celebrations of beating goals, including one very special all-hands trip to San Diego and seeing the Xumo name up in lights. - Sale of the business to Comcast. Late nights managing due-diligence and in the daytime running the business. Wow! Incredible. - Taking on the traditional Title 6 video world with responsibility for all of Xfinity's streaming platforms, and the beginnings of the idea that led to the next chapter. - Announcing Xumo - the new Charter + Comcast joint venture which will change the streaming world for the better, including our first Xumo-branded retail TV’s and Stream Boxes. Most of all, it’s the people that make it special, the Xumo team that made it all happen – the ones I am most grateful for. The battles, the wins, the ups and downs, the business partners who saw something valuable in this idea and took a leap of faith to work with us when we were very small and continue to be excited about the business now it’s getting a little bigger. Thanks so much to all… 

How could you possibly make a #FAST channel even better? Not possible you say? Well, now our Xumo built channels can now cut to a LIVE feed and back to curated content... a brilliant new feature now available from Xumo Enterprise for our content partners. Thanks to our amazing friends at PGA TOUR - who are now incorporating live programming into the PGA Tour FAST channels to Xumo Play and also to our platform partners. Here's a mention of it in Comcast's announcement just yesterday... https://lnkd.in/gthVww9B

Ok, so you may by now have heard of this Xumo thing we've been working on for a bit. In addition to be one of the very few companies resposible for the start of the #fast industry - we're now in the OS business in North America with partners like Comcast, Spectrum and Mediacom Communications shipping Xumo Devices, and our TV's being sold through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart. Now - if you're in the North American Ad Sales business, and you fancy being part of this story, are champing at the bit to do something truly special and know a thing or two about leading the best team in the business - come and have a chat with us about one of these two new exec team positions (with more to come soon)...  https://lnkd.in/gEfx6MVM https://lnkd.in/ghVAR6ph

Some great holiday season news - Comcast has launched our new Xumo Stream Box to their broadband customers, adding to Spectrum's efforts from earlier this quarter. Having the two largest media and telecommunications companies in the US carry the Xumo suite of products is a major milestone - big thanks to the Teams at Xfinity for this one! https://lnkd.in/gq8mbGbG

Hello all - some more great news for Xumo and Mediacom Communications as a new partner for our Xumo Streambox - just announced today. We’re really excited about delivering our experience with easier content discovery to their customer base. https://lnkd.in/eZWuc7BN

Xumo Stream Box in the wild this morning in Spectrum stores … photo credit Joseph Lerner !