Comcast didn’t have to look very far to find its most recent acquisition. It just looked over the street to Philadelphia-based sports technology and data company OneTwoSee, which has offices right across from the Comcast Center.
“OneTwoSee has played a huge role in our efforts to make X1 an awesome place for sports fans,” Preston Smalley, VP of product, sports and X1 apps, posts in a blog. “In the past year, we’ve worked with them to reengineer our X1 sports app — initially launched with the platform to help fans check scores, standings, and schedules for games – into an interactive and immersive companion experience giving fans more data and statistics than ever before.”
Usage of the sports app is now up fivefold from the winter of 2015 and is used by one in four of the company’s X1 households on a weekly basis, Smalley reports.
“In the early days of OneTwoSee, Comcast showed confidence in our four-person team by becoming our first commercial customer and our relationship has continued to flourish through the growth of the X1 platform and as we look to the future we see limitless opportunities to keep innovating,” Chris Reynolds, cofounder and CEO of OneTwoSee, adds. “We’ll do this on the first screen through X1, but we also won’t abandon the opportunities this type of technology presents on the second screen and we’re going to continue to support our existing partners in that space as well.”