Founded 2009 Marion, Iowa  |  NYC, New York

Our Company

Founded by CEO Jack Perry in 2009, Syncbak powers the industry’s most successful OTT solutions, including live streaming for Paramount Plus, Hulu, fuboTV, the NFL and more. Syncbak’s end-to-end platform, SimpleSync, enables television broadcasters and content owners to launch, manage, distribute and monetize their content by delivering their streams to multiple live and on-demand streaming destinations across OTT platforms nationwide. Syncbak’s own direct-to-consumer OTT app, VUit, leverages SimpleSync, and its proprietary DAI technology, AdSync, to deliver free, hyper-local and originally produced content to viewers anytime, anywhere and on any device.

Syncbak’s technology currently reaches 99 percent of the US population across 209 markets, representing 67 Station Groups and all major networks, including CBS, ABC, FOX, NBC and The CW.

New York Office

1032 6th Avenue #403
New York, NY 10018
212.301.0667

Headquarters

1 Research Center
Marion, IA 52302
319.892.3022

Jack Perry

Founder & CEO

  • Founded Syncbak in March of 2009
  • Inducted into the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers
  • Nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Industry Leadership)
  • Elected to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
  • Holds twenty-four patents related to the delivery of content over-the-air, over-satellite and over-the-Internet
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Company Milestones

March 2009

Founded by Jack Perry

February 2010

Syncbak raises capital from initial investors, including the NAB and CEA

August 2012

Syncbak is awarded the first 8 patents for technology that authenticates Internet delivery of OTA broadcast television; market trials begin in earnest across the US.

April 2013

Syncbak receives strategic partnership/investment from CBS; market installs increase to include 55 major broadcast group owners

May 2013

Nielsen integration completed making the Syncbak platform the first measurable OTT system

October 2014

Launch of CBS All Access with CBS owned stations and framework for launching all CBS affiliates.

April 2016

Syncbak receives investments from Gray Television and Morgan Murphy

October 2016

Gray Television launches with new Syncbak services

November 2016

Sony Playstation Vue launches with live streams powered by Syncbak

May 2017

Hulu launches with live streams powered by Syncbak

August 2017

fuboTV launches with live streams powered by Syncbak

May 2018

Direct-to-consumer play SBTV is launched, including first-ever straight to OTT broadcast

September 2018

AdSync DAI technology launches, avails ~50 million and growing monthly

January 2019

SBTV's MarketSync content marketplace launches; Gray Television's newly-acquired Raycom stations on-board to SBTV

February 2019

Syncbak outgrows corporate headquarters in Cedar Rapids, IA; plans for rapid expansion with purchase of new corporate office in Marion, IA.

March 2019

Syncbak sets up new world headquarters at 1 Research Center in Marion, Iowa.

April 2019

Syncbak live streams first-ever straight-to-OTT concert nationwide on SBTV from NAB in Las Vegas; Morgan Murphy Media launches first-ever 24/7 drone channel for OTT on SBTV

February 2020

Syncbak redesigned their proprietary universal transcoder and named it the Syncbox 2309

September 2020

Syncbak launches VUit, a centralized national streaming service of local television stations and other content partners aiming to be the Netflix of live, local and free

February 2021

Syncbak powered the streams for Super Bowl LV, the most-streamed NFL game ever

June 2021

Syncbak launches Main Event Fridays on VUit from our newly remodeled eSports arena