Are These New Startups The Future Of Media?

The next big -- and profitable -- thing in media will be more of Tumblr-style platform than a BuzzFeed-style content creator. At least, that’s the $300,000-wager of Matter, a media accelerator which just revealed the six media start-ups who will receive $50,000 each in seed funding, plus training and support during a four-month boot-camp in San Francisco. Those companies are:

• ChannelMeter, a video analytics platform.
• InkFold, a social news reader. OpenWatch, a reverse-surveillance platform to monitor authorities.
• SpokenLayer, a service that transforms written articles into narrated audio.
• StationCreator, a platform for online TV stations.
• Zeega, a multimedia publishing platform.