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margin-top: 40px; padding:0px; } #privacy_content_inner { margin: 0px; } #privacy_content_inner b { color: #ff8335; margin-bottom: 20px; display:block; margin-top: 30px; } #privacy_content_inner strong { color: #1c6593; font-weight: bold; display:block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 40px; } #privacy_content_inner a { color: brown; } @media screen and (min-width: 800px) { #privacy_content_inner { margin: 30px; margin-top: 0px; } } </style> <div id="privacy_content"><div id="privacy_content_inner"> <h1 style="font-size: 18px;"><b>About Us</b></h1> Next Episode is a 20 year old website and community dedicated to helping you organize and keep track of your favorite TV shows and movies. <br><br> Started as a personal passion project by it's founder - Nikolay Nachev (back in 2005), Next Episode quickly grew into a useful tool that thousands of users rely on daily to keep track of the TV shows they watch and to discover new ones they'll love. <h2 style="font-size: 18px;"><b>The Team</b></h2> With the help of some long-time users and volunteers, Nikolay is still actively maintaining and developing the website and the Next Episode <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/next-episode/id347009526?mt=8">iOS</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nextepisode.android&hl=en&gl=US">Android</a> apps. You can follow him on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolay-nachev-595366b">LinkedIn</a> or <a href="https://www.twitter.com/santah">Twitter</a> or just get in touch by <a href="https://next-episode.net/msg/compose/santah/">sending him a message</a> here, on the website. <h2 style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Our Mission</b></h2> To bring you the best tools and experience tracking your TV shows and movies. We try to keep Next Episode clutter free, no bells and whistless and no nonsense features. Simple, functional, consistent. <br><br> We moderate aggressively for spam and manually approve and check each and every show added to the service. Extra features like TV show trailers are also hand picked and regularly checked for dead / restricted videos and fixed so you have the best experience possible. <h2 style="font-size: 18px;"><b>Want to help?</b></h2> Easiest way to support Next Episode is to get <a href="https://next-episode.net/premium">Next Episode Premium</a>.<br><br>It's an annual subscription that removes ads and unlocks a ton of features on the site - like email and site notifications, all discovery charts, following actors/creators/shows and receiving notifications for that, exporting your calendar to iCal or Google calendar, RSS feeds and many, many more site tweaks and features. <br><br> If you have something else in mind - just <a href="https://next-episode.net/feedback/">get in touch</a>. We respond right away! <br><br> <div id="faq_page" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/FAQPage"> <h2 style="font-size: 18px;"><b>FAQ</b></h2> <div itemscope itemprop="mainEntity" itemtype="https://schema.org/Question"> <strong itemprop="name">How do I watch, stream or download a TV show or movie?</strong> <div itemscope itemprop="acceptedAnswer" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div itemprop="text"> Next Episode does not offer any content for downloading and/or streaming. We do, however, make it easy for you to find where your favorite shows and movies are streamed and available to watch. Just go to the show page, for example <a href="https://next-episode.net/the-last-of-us">here</a> and check out the "Stream on" section. This can be customized by country! </div> </div> </div> <div itemscope itemprop="mainEntity" itemtype="https://schema.org/Question"> <strong itemprop="name">What is this site for?</strong> <div itemscope itemprop="acceptedAnswer" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div itemprop="text"> Next Episode keeps a list of the TV shows and movies you follow and via various tools helps you keep an eye on what has aired and what not and track what's watched. It also offers many (filterable and customizable) discovery charts to help you find the next great thing to watch. </div> </div> </div> <div itemscope itemprop="mainEntity" itemtype="https://schema.org/Question"> <strong itemprop="name">What kind of notifications can I get for my TV shows and movies?</strong> <div itemscope itemprop="acceptedAnswer" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div itemprop="text"> We offer various email and site notifications like new episodes, season premieres, new trailers, new shows from favorite creators or actors and much more. The mobile apps can even notify you for upcoming (15 minutes before airing) episodes. </div> </div> </div> <div itemscope itemprop="mainEntity" itemtype="https://schema.org/Question"> <strong itemprop="name">Is the TV calendar customizable?</strong> <div itemscope itemprop="acceptedAnswer" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div itemprop="text"> By default the TV clendar displays only TV series from your watchlist. You can also include your Movies in there or shows that are not in your watchlist. Many other little tweaks are also available through the "customize" button. </div> </div> </div> <div itemscope itemprop="mainEntity" itemtype="https://schema.org/Question"> <strong itemprop="name">Can I export the TV calendar do Goolge Calendar or iCal?</strong> <div itemscope itemprop="acceptedAnswer" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div itemprop="text"> Yes. Just go to the <a href="https://next-episode.net/calendar/">calendar page</a> and find the Export link. You can copy/import that link to Google calendar or any other calendar service you use. It's an automatically updating calendar feed tailored with the TV shows and movies from your watchlist! </div> </div> </div> <div itemscope itemprop="mainEntity" itemtype="https://schema.org/Question"> <strong itemprop="name">Where does the data come from?</strong> <div itemscope itemprop="acceptedAnswer" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div itemprop="text"> Next Episode uses the officially provided APIs of <a href="https://thetvdb.com">thetvdb.com</a> and <a href="https://tvmaze.com">tvmaze.com</a> to fetch information about TV shows and <a href="https://themoviedb.com">themoviedb.com</a> for the movies. <br><br> Each request for a new show is manually verified and some of the data is hand picked as well (like shows images, youtube trailers, show creators, some show descriptions and alternate names etc). <br><br> Show ratings and suggestions ("you may also like") are generated by our users and all discovery charts are based on our own usage and algoritms. </div> </div> </div> <div itemscope itemprop="mainEntity" itemtype="https://schema.org/Question"> <strong itemprop="name">How do I add a missing show?</strong> <div itemscope itemprop="acceptedAnswer" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div itemprop="text"> We have a page for that. Simply request the show to be added <a href="https://next-episode.net/submit/">here</a>. </div> </div> </div> <div itemscope itemprop="mainEntity" itemtype="https://schema.org/Question"> <strong itemprop="name">How do I track which episodes I've watched?</strong> <div itemscope itemprop="acceptedAnswer" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div itemprop="text"> Easy (well, that's the main point of this service, right?) - you just open the <a href="https://next-episode.net/track">Episodes</a> page (from the main menu of the site) and click the little [-] icon infront of every episode you want to mark watched. 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