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EXCLUSIVE: David Baron, a member of Hulu’s original launch team in 2007 who went on to have a 14-year run with the streaming pioneer, has been named CEO of social viewing startup Scener. The Seattle-based company has also has added filmmaker and producer J.J. Abrams as an investor and member of its advisory board…

HBO Max has enlisted group viewing platform Scener to host an exclusive, live watch party of Zack Snyder’s Justice League on the evening of its March 18 debut. The event, which is open to all HBO Max subscribers watching on a Chrome web browser, is set to kick off on the Scener website at 4PM PT/7PM ET. Snyder will…

Scener, the co-watching platform that enables social viewing of a range of streaming services, has raised $2.1 million in seed funding. The fundraising was led by Seattle-based SeaChange, a back-end streaming technology provider. Other participants included Glaser Investments, Jason Calacanis' Syndicate, Launch, RiffTr…

Scener, a Seattle-based startup that enables social viewing, has teamed with Comic-Con to become the exclusive co-viewing partner for its upcoming online event. The company will host two tracks of library films and anime during Comic-Con@Home, which runs July 22 to 26, with a capacity of up to 1 million simultaneous…

HBO has set a deal with Scener, a social video startup, that enables remote co-viewing of HBO programming with a live chat feature. The deal covers HBO’s existing streaming platforms, the stand-alone subscription service HBO Now and the authenticated pay-TV app HBO Go. It is not expected to include HBO Max when that…

A new social video startup launches today, offering a new way for viewers to experience videos on Netflix, Hulu and YouTube. Scener’s new platform allows anyone to create, share and watch synchronized commentary about streamed movies and TV shows. These “hosts” appear in the picture-in-picture panel that overlays the…