Samsung captivated New York CIty yesterday with a presser and launch party for the rollout of its Smart TVs #SamsungSmartTV. Held at the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street, the evening event featured a step-and-repeat with photogs, and demonstrations of the product with open bar and edibles. Read more
A&E’s ‘Duck Dynasty’ continues to amaze and ignite social conversations with over 300,000 mentions around last night’s show, edging ‘American Idol,’ with slightly under 290,000 mentions.
Tonight, Idol and Glee go back-to-back on Fox. Will that dominate the social conversation? Read more
Last week started with the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, going up against Downton Abbey on PBS. During the week, we launched our exclusive coverage of the Social TV Thought Leadership Roadshow in New York as Viacom and Zeebox announced a deal and Viggle announced earnings. Read more
CBS rules the ratings, but how is it doing financially? How about Discovery, with all its acquisitions? Read our daily must-reads and find out.
But there is just so much more. What? Yes, indeed. Daily we scour the Internet for the most recent news for social TV professionals and compile it into our noon report and share it with you. Read more
The three-day Social TV Thought Leadership Roadshow wraps up in New York City on Thursday afternoon but coverage and community will continue on our website and social media channels. Let us know that you’ve been following our coverage, including today’s stops at New York agencies Dentsu and 360i as well as Moxie in the afternoon. Read more
The news that Nielsen is acquiring Social Guide flashed through Twitter and the #socialTV community on Monday as the deal was announced with an early-morning press release.
Brooklyn-based Social Guide, launched in 2011, is merging into New York-based NM Incite, the two-year-old Nielsen and McKinsey & Co. Read more
Chuck Parker blogs and graphs the second screen hype cycle.
Thoughts on the Digital Video Space: The Second Screen Hype Cycle. Read more
Chart of Adult Use of TV Online
Among online US adults, about two in five (43%) say they have gone online or utilized social media to comment, post, watch or read something about a television show or program, according to a recent24/7 Wall St./Harris Poll on Social Media and Television. Read more
Kevin Frazier of The Insider, via Social TV Daily on YouTube Read more
