Not too shabby CTV. There are so many people tweeting your hashtag, you can’t even read their names.
via How Canadians are using Twitter to discuss the 2012 Olympics | Jon Litwack. Read more
Television’s Growing Pains in the New Millennium – Viewer’s Have New Expectations | Social TV Apps – The Future of Multiplatform Television, Transmedia, Social TV, Smart TV and Connected TV. Read more
The tension were seeing in the London Games — the NBC backlash, the cord-cutters anger — may seem like a matter of television versus the Internet, of established medium versus upstart. But its also a tension of time: a matter of the new alchemy between the immediate and the evergreen.
Just hours into the Olympic Games and Twitter is abuzz with comments on NBC’s Olympic broadcast. While there is no definitive way for us to conclusively measure Twitter sentiment negativity, suffice it to say that there are enough critical comments that NBC has been trending on Twitter all day Saturday and into the evening. Read more
Following are the winners of the first Social TV Awards, presented Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at the Bel Air Country Club in Los Angeles:
#1: Best Cable Network, USA Network → Jesse Redniss
#2: Best On Line Video, Team Coco
#3: Best Research Social TV, Bluefin Labs → Jack Flannigan
#4: Best Check-in & Loyalty, GetGlue→ Alex Iskold
#5: Best Social TV Companion, TV Plus → Matt Duffy
#6: Best TV Show Specific, X Factor → Bill Bradford
#7: Best Branded Social TV Award, Red Bull Shazam → David Jones
#8: Best Drama, Heartland Ranch, Canadian Broadcast → Fergus Haywood
#9: Best Social Commerce, Fashion Star, Electus → Mike Heity & Ben Silverman
#10: Best Special Entertainment, Grammy’s Live, CBS Interactive → Marc Deboise
#11: Best Connected TV Social TV Award, Police Ball → Matt Duffy (TV Plus)
#12: Best White Label, tie:
Mass Relevance → Josh Rickel
Echo → Kristen Hersant, Chris Saad
#13: Best Ubiquitous, ConnecTV → Ian Aaron
#14: Integration of Facebook, The Voice NBC → Peter Naylor
#15: Integration of Twitter, X Factor → Bill Bradford
#16: Best Mobile Phone Ipad, Walking Dead → Sarah Garragher
#17: Best Sports TV Award, Detroit Labs → Andy McKeever
#18: Best Broadcast, NBC, NBC Live → ROBERT ANGELO
#19: Best TV Entertainer of the Year, Andy Cohen → Andy Cohen – Video
#20: Best TV Marketer of the Year, Jesse Redniss → Jesse Redniss
#21: Best of Show, X Factor → Bill Bradford. Read more
The first Social TV Awards gala will be celebrated tonight, Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at the Bel Air Country Club in Los Angeles. The awards will forever be called, the STEVEES.
A panel of 15 industry leaders served as judges from the hundreds of entries into this first celebration of the innovation and excitement of the emerging and dynamic social TV industry, which is less than two years old. Read more
There was a time when homes throughout the world, even in some of the poorest areas, sprouted an antenna from the top of the roof to receive broadcast television signals.
Today, it’s rare to see a TV antenna as we enter the digital age, but Social TV Daily found one in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Monday as we arrived in town for Tuesday night’s Social TV Awards gala and Wednesday’s Social TV Summit. Read more
