Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards were the biggest Social TV event since the Grammy Awards back in January and spiked in the ratings as the top story in our mid-day roundup of Social TV must-reads.
Check out stories on Monday’s ratings, Oklahoma tornado coverage, Best Buy earnings, branded content, YouTube, Samsung, Dish, Tivo, Soccer ad earnings, Tumblr, IMDB, and a new NBC News president? Read more
Shaquille O’Neal is one of two finalists for entertainer of the year in the Sports Social TV Awards that will be presented on May 29 in Los Angeles. The Smart Planet website today takes a look at O’Neal and how he uses social media as our top story in our mid-day roundup of must-read Social TV articles. Read more
Three things you should read this morning — “The Office,” TiVo and real-time, and TV app startup, SimulTV. Read more
In video clip, above, Univision CEO Randy Falco has a little fun with competitors.
The Upfronts season has captivated New York and taken over all the best venues for presentation, and releases and CEOs having fun, like the video above with Randy Falco. Read more
TV manufacturers are collaborating on Automatic Content Recognition technology. How soon could that result in smarter sets and could it sideline the growing second-screen industry?
VIDEO ROUND TABLE: Social TV, Where’s the Money? With Turner Sports, Socialite, and the Padem Group on a panel at the recent Streaming Media West conference.
‘American Idol’ won the social-tv buzz and the ratings battle with ‘The Voice’ last night and leads our mid-day roundup of must-read stories for the Social TV industry. Read more
YouTube is rumored to be ready to launch pay channels, Samsung acquires a second-screen startup, Aereo is suing CBS, and Facebook may start running ads against video are our picks as must-read stories for Social TV professionals in our daily mid-day roundup. Read more
While the season finale of ‘The Amazing Race’ and ‘The Mentalist’ hardly dented the Social TV charts last night, they did impact the Sunday evening ratings.
CBS held the night sparked by 10.5 million viewers for ’60 Minutes.’
Sports were the focus of the weekend on the first screen and the second screen. Read more
