Thursday Reads at Noon
Every day, we pour through pages and pages of search, looking for news that will help social TV professionals. Rather than just share a few, we put together a roundup of fresh news you may have missed. Read more
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Today’s Noon Reads
We comb the web every day, looking for great articles for the Social TV community. Click the link and see what we are sharing today! Let us know what you think on Twitter @socialtvdaily Read more
Tracking the Tweets: #Digiday Video Conference
Social TV Daily combed Twitter to check out the conversation around the Digiday Video conference on the future of online video Tuesday in New York. Click the link to view our Storify. Read more
Our Tuesday Afternoon Readings in Social, TV
We scroll through a lot of links and share the best with you, right here, every day around noon. Take a quick read and tell us what you think on Twitter, where we are @socialtvdaily: Read more
YouTube Still Hasn’t Replaced Television. And Here’s Why It Won’t
Views aside, the pop-culture cache of all 100 YouTube channels combined scarcely adds up to a single episode of “Homeland” or one Monday Night Football game.
Now Google is cutting off funding to more than half of those channels as it steps up its efforts to transform YouTube from a low-rent home for cute cat videos into a Hollywood power player for the attention-deficit set. Read more
#pivotcon and the screen (with images, tweets) · krochmal · Storify
Following is a curation of shared tweets during two segments of the PivotCon conference Monday and Tuesday in New York City. The conference brought together social -media professionals and had a wide-ranging agenda. Here we curate tweets about social TV and digital entertainment content production. Read more
Top Youtubers Make $276,000 a Year
Youtube is a valuable platform for many brands, but the real kings of the video social network are independent video producers, often called Youtubers.
OpenSlate, a video advertising vendor, shared some valuable data on their research of the top 1,000 Youtube channels. Read more
Felix Baumgartner Jump Shows YouTube’s Live Video Strength – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD
On the other hand, as YouTube proved conclusively yesterday, it can now mount this stuff without breaking a sweat. Now it’s basically a plug-and-play option for any grown-up company that wants to do business with Google. Read more
BBC News – Skydiver Baumgartner sets YouTube live view record
More than eight million people flocked to their devices to watch the 43-year-old break the speed of sound live on Google’s YouTube site.
It is the largest number of concurrent live streams in the website’s history, Google UK confirmed to the BBC. Read more
The YouTube show | Features | C21Media
While the digital space has had a growing presence at Mipcom in recent years, this year YouTube’s European channels launch was the talk of market, and made it abundantly clear – in case anyone needed reminding – that the TV industry is changing, and fast. Read more
