Friday’s Social TV Must-Reads (May 10)
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?
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Ellen Show Makes Moves in Social TV Buzz with Viggle Deal
Ellen loves #Scandal, just not the breaks…we feel you Gladiator Ellen! @theellenshow#whoisthemole youtube.com/embed/z5XtctDa…
— Adam Shapiro (@adamshapiro) May 7, 2013
Top Ellen-related tweet (77 retweets), from Adam Shapiro
“The Ellen Degeneres Show” on NBC got people talking yesterday with a show that featured Lady Antebellum and Lauren Graham. Read more
Critics Picks for Tonight’s TV (May 2)
Two of the three newspaper TV critics we follow daily agree that we should watch ‘Big Bang’ on CBS tonight as comedy legend Bob Newhart makes a guest appearance at 8.
Social Profile: Big Bang Theory on CBS
- Website: http://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheBigBangTheory (25 million “likes”)
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/bigbang_cbs (1,432,191 followers)
- Nielsen Ratings (7.1 rating, 11,431M viewers) http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/top10s.html
Critics’ picks for other shows to watch tonight include: ‘Office’ on NBC at 8:30, ‘Glee’ on Fox at 9, and the season finale of ‘Parks and Recreation’ at 9 on NBC. Read more
Sweeps Thursday Social TV Must-Reads (April 25)
Let Sweeps Season begin! Season finales, cliff hangers and cancellations as well as moves for next season all coming into view. Check out our daily roundup of Social TV must-reads. Read more
Word Cloud for Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Sunny Wednesday Social TV Must-Reads (April 24)
On a bright and sunny day in New York City, with a bunch of our friends at a Social TV conference on the Manhattan waterfront, we are doing the heavy lifting with today’s midday roundup of fresh news articles. Read more
Thursday’s Social TV Must-Reads (April 11)
The reverb from Fox’s threat to leave the broadcast airwaves continues and inspires the FT to report on the changing television business, making for the top story on our mid-day must-read news stories from around the web.
Screen grab of the official NCAA March Madness website taken Tuesday, April 9, 2013.
By the Numbers, Social TV Last Night
March Madness reached a social TV crescendo last night as Louisville captured the NCAA men’s basketball national championship over Michigan, 82-76.
The NCAA multiplatform coverage http://www.ncaa.com/march-madness-live/ reported some 1,680,850 related tweets, peaking at 57,567 per minute toward the end of the game. Read more
Beautiful Game: Wednesday’s Social TV Must-Reads (March 27)
Who says the U.S. doesn’t appreciate soccer? Last night, soccer dominated social mentions for both broadcast and cable, knocking NBC’s The Voice down to a third-place showing. We take a look at the numbers.
The ratings success of the NCAA basketball tournament — March Madness — is translating into digital success and not cannibalizing in-person attendance, we learn today. Read more
Comebacks and Tuesday’s Social TV Must-Reads (March 26)
Last night’s premiere of The Voice dominated social TV talk for the night, good news for the first time in a few weeks for NBC.
We’ll wait for the ratings, but the social TV mentions were impressive. Read more
Friday Social TV Must-Reads (Feb. 22)
For those who have declared Twitter the winner of the Social TV battle, the aftermath of Facebook pulling the plug on the Peacock network should be instructive. Yesterday, multiple reports said that NBC’s website had been hacked to spread a computer virus and that Facebook pulled access, not allowing users to share links to the network. Read more
