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?
Social TV Must-Reads (May 9)
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
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
Monday Social TV Sports Report
Lots of sports news from the weekend to catch up on. Read our picks of stories about football, golf, Nascar, boxing, basketball and hockey and be caught up on what is going on in the world of sports and social TV. Read more
Thursday Buzz: May 1 Social TV Numbers
- Jeff Green of the Celtics dunks on Carmelo Anthony of the Knicks, via NESN.com
The trend continues: Sports dominates cable and Social TV buzz. The must-buzzed show on TV last night was TNT’s NBA Playoff coverage of the Boston Celtics holding off first-round elimination with a 92-86 win at the New York Knicks. Read more
Sunday’s Social TV Buzz Numbers
It’s been a tumultuous, injury-plagued year, we appreciate all the true Lakers fans that stood w/ us through it all. twitter.com/Lakers/status/…
— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) April 29, 2013
NBA Playoff basketball broadcasts on ABC and TNT were the No. 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 18)
Facebook is considering video ads on the timeline at $1 million each. Will that crack open TV budgets for social? Check out that story as well as the latest stories about ratings, news about upstart Aereo, Verizon’s quarterly results, Zeebox, the upfronts, content and a look at the Latin market in our daily mid-day roundup of must-read news for social TV professionals. Read more
Tuesday Night’s Top Social TV Programs
As measured by people talking, the season three premiere of MTV’s teen comedy series, “Awkward” was social TV’s top program on Tuesday night with 110,658 “uniques” participating, according to Trendrr and some 226,414 on Twitter, according to SocialGuide this morning. Read more
