What Was the Social TV Daily Community Reading this Week?

The most-read linked story on Social TV Daily for the week was our first Storify roundup, “Recapping #NATPE as Shared on Twitter,” our curation of the Twitter sharing from the 50th annual conference of the National Association of Television Program Executives from Miami.

The convention started with Mark Cuban assuring the industry that TV is, and will continue to be, a powerful media force, but that social media is a powerful addition.

Click the link to read the article.

We found the event a great resource for our coverage of the latam market and enjoyed the pictures conference-goers shared with Don Francisco of Sabado Gigante fame as well as the many tweets in Spanish and from after-hours fun.

• Readers’ second most-popular article this week was Deadline.com’s coverage of Cuban’s NATPE keynote:

“The Internet is designed for everything but video. Television is designed for video,” Cuban said, according to Deadline.  “Television, because it has zero latency, has become the starting point for conversations,” Cuban said.

• Readers No. 3 most-popular choice this week was by Canada’s Maclean’s on Netflix decision to not share viewership numbers from its innovative “House of Cards production,” and how TV’s relationship with ratings is changing:

“. . . the shows that survive aren’t necessarily the ones that get the most viewers. They’re the ones that get people talking—even if, in this case, it’s only talking about the network’s refusal to release ratings.–

Read the article, The television model these days is all about buzz

Our top post for the week was Tuesday’s Social TV Must-Reads, which included links to both the Mark Cuban article and the Maclean’s article.

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