It's been a devastating few days in Colorado Springs as the Waldo Canyon Fire tore through neighborhoods, devouring hundreds of homes along the way. I was watching the live stream from KKTV when the fire first began to descend from the mountainside, and the station highlighted the #WaldoCanyonFire hashtag immediately underneath its live bug:
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Companies Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Gaming Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now How the TV screen became the second screen for MTV's OMAs Anger Management’ breaks ratings but not social records Posted by Cory Bergman on June 29, 2012 Mr . Winning himself premiered his new show , Anger Management on FX last night , and the ratings were more impressive than social conversation around it . With around 5.7 million viewers , the show not only broke FX’s all-time ratings record , but it became the most-watched scripted primetime comedy series premiere in cable history . Prior to the premiere , most critics didn’t have good things to say about the show , but that didn’t stop viewers from tuning in the second half-hour even outpaced the . first Of
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Companies Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Gaming Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now How the TV screen became the second screen for MTV's OMAs CNN gathers top 50 iReporters for second annual awards Posted by Natan Edelsburg on June 29, 2012 It’s definitely not easy to sustain a social platform tied specifically to a TV network , when Twitter , Facebook , Tumblr , YouTube , Instagram and others are major sources of real-time content . CNN’s iReport is now over five years old and continues to grow strong as a major outlet for the global news network to curate content from their most passionate viewers . Seven months after they launched a more social iReport they gathered their top fifty users to chat best practices and honor the best at the 2nd Annual
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Companies Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Gaming Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now How the TV screen became the second screen for MTV's OMAs How NBC Sports is preparing for the most social Olympics ever Posted by Natan Edelsburg on June 27, 2012 We’re officially thirty days away from the highly anticipated London Summer Olympics . News is starting to pour out in the social TV world , and official broadcaster NBC has some exciting projects in the works . As usual , we wanted you to have access to an inside look , so we spoke to Rick Cordella SVP GM for NBC Sports Digital , Ruthie Wittenberg Senior Director , Corporate Olympic Marketing at NBC Universal and Lyndsay Iorio Manager , Social Media at NBC Sports Group about the larger than life sports .
Google came out swinging at today's developers conference, unveiling a long list of new products to counter Apple and Microsoft's push into a tablet-friendly living room. To start things off, Google introduced the Nexus 7, a 7" tablet running Android 4.1 that will retail for $199 -- clearly competing with the Kindle Fire. To accompany the announcement, Google said it's bringing TV, movies, and magazine purchases to Google Play...
THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Companies Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Gaming Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now How the TV screen became the second screen for MTV's OMAs How the TV screen became the second screen for MTV’s OMAs Posted by Natan Edelsburg on June 26, 2012 When MTV announced the third iteration of their audacious O Music Awards which gets underway tomorrow night they promised they would break the world record for most concerts in 24 hours , traveling across 8 cities in a wired-up bus while giving away an award every hour . When the Flaming Lips were announced as the band that would break the record , we knew we had to be . there In addition to categories like Must Follow Artist on Twitter the OMAs are uniquely a major tent-pole from a TV network where the second
Shazam has landed a big partnership to enable TV viewers in the US to interact with one of television's biggest events: the London Olympics, spanning NBC, NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, Bravo and CNBC. Viewers who tag the broadcast from their Shazam app will be able to see additional information on the athletes, engage in polls, view the competition schedule, check the latest results, keep tabs on the medal count and share on social media.
HBO's highly anticipated Aaron Sorkin drama premiered yesterday on HBO. "The Newsroom," which stars Jeff Daniels as anchor Will McAvoy, has been described as The West Wing on deadline. The hour-long drama (the premiere episode was 75 minutes) feels more like Sorkin's short-lived and beloved Sports Night updated for the digitally-enhanced linear TV age. Networked Insights provided us details on how the show fared...
: THE HOME OF SOCIAL TV Home Charts Companies Leaderboard Second Screen Apps Gaming Research TV Jobs Events About Popular : now How the TV screen became the second screen for MTV's OMAs Exclusive : The most adored TV showrunners infographic Posted by Natan Edelsburg on June 25, 2012 Networked Insights NI continues to put together interesting data that highlights different spectrums of the TV ecosystem on the social web . We reported on their upfront predictions for NBC ABC Fox and which TV stars from new programming had the most buzz Now the NYC-based company has provided Lost Remote exclusively with an inside look at the most popular TV showrunners on the social . web NI was recently included in Forrester Wave report , a quarterly look at the most important analytics tools , for its focus
The CW's audience was born into the social web. This fact has forced the network to quickly adapt to the Gossip Girl and Vampire Diary-loving fans that are loud, passionate and screen-agnostic when it comes to programming. We spoke to Rick Haskins, The CW's Executive Vice President of Marketing and Digital Programs about their social TV strategy.