iOS App Viggle Will Pay You to Watch TV | Product News. A new app for iOS pays you to watch television. Viggle, released Wednesday on the App Store, is one of the first “loyalty programs,” as the company calls it, for TV. Viggle works by using an iOS device’s microphone to hear what you’re watching, including both live and DVR-recorded shows. It then matches that waveform to a particular channel and show and credits you a certain number of “points” per minute for watching. Once a user has received 7,500 points they can exchange them for $5 gift certificates from retailers like Starbucks, Best Buy, and iTunes. While only watching TV will take quite a while to achieve the 7,500 point threshold — it takes roughly 60 hours of continuous viewership to reach it — there are a multitude of other opportunities in which a user can receive “bonus” points.
As a bonus, once Viggle has determined what show the user is watching, it provides access to Twitter reactions to the show and the opportunity for users to comment directly to Twitter or Facebook. Social TV startup Zeebox scores over $15 million from BSkyB. Videonet - News and Analysis - Orange multi-screen video: quad-play is the prize. About Videonet Videonet is a leading source of strategic insight, analysis and news about post-convergence television.
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Our in-depth industry reports (packaged within e-magazines distributed around key exhibitions), webcasts, webinars, video interviews and blogs provide thought leadership from senior executives across the TV ecosystem. First Football Endzone Hashtag Touches Down in Mississippi. The ol' endzone dance just got even more social. When players in this Saturday's Battle for the Golden Egg — the annual college football clash between Mississippi State and the University of Mississippi — celebrate after scoring a touchdown, they'll be doing so on top of a massive Twitter hashtag. In what's believed to be a first for college football programs, Mississippi State has painted #HAILSTATE — the school's traditional rallying cry and fight song — in its north endzone.
College teams typically decorate endzones with the title of their school, mascot nickname or a colorful pattern. But Mississippi State's Twitter-based variation has already created buzz in the sports world. "It's a phenomenal idea," Dallas Mavericks owner and Broadcast.com founder Mark Cuban said in an email to Mashable. "It's a fun way to involve social media at the game, and to TV viewers it's going to stir up some emotions between both teams. " "It wouldn't surprise me if it does become a trend," Thomas said. Domino's Lets You Make a Pizza On Your iPad and Then Order it in Real Life. [Exclu] MyTF1.fr invente le Tweet Replay. Le concept de Tweet Replay est à la fois simple et lumineux : visionner le replay d’une émission à travers les tweets relatifs à cette émission postés pendant le live.
MyTF1.fr propose ce matin une toute première expérience autour du replay de la finale de « Danse avec les stars » diffusée ce week-end. Tous les tweets publiés pendant l’émission avec le hashtag #DALS sont associés à ce qui se passait à l’antenne à l’instant même de leur publication et permettent ainsi d’avoir accés, en replay quasi instantané, à la séquence commentée. Avec la lancement du Tweet Replay, MyTFI.fr propose donc une nouvelle expérience de Social TV qui s’inscrit dans sa nouvelle stratégie 360 lancée en septembre et dans la perspective évidente de la TV connectée.
Il est question désormais d’enrichir la télévision avant, pendant et après la diffusion à l’antenne. Un nouveau Tweet Replay sera mis en place pour la cérémonie des Miss France le 3 décembre prochain. Publications Sundance Channel Debuts TV Show on Twitter, Hulu... and Then TV. 11/17. When Sundance Channel premieres the first episode of the second season of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys on PerezHilton.com today, it’ll be a full 24 hours before the on-air debut of the show on Nov. 18.
What’s more, the blogger’s unveiling of the show follows a Twitter premiere earlier in the week, as well as a Hulu debut of the episode. The Twitter debut marked one of the first time a network has leveraged the social platform to bow a show, and while the Twitter-cast only generated 2,000 views, it’s a start to using social video to drive early buzz in a TV show. Networks and brands alike are eagerly hunting for ways to pivot off of social chatter and online word-of-mouth, and actual sneak peeks on social venues are a new strategy.
Sundance is also offering the new episode on Facebook this week, potentially reaching the show's 237,000 Facebook fans. While the early Twitter views may be small, the goal is to grow momentum with social video for the on-air premiere. NCIS, Idol Top TVGuide.com's List of the Most Social Shows. Pauley Perrette and Mark Harmon Social network discussions about television shows drove more live viewing and second-screen engagement during the 2010-2011 television season, according to a TVGuide.com user research study that ranks the year's top 10 most social shows. Twenty percent of respondents said they are now watching more live TV to avoid plot and reality "spoilers" that may be revealed in real time by members of their social networks.
At the same time, TVGuide.com, which has more than 23 million monthly unique users, found that users are spending more time engaging in TV discussions with their social networks, with more using Twitter than Facebook for those discussions. The top 10 most social shows of the 2010-2011 season, based on TVGuide.com episode check-ins, Facebook Likes and comments on the site are: 1. In addition, the user survey showed the following: See the full study here: (This survey was conducted in April 2011 on TVGuide.com, with 1,586 respondents. Jersey Shore premiere sets social media record.
Spock Launches Social TV in Canada. Digital TV Group home page. Yahoo et la Social TV. TVcheck: la reconnaissance automatique des programmes au service d'une nouvelle expérience sociale sur iPhone. INfluencia tendance / La TV connectée. En 2025, la digital housewive a déjà depuis une bonne dizaine d’années quasiment définitivement abandonné son cabas au profit d’achats on-line recommandés par sa communauté. Ces amis, elle pourra avoir l’impression de les retrouver dans son salon au travers de moles virtuels rendus plus vrais que nature par une 3D immersive en super HD diffusée par les nanos LED conducteurs recouvrant les murs de son appartement.
Un appartement ressemblant furieusement à celui de la famille dans «Retour vers le Futur 3». Dans ce shopping rendu mondial par la magie d’écrans connectés petits ou gigantesques mais présents partout, les queues aux caisses sont remplacées par du temps en plus pour des loisirs devenus de plus en plus sociaux, «always on» et hypnotiquement immersifs. Dans cette vision extrapolée d’un futur qui fait ses premiers pas sous nos yeux, le concept de «télévision connectée» tel que nous l’envisageons n’est plus une réalité. BeeTV integrates social TV into new apps. Vulkano Flow from Monsoon Multimedia brings TV from home to your smartphone.
These days, digital content is everywhere. You can purchase movies, TV shows and music from a multitude of places but when it comes to getting the content you already own or pay for on your device -- that's where things get a little tricky. Monsoon Multimedia is looking to make all that easier with their Vulkano Flow system. As described in their press release: The Vulkano Flow gives consumers the freedom to watch their TV anywhere in the world using smartphones, tablets and computers. Vulkano users can now instantly begin recording their favorite television programming so they never miss historic news or memorable sporting moments. The system itself is comprised of two components. The base station, back at your house and the application available for Android in order to control things from afar. Source: MyVulkano Monsoon Announces Direct Recording of TV Content on iPad, iPhone and Android Phones and Tablets.
YouTube Takes Pitches for 20 Web TV Channels. Top TV Social Media Accounts. Spock Launches Social TV in Canada - Web Connected TV | Web Connected TV. Pepsi Gamifies “The X-Factor” Pepsi has teamed up with The X-Factor, Simon Cowell’s new foray into TV singing competitions, to create Pepsi Pulse and Pepsi Sound Off, two gamified social media platforms that allow viewers to compete and communicate while watching the show. There has been some side conversations of the gamification of social TV, but this is the first time that social TV has made a splash.
Although getting their start with X-Factor, according to AdAge the Pepsi platforms may be used during other televised events such as the SuperBowl to engage viewers while advertising the brand. Pepsi Pulse, more akin to an infographic than a gamified community, draws from tweets to visualize the buzz around the X Factor and keep viewers up to date on hot topics. The screen presents a constellation of chat bubbles or hearts, and provide the text of the tweet when moused over. Pepsi Sound Off is where the game mechanics come into play. Save $150 on your ticket by using code GBLOG14 at checkout! Which TV Show Do You Think Is The Most Social? This week SocialGuide, the first real-time social TV guide, launched The Social 100, a ranking of the most social TV programs and networks. The Social 100 ranks the most social programming on a daily, weekly and monthly basis based upon social media activity. With the launch, SocialGuide released a ranking of the most social television shows and networks in July 2011.
Read on to find out who topped the list. The July 2011 report shows that FOX ranked as the most social TV network, with viewers engaging on social media around FOX programming more than any other network’s programming. Basketball Wives clocked in at the most social program in primetime but Family Guy takes the cake for the most social program of all, followed by SpongeBob SquarePants. Basketball Wives clocked in at number three overall.
Sean Casey, the founder and CEO of SocialGuide, says, “Understanding the social footprint of a program is becoming increasingly important to networks and agencies. Best Buy tests the connected TV market — Online Video News.