GetGlue: Check-in to tv, movies and music Social Network for Entertainment Discover what to watch, share what you're watching with friends and fans, and get updates from your favorite shows. Evomote Hopes to Improve TV Content Discoverability Evomote is a Spanish startup that hopes to transform your smartphone into a personalized TV guide, and its pitch during the Wayra Madrid Demo Day earlier this week was very well received. This was a good example of how much startups can change during an acceleration program – for the better. When we first listened to Evomote’s pitch last February, the company’s main focus was to develop a new control system for televisions. While it hasn’t entirely disappeared from its product, it is now focusing much more heavily on content discoverability. According to its CEO, Alberto Soria López, what happened is that its team realized that it could add much more value as a recommendation engine than as a pure TV remote. At the same time, smartphones are gaining ground all over the world, and we are increasingly using them while watching TV, Evomote’s mentor Alberto Benbunan pointed out the team to Wayra’s Demo Day’s investor-sprinkled audience, ➤ Evomote Image Credit / Nicolas Nova
Loyalize Tweek Launches its Social TV Discovery iPad App The Next Web is out and about at London Web Summit today, where we’ve already looked at the future of mobile, social and local business, whilst Uber has announced it will be launching in London in time for the Olympics and Jolicloud rolled out a new beta service to help people make sense of their personal cloud. We also managed to catch up with a berlin-based startup called Tweek, that has just launched a neat new social TV recommendation app for the UK and German markets. The iPad-only app is essentially a ‘layer’ that pulls together live and video-on-demand (Vod) film and TV content, recommended by a user’s social networks. Now by social networks, I of course mean Facebook, which is required to connect with the app when you first sign-up. It’s important to note that Tweek doesn’t host content, but rather connects up with third parties such as YouTube, Netflix and iTunes. ➤ Tweek
Investors Give Social TV a Thumbs Up Social TV is undoubtedly a hot topic in the media world, with every TV executive becoming more and more enamored with the thought of any potential ratings boost from viewers who tweet, Facebook chat, dutifully watch with their iPads on their laps or simply text about their favorite shows. But making sense of all that social TV activity is a tricky challenge — and whichever company can lay claim to owning social TV data should emerge a powerful player in the new TV world. Cue the venture capital money train. Bluefin, which was born out of MIT Media Labs, publishes a daily top ten list of the most socially engaged shows on TV from the previous night. But Bluefin’s core business appears geared around helping networks, advertisers and agencies use social TV analytics strategically. Bluefin’s clients include CBS, Discovery Communications, Fox, Starcom MediaVest Group, MediaCom and MTV Networks.
The Challenge for Apps on TV: Turning "Me" into "We" There’s a big difference between a smartphone and a TV. As developers increasingly look to the opportunities of TV, they will have to shift their focus from thinking about a personal experience to a communal one – and I can’t wait to see what they come up with. The transition to a more ‘app-centric’ approach to TV seems inevitable - Google is courting TV-focused developers, Apple is said to be launching a TV SDK at WWDC next week, Opera and Samsung have TV app stores, and there are bound to be many more opportunities to get apps onto our TVs in the future. While startups well versed in desktop, mobile or Web app development may be tempted to make that leap to the largest screen in the house, developing for TV presents unique challenges that will require some serious thought. Unlike your smartphone, tablet or laptop, a TV is first and foremost a communal device. We like to huddle around it in groups of family or friends after a hard day’s work. Can we make the personal communal?
yap.TV Twitter UK boss says social TV happens whether broadcasters like it or not | Technology Twitter's UK general manager Tony Wang expects broadcasters to start using the microblogging service in more "artful" ways beyond showing hashtags and account handles on-air. "Broadcasters are not the ones to choose whether to have social TV. It happens whether they like it or not. Wang cited stats showing that 80% of under-25s are using a second screen to communicate with friends while watching TV, while 72% of them are using Twitter, Facebook and other mobile apps to comment on the shows they watch. He added that Twitter sees three distinct strategies from broadcasters when it comes to social TV: some are doing nothing, others are doing something, and a few are doing "artful" things on-air. Wang outlined three common tactics in the "do something" category: on-air hashtags, Twitter handles and live-tweets from stars. Meanwhile, CBS saw the number of daily tweets about its Survivor show quadruple in 2011 after presenter Jeff Probst began tweeting while it was on-air.
Twitter UK boss says social TV happens whether broadcasters like it or not | Technology Twitter's UK general manager Tony Wang, speaking at MIPCube. Photo: Stuart Dredge Twitter's UK general manager Tony Wang expects broadcasters to start using the microblogging service in more "artful" ways beyond showing hashtags and account handles on-air. "Broadcasters are not the ones to choose whether to have social TV. It happens whether they like it or not. Wang cited stats showing that 80% of under-25s are using a second screen to communicate with friends while watching TV, while 72% of them are using Twitter, Facebook and other mobile apps to comment on the shows they watch. He added that Twitter sees three distinct strategies from broadcasters when it comes to social TV: some are doing nothing, others are doing something, and a few are doing "artful" things on-air. Wang outlined three common tactics in the "do something" category: on-air hashtags, Twitter handles and live-tweets from stars.
Social TV App for Japan Mobile by Wireless Watch Japan Groovy Jpn Social TV free app, see @tune_TV and think GetGlue, recently launched on iOS and ‘droid: Look-out Nielson Ratings.. The Future Of Social TV Is Now.. and will be everywhere! Machine Translation: Jeneshikku Co., Ltd. develop apps for smartphones is a key corresponding to the 7-channel stations metropolitan area Social TV app for iPhone / Android “tuneTV” utilizing a social media analysis tool “Insight Intelligence” section Data Corporation to expand service offerings, in collaboration with 2011 was broadcast on 31 December “62nd NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen” We conducted a study on the rate of topics on Twitter. Social TV applications – “@tuneTV” – is the climax of each show on Twitter and timelines for each station, in 1 minute real-time graphs topic ratio based on tweet content and frequency for each program pseudo-subject factor was calculated on twitter. Price: Free App Store: Related posts:
Social TV Relying on relationships to rebuild TV audiences. Marie-José Montpetit (MIT) Social TV could improve the viewing experience and provide new business opportunities for carriers OTHERS WORKING ON SOCIAL TV BT, London, England ClipSync, San Francisco, CA Intel, Santa Clara, CA Motorola, Schaumburg, IL This article is part of an annual list of what we believe are the 10 most important emerging technologies. The viewership for live television broadcasts has generally been declining for years. Marie-José Montpetit, an invited scientist at MIT's Research Lab for Electronics, has been working for several years on social TV--a way to seamlessly combine the social networks that are boosting TV ratings with the more passive experience of traditional TV viewing. Carriers, networks, and content producers hope that making it easier for viewers to link up with friends will help them hold on to their audiences rather than losing them to services like Hulu, which stream shows over the Internet.
Flingo History and Features[edit] In September 2013, the company adopted the Samba TV name to reflect the company's focus on interactive television and market traction with signed contracts with leading players throughout the ecosystem including TV and set-top box manufacturers, advertisers, content publishers and broadcasters. In the company’s own words, the core services of Samba TV include:[6] An all-access pass to behind-the-scenes content from viewers’ favorite TV shows and actors. By connecting phones or tablets to the TV, viewers gain access to exclusive content and special offers. Ownership[edit] In February 2012, Flingo announced a $7 million Series A round investment from August Capital.[9] In May 2012, Flingo added additional investors, closing at $8 million, including entrepreneur Mark Cuban and Gary Lauder. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
A Social-Media Decoder Power shift: Deb Roy, CEO of Bluefin Labs, says social media have changed the relationship between media consumers and producers. From his 24th-floor corner office in midtown Manhattan, the veteran CBS research chief David Poltrack can gaze southward down the Avenue of the Americas, its sidewalks teeming. For more than four decades, it has been his job to measure people’s television habits, preferences, and reactions. But now he’s also dealing with a growing force: the masses talking back through social media. How to make sense of it all? Overall, the data was raw and, in many cases, ambiguous. Six hundred miles to the west, a similar assessment was under way at the Cincinnati headquarters of Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest advertiser (its brands include Tide, Gillette, Bounty, Pringles, and Duracell). Craig Wynett, the company’s chief learning officer, says Bluefin Labs is teasing out nuances in the way context affects the extent to which an ad generates buzz.