Second-screen app maker Viggle says it has crossed the three million registered user mark, following a May which saw the addition of more than 400,000 users. All told, Viggle now has over 800,000 active users per month. Viggle has benefited from deep partnerships with companies like NBCUniversal, the NBA and the Ellen Degeneres Show.

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Broadcast Asia is underway at Singapore’s beautiful Marina Bay Sands and Lost Remote is excited to expand its coverage to the region. “As Asia’s largest representative, integrated show for the pro-audio, film and TV industries, BroadcastAsia serves as the regional launch pad for the latest and most wide-ranging technologies by some of the biggest and most promising enterprises from around the world,” describes the conference on their website. Here’s how you can follow social TV at the show. Read more

The social TV world is now expanding around the world. Lost Remote is headed to Broadcast Asia taking place in Singapore next week, but before a look at that region here’s an inside look at a social TV startup based in Sweden. Like.TV is a second screen platform currently gaining traction in Sweden and Norway. We interviewed Jacob Leander-Olsson a product manager at  MTG Digital Media, the digital arm of the MTG broadcast and entertainment company who runs Like.TV about social TV in the region. Read more

In recent days media has been consumed by one Edward Snowden who revealed a Skynet-type infrastructure called Prism that the government is running. At the same time it appears as if traditional cable TV business is gearing up for a Game of Thrones-style war with many “kingdoms” that include Intel, Aereo, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, YouTube and more. Are the cable TV walls about to crumble? Read more

Twitter’s success with TV is waking up a social giant. As rumored months ago, Facebook announced it’s beginning to roll out hashtags to make it easier for users to discover shared interests. The company says it’s just the beginning of a larger effort to attract more credit for driving conversations around TV.

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The 67th Annual Tony Awards are underway with veteran host Neil Patrick Harris. Social is of course a quintessential part of the television awards show experience. Only a few years ago was social first being implemented into the production and marketing. Tonight’s Tonys are no exception. Here’s how CBS is using social for tonight’s big event that is currently underway. Read more

Comedy Central just launched their impressive new app, “CC: Stand Up” which “is a stand-alone extension of Comedy Central that brings comedy fans a completely new stand-up channel, a tool to discover new comics and a platform for sharing comedic content.” In April, The New York Times described the app as “a free, ad-supported app…designed to look and feel like a cable channel devoted to stand-up, the app will offer videos of comedians performing routines.” Here are the details. Read more

HBO is planning a 15-minute live pre-show in advance of the season six premiere of “True Blood,” fueled by social media. The 15-minute program “#TrueBlood: Live from Set” will feature the cast answering questions from fans. It will also feature some of the show’s top fans through a partnership with Twitter and Mass Relevance. In a statement, HBO credits the show’s social fanbase as a key component to its success:

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NBC News Digital has signed up oil company Shell as the sponsor of its “Meet the Press” experience on the Zeebox second screen app. Zeebox, which launched in the U.S. late last year, will also use feature its new “SpotSynch” ad technology with the partnership. The tech will feature an interactive Shell add in the app, as a Shell ad appears on “Meet the Press.”

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Fueled by amazing caught-on-camera news clips, Russia Today’s YouTube channel has hit one billion lifetime views — the first TV brand on YouTube to reach the milestone. RT is rather excited about it, first producing a thank you video (below), then an entire TV show, “Billion Bulletin,” about the accomplishment.

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