Facebook has immense reach and unprecedented targeting capability, but it’s been only mildly successful with online (and now mobile) advertising. But what if those strengths were applied to video? We may soon find out, as Ad Age is reporting that Facebook is planning to launch short video ads by April of next year on both desktop and mobile devices.
Sidecastr has continued to grow in popularity by focusing heavily on curation for the second screen (available to download for iPad here). The Boston-based startup recently launched the ability to synch conversations with Facebook friends, even if you’re not watching shows at the same time. Here are the details. Read more
Pretty Little Liars continues to set precedents for how a show can live beyond it’s traditional season cycle. They launched a web series at the end of their summer season and recently unleashed a Halloween special on ABC Family to keep fans glued to the teen drama. We interviewed Beth Johnson, VP of Digital Media for ABC Family and Dalia Ganz, Senior Manager of Digital and Partnership Marketing for ABC Family about their social TV strategy. Read more
Trendrr has made a big announcement today, one that is sure to help their services grow in the long term. The social TV analytics company has announced that “the United States Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company U.S. Patent No. 8,271,429, which protects the data collection and web-based display methods.” Their release goes onto explain that “the patent, entitled ‘System and method for collecting and processing data,’ protects Trendrr’s intuitive, turnkey enterprise technology solution, which solves the problem of processing, understanding and leveraging social data around television.” We spoke with CEO Mark Ghuneim about what this means for his company and about the unique ways they tracked the debates by looking at attribution by network. Read more
The Weather Channel is no stranger to social TV. Early on the weather-focused TV network inked an unprecedented partnership with Twitter to curate relevant tweets. They also have one of the most popular apps on the App Store and recently revamped their website to bring social even more center stage. As their digital footprint has grown, their original television content has as well. Tonight at 9pm Eastern the network is premiering “Coast Guard Florida,” a follow up to the successful “Coast Guard Alaska”. Florida will “will follow the men and women of the 7th Coast Guard District who are charged with keeping America’s ports secure and waterways safe, stemming the flow of illegal narcotics, securing the southeast border, protecting the environment, enforcing maritime laws and treaties and saving those in peril on the sea.” We spoke with Renee Willet, senior manager of social media marketing for The Weather Channel Companies about their social TV strategy for the big premiere. Read more
NBC News' Dateline continues to find creative ways to use social TV to build their audience. This summer we broke the news about Dateline Chatline, the show's new social platform for connective viewers with tweets, anchors and more. Tonight, in honor of the premiere of their 21st season, they're sending Josh Mankiewicz, who's been with a correspondent on the show since 1995 to a viewer's home to watch the show with him. We interviewed Mankiewicz about how they used social to pick the lucky winner.
They say each generation is more digitally savvy than the next. As younger generations begin to produce TV for major networks, the social platforms they grew up with are beginning to become the focus of how they create content. ESPN has just launched its first major late night show on ESPNU called UNITE.
CNN and Facebook's partnership for the election continues to unveil new products. The news giant and the publicly-traded social platform have just unveiled "Election Insights", a real-time visualization that illustrates which candidates are being discussed the most on Facebook. We spoke with Mass Relevance (the social TV company powering the visualization) CEO Sam Decker...
TV networks can no longer simply promote a big premiere date and hope that enough viewers tune in to help the show live to see another day. Before the summer even ends, Fox is the latest network to launch a big social push to get viewers excited about their fall TV programming. Sunday and Monday, in partnership with Entertainment Weekly, the network is launching 10 screenings of its new comedies "Ben and Kate" and...
In July CNN and Facebook announced a major partnership around the election. "America's Choice 2012" is an analysis of Facebook's more than 160 million users in the U.S. and CNN's multi-platform audience. Their first big report is out and we spoke to Michelle Jaconi, CNN's Executive Producer of Cross-Platform programming about the results.
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