This week at NAB, Vidpresso is showcasing some new features of its social TV curation tool, which is used by several TV stations and production teams ranging from KSL TV to Anderson Cooper. The tool already makes it easy to display Facebook and Twitter updates on the air, but it can now display photos from Twitter and Instagram as well. Read more
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Over a decade ago, Lost Remote was the first blog to cover the National Association of Broadcasters convention -- a huge showcase of television technology in Las Vegas -- about how the internet was changing the business. This year, I returned to NAB to see how social TV is impacting production, from tech to workflow. Like the late 90s with the internet, it's still early, but social TV is beginning to make inroads. "There are so many technology providers here, and the interest in social TV is disproportionate to the innovation," said Sam Decker, CEO of Mass Relevance....
Every so often, there's something at my "real job" at BreakingNews that I can't resist sharing. Today, our team launched a Samsung TV app that brings breaking news alerts to your TV, over any live channel you're watching. When a story breaks, a ticker appears, scrolls the alert and disappears a few seconds later. The Breaking News app also features a consistent ticker of the moment's biggest stories, and you can set...
This year's NAB has become the platform for innovation for social TV analytics. "The WASP Europe" a London-based company, that also owns and manages Belgium-based "The Application Store," has just launched StatsForce.TV. CTO and Owner Serge Billiouw described the new product to Lost Remote as, "Bluefin Labs for Europe." He added that there product is a "social TV analysis, but for every TV Channel in Europe, taking into account the local language, culture, TV Channels, networks." We spoke with Billiouw and CEO Vincent Parisis about their company's growth and the state of social TV in Europe and the unique perspective their company has.
Social TV analytics keep getting smarter and smarter. Bluefin Labs CEO Deb Roy recently told the audience at the NBCU Social TV Symposium that "as soon as you have one advertiser that cares about a like or tweet, you are setting currency exchanges," and that, "we'll see standards being set." His company has just made a big announcement to offer brands a chance to start pushing these standards with their new "Bluefin Signals Brand Edition." It launches with several initial clients including PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Mars, Humana and Quicken Loans...
KIT Digital, a publicly-traded company that provides video management software and services, is launching a new Social Program Guide at NAB today with the hopes of attracting cable providers to update their outdated software. "This is a white label product that lays social functionality on top of a pay-TV provider's EPG so that viewers can see what their friends are up to and then act on that information... by actually changing the channel or hitting 'Record,'" KIT Digital's Global Lead Analyst Alan Wolk told Lost Remote.
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