Showtime’s honoring fans in a new and hilarious way. The Shameless Awards, a digital activation to coincide with this year’s season of Showtime’s dramedy, enables fans to celebrate their friends’ shameless behavior. Each a week, a new person is awarded $500 for highlighting such behavior. Read more
Looking for guidance as you job hunt? Look no further. Join our Job Search Intensive, an interactive online event starting June 11, 2013. Over four weeks, you’ll watch live weekly webcasts featuring HR professionals, career experts, and recruiters who will share best practices for landing interviews and getting hired. Register here.
Want to understand one of the most important phenomenons of social TV? Start following some fake social TV accounts on Twitter. As Showtime’s “Homeland” continues to thrive as the number one drama on traditional TV, a new star has emerged on social TV. If you’re a Homeland fan, here’s the number one (fake) Twitter account you must be following. Read more
The Menlo Park, California-based Arktan is announcing a new partnership with Turner around its flagship product, SocialStreams that the company has executed for USA Networks, X-Factor, Showtime, WWE, ABC and more. CEO Rahul Aggarwal is speaking at the Social TV Summit on a panel right now (here's our live stream).
On Sunday night the final season of Weeds premiered, a centerpiece of premium cable that helped define Showtime's footprint across TV. Season two of Episodes -- the hilarious Matt LeBlanc plays "himself" -- also took off to fans' delight. Borgias, The Big C and Shameless have all added to the Showtime's arsenal, already riding high with Dexter and Homeland. We spoke to newly appointed Vice President of Digital Services, Brian Swarth about Showtime's social TV strategy.
After a long wait since the original announcement, Showtime Anytime, the network's second-screen on-demand app has arrived (for iPad). Showtime now boasts a catalog of impressive shows ranging from Dexter to Homeland to the recently-premiered Shameless, Californication and the brand new House of Lies. The free iPad app features more than 400 hours of original shows and movies.
Social TV startup Miso has been having a great fall. They've secured partnerships with two MSOs (DIRECTV and AT&T U-verse) and now they've added another $4 million in funding from Khosla Ventures to their original $2 million, which, Google Ventures and Hearst Interactive Media participated in.
At the recent Social TV Summit, founder Somrat Niyogi continued to remind everyone that Miso is now more than just a check-in. For Showtime's Dexter (their first launch partner last month) they synchronized, "interesting tidbits, facts, quotes, and more," almost like an opt-in pop-up video for the show...
Social TV startup Miso has been having a great fall. They've secured partnerships with two MSOs (DIRECTV and AT&T U-verse) and now they've added another $4 million in funding from Khosla Ventures to their original $2 million, which, Google Ventures and Hearst Interactive Media participated in.
At the recent Social TV Summit, founder Somrat Niyogi continued to remind everyone that Miso is now more than just a check-in. For Showtime's Dexter (their first launch partner last month) they synchronized, "interesting tidbits, facts, quotes, and more," almost like an opt-in pop-up video for the show...
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