By all measures, the TV industry has only dipped its toes into the “transmedia” waters — weaving storylines seamlessly across multiple forms of media. But SyFy and partner Trion Worlds are jumping in headfirst with Defiance, a TV show and video game combination that mixes characters and storylines across linear and interactive worlds. If something changes in the TV world, the gaming world adapts — and vice versa.
Revamp your resume, prepare for the salary questions, and understand what it takes to nail your interviews in our Job Search Intensive, an online event and workshop starting June 11, 2013. You’ll learn job search tips and best practices as you work directly with top-notch HR professionals, recruiters, and career experts. Save with our early bird pricing before May 22. Register today.If you’re going to get noticed at SXSW, you better think big. While Mashable may have won the best publicity stunt contest with the appearance of Grumpy Cat, SyFy turned heads and generated lots of social attention with a pop-up hotel. The marketing effort was designed to promote the debut of Defiance, a new show and multiplayer game launching on April 15th.
On the same day as the Social TV Summit in San Francisco, TV ad sales execs packed Studio 8H (SNL's famous studio) for NBCU's Social TV Symposium. Sitting on the upper deck of the studio on the 9th floor you could easily see multiple "suits" peering over printed out PowerPoint and Excel budget sheets as they listened to Twitter, Facebook and NBCU's different TV brands discuss the state, progress and future of social TV.
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