Super Bowl XLVII promises to be the most social Super Bowl ever, and might even be the most social single event of 2013. To prepare you for the event, here’s a roundup of ways to stay connected before, during, and after the game whether you like football or care more about the commercials and halftime show (or the Puppy Bowl). Read more
Save $60 on our Job Search Intensive, an interactive online event starting June 11, 2013. Find the direction you need for your job search. Each week, we’ll feature career experts, recruiters, and HR professionals who will discuss how to get noticed by recruiters, interviewing tips, and how to create a stellar resume. Sign up soon while our early rates last. Register now.
It’s been a year since USA Network innovated with their Ustream of the Westminster Kennel Dog Show. In honor of the 137th Annual Show, the network is once again bringing social TV to the dogs. We interviewed USA’s SVP of Digital, Jesse Redniss about the big event. Read more
Just in time for CES, the second screen startup Zeebox has announced a deal with Gracenote to bring automatic content recognition (ACR) to its apps, enabling users to automatically identify the show they’re watching. Gracenote’s Entourage audio fingerprinting product can identify TV shows and movies — both live and recorded — after listening for a few seconds. Read more
The long wait is finally over. Zeebox has officially launched in the US. One of the most highly anticipated social TV announcements of the year is finally here and it's as glamorous and colorful as we predicted. Less than a year since the platform has launched in the UK, Zeebox is now in the US for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android and the Web. They're launch partners include Comcast, NBCU, HBO and Cinemax. Here are the details of one of the biggest social TV launches in history.
GetGlue HD, the anticipated new iteration of GetGlue, has officially launched for the iPad. We recently interviewed CEO and Founder Alex Iskold who described the major changes that would take their 500 million data points to rethink TV discovery. Now the ultimate test has come, will people us it? Will they continue to scale their 3 million users and be the social TV startup to watch?
It's bit unusual for a startup to publish survey data for all to see, especially in a highly-competitive space like the second screen. But Zeebox has done just that, releasing a Google doc of survey data spanning both the UK and the US, where it plans to launch shortly. The idea is that Zeebox will gain insights from others analyzing its data.
Boston-based startup Sidecastr has recently emerged out of stealth mode, the latest second screen app to hit the social TV world. Available now for iPad, the app has a mission "no less than becoming the 'social network for social TV,'" according to Steven Brand, the Harvard-educated founder and CEO. In the face of stiff competition, here's a look at what Sidecastr...
UK-based Zeebox has announced its expansion to Australia, a joint venture with Network Ten, which will launch the product in that market. The launch comes right before Zeebox's planned debut in the US, coming later this summer. It also underscores Zeebox's aggressive international growth plans.
On this Sunday, an exclusive trailer for the upcoming Ridley Scott movie, "Prometheus" will air on Channel 4 in the UK. Viewers will be prompted to share their thoughts with the hashtag #areyouseeingthis. Then in the next commercial break, a follow-up ad will air featuring selected tweets using the hastag -- the first time we've heard of live or nearly-live tweets in a commercial.
The battle over the second screen is heating up in the UK. The content-recognition app Shazam, which has been aggressively expanding into TV, has signed a exclusive deal in the UK with broadcaster ITV. Under the deal, ITV's sales team can offer advertisers the ability to make their spots "Shazamable" for coupons and other content, undoubtedly for an additional fee.
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