Who tweets? New study breaks it down
Twitter is a popular TV promotion and newsgathering tool, but who’s posting and reading all those tweets? Pew Internet published a study that breaks it down by demographic, as well as sheds some light on how people are using Twitter. For starters, 8% of online Americans tweet, with a 18 to 29 year-olds as the [...]
Would you watch a TV show on Twitter.com?
On the new Twitter, clicking a tweet will spawn a preview in the right pane. When there’s a link to a YouTube or Ustream clip — two of Twitter’s first video partners — it will automatically embed the corresponding video player on Twitter.com. Twitter has announced a new video partner — Blip.TV, which features over [...]
Tweet briefs: CBS Local, BIM, Yahoo Local, Patch
Tweetable links we sent from @lostremote today: – CBS Local sites working on a “local answers” service – BIM’s local TV sites will soon add casual games from MindJolt – Yahoo Local officially debuts hyperlocal product (see original story) – Patch debuts its 500th site, did it kill a paywall? – Comcast debuts its Xfinity [...]
ABC-Disney adds new shows to Netflix
In a new licensing deal, ABC is adding hundreds of new TV episodes to Netflix, from Desperate Housewives to Ugly Betty — and every episode of Lost. Shows from the Disney Channel and ABC Family will be included, as well. The catch? The shows are only available to watch 15 days after the air. The [...]
Bravo TV launches Twitter experience
BravoTV.com has launched a new Twitter experience that lets fans browse and engage with tweets from stars of many of its shows, like Real Housewives and Top Chef All Stars. The dashboard has three parts — browse tweets with “Tweet Tracker,” spout off with “Just Sayin‘” and face off with Twitter debates on “Tweet Battles.” [...]
Couric connects with viewers via social media
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric says she misses the unique connection she had with her Today Show viewers during her 15 years on the show. “People used to say to me, ‘I feel like I know you,’” Couric said in an interview with Brian Solis on the web show Revolution. “And I would say, [...]
Twitter ticker, social TV guide among contest apps
Samsung is holding a $500,000 contest called “Free the TV Challenge” to spur developers to create more apps for Samsung TV sets, and there are some pretty cool entries. One of the submitted apps is called “Twitter Twicker.” As this video shows, connect your Twitter account, and tweets start appearing in a clean ticker across [...]
Social TV helping drive television ad growth
When newspapers began a downward spiral, many assumed that television would go down with it. But after a couple tough years, it looks like the opposite is happening — while internet advertising is growing, so is TV advertising. In fact, a new forecast out today predicts TV ads will account for a 40.7 percent share [...]
Samsung hits 1 million TV app downloads
Last March, Samsung debuted downloadable apps on its larger Smart TV sets and Blu-ray players. Over 200 apps strong, viewers buy and download apps straight from the TV. Now less than a year later, Samsung says viewers have downloaded over 1 million of them. Among the most popular: Hulu Plus, ESPN Next Level, CinemaNow and [...]
Tweet briefs: Twitter tips, Hulu show, Tumblr
Some recent TV and social media tweets from @lostremote: – Top 5 Twitter tips for TV anchors, from a TV anchor – Hulu is hiring to create a web show kind of like Talk Soup – Tumblr crashes for a day, how much does it matter? – Which TV channels can’t cord cutters live without?
Brady: Working with TV hardest part of TBD.com
The Guardian interviewed former TBD GM Jim Brady, who recently quit the most ambitious online news effort startup at a local TV station in recent memory: the launch of TBD.com. We posted a quote in an earlier story, but now the full text of Sarah Hartley’s interview is out. What was the hardest thing about [...]
TBD, NBC and moving beyond TV on the web
Visitors to WJLA-TV’s website in Washington DC were greeted this August with a story that started with the line, “Reader warning: Do not get too comfortable on this website.” A short time later, WJLA.com redirected to TBD.com, an aggressive local startup news site launched by Allbritton, the owner of WJLA-TV. Its sister cable channel, Newschannel [...]
New TV remote powered by Twitter
An Android tablet app in Japan integrates a TV remote and program guide with real-time Tweets. It’s one thing to display Twitter alongside a program guide, but this app uses language processing and hashtags to approximate what people think about what they’re watching — even breaking it down by demographic and geography. The Twitter ratings [...]
YouTube debuts personal TV channels
You may not be able to watch the major networks via Google TV on your TV set, but now you can watch personalized video channels via a new feature on YouTube’s Leanback experience. In essence, you can create your own auto-playing custom channels that learn what you want to watch based on your selections and [...]
ABC News part of Flipboard iPad trial
You may have played with Flipboard, a very cool iPad app that turns your social steams into a vivid, magazine-like experience. Today they announced (release) they’re partnering with a small group of publishers, including ABC News, to add them as content sources. Here’s the ABC News page on Flipboard’s app (above), in a magazine layout [...]
Tweet briefs: Netflix, Zuck, Local TV, Hulu
The latest TV and social media related tweets from @lostremote: – Netflix willing to shell out $100k for in-season TV episodes, reports NY Post – Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to make rare TV appearance on 60 Minutes – FCC commissioner says local TV news is “in grave peril” – Networks grapple with Hulu video ad sales
New TV series to feature Foursquare check-ins
The entertainment company Endemol has teamed up with Foursquare to develop a new TV series that will somehow incorporate check-ins into the show. Reports Variety: Endemol is still mulling an exact format for the Foursquare show — but the show seems likely to have an “Amazing Race”-style competitive element, in which participants travel to various [...]
TBD.com halts ad sales on partner blogs
The D.C. news site TBD.com, which is the online arm of WJLA-TV, announced today that it will stop serving ads on partner blogs in its community network. “We have heard many enthusiastic accounts about how TBD links have boosted the traffic of network members,” explained an email to the partner publishers. “Unfortunately, the advertising aspect [...]
