Posts Tagged ‘Social TV’

Last night’s game didn’t only beat the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards’ record of 3.1 million social media comments, it crushed the record with a whopping 12.2 million social media comments. Bluefin Labs breaks it down in 3 great infographics.

AllFacebook Marketing Conference returns to San Francisco on June 28-29! Join us and get a how-to guide for marketing to Facebook’s 800 million users. A full agenda will be announced soon. Keep an eye on our event site for more information. Special early pricing is available for only $249 until this Wednesday, February 15, so register today.

This morning a brand new platform is dropping on the Social TV scene that claims to be a whole different ball game from all the other Social TV apps out there. It’s called TV Dinner and co-founder Adam Broitman says, “We believe our interface is completely unique—not just in the social television space, but in the social media space at large.”

This week social check-in app GetGlue announced that they closed a $12 million round of financing. The round, led by Rho Ventures, with participation from TimeWarner Investments, RRE Ventures and Union Square Ventures is the company’s largest round to date. But what are they going to do with the money? A spokesperson from GetGlue gave us the lowdown.

Myspace is positioning themselves to be the next big player in the social TV space. At CES 2012, Justin Timberlake, co-owner of Myspace, took the stage to reveal, “We’re ready to take television and entertainment to the next step by upgrading it to the social networking experience.”

Bluefin ranks the overall top 10 shows and events in 2011, the top 10 series, and the top 10 social TV networks. Check out the infographic after the jump to find out if your favorite programming made the cut.

The end of 2011 is fast approaching and SocialGuide, the social entertainment guide that monitors real-time buzz about TV and movies, is celebrating the coming of the new year with an infographic roundup of the most social TV shows, movies, networks and sporting events of 2011. Did your favorite TV shows and movies make the cut?

Three Social TV CEOs–Somrat Niyogi of Miso, Itzik Cohen of ClipSync, and Sean Casey of Social Guide–discuss the future of the social television industry.

Chill.com is making the TV viewing experience more social than ever, letting users watch television shows, live events and music videos with friends. They’re running the latest Hulu episodes of popular shows like Dancing with the Stars, House, Law & Order and more on a schedule and viewers can tune in to watch their favorite shows with their friends and people from all over the world (at least in places where Hulu is available).

Today social TV platform ClipSync is announcing ClipSync Moments—a new application that lets viewers socialize around the video moments that matter most to them.

How long can you go without checking your mobile phone? According to a new study from Razorfish and Yahoo, not many of us can go for very long. In fact, a whopping 80 percent of those surveyed said that they are mobile multitasking while watching TV.