Posts Tagged ‘television’

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.”

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.

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.

Last week we shared a new study that revealed that 80 percent of viewers multitask while watching TV. Today we’ve got an even more surprising multi-media multitasking statistic for you. According to a new study from CTAM, television viewers aged 13 to 34 partake in 4 or 5 other activities on average while watching TV.

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.

Bragging that you have the largest video library of any web destination site is a pretty bold remark, but if it is true, all the power to the platform. TumTiki is making that claim. TumTiki is a cute name, and the company, owned by Frontier Communications, just launched its online video site this week.

Popular social TV app GetGlue has released their October stats, including a list of the most popular television shows by check-in. How did your favorite shows measure up?

As more and more people start getting their entertainment fix on the web, what’s to become of our antiquated TV sets? A new infographic from Freemake.com asserts that YouTube has already killed TV. Though this may be a bit of an overstatement, the infographic does contain some fun statistics and does bring up some interesting questions. Check it out after the jump.

When the iPad launched it was touted as a content consumption device. You can read books, play games, browse the web, watch movies, and watch television on an iPad. I’ve found myself using my iPad for watching video broadcast via the Internet much more than I expected,  such as baseball games using the MLB At [...]

Most everyone knows that today, Monday, October 31, 2011, is Halloween, but for the folks at NBC it’s a bit more than that as the television network launches Rock Center, their new hour long news magazine featuring Brian Williams. To television viewers Rock Center is yet another attempt at an alternative to CBS’ 60 Minutes, [...]

In the past year or so, social TV has blown up. People are checking in to their favorite shows, checking show rankings based on social media buzz, and even TV Guide has jumped on the social TV bandwagon. But does social media buzz really drive television ratings? A new study says yes.