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Sony, Pearl TV Develop First ATSC 3.0 Application Environment for Next-Generation Broadcast TV Model Market (SSN)
Pearl TV announced a collaborative project with Sony Electronics to develop an essential viewer navigation ingredient for next-generation television – a new type of on-screen tel... More
New Digital Series Explores the Future of Humans in the Age of Advanced Technology (Found Remote)
Nicole Greiner, VAST Media: In cooperation with ARTE, ORF and production studio Bilderfest GmbH, pubcaster BR launched the new seven-part web series “Homo Digitalis“. The serie... More
Meerkat Is The New, New Thing
By Alan Wolk Ever since Twitter “broke” at SXSW in 2007, industry observers have been looking for the new new thing, the technology that they can say “I was there first” a... More
The Pictures Get Even Smaller: Video Stars Take On The Movie Industry
By Alan Wolk I spent the day at BBTVCON, moderating a panel on 2nd Screen (more about that later) and attending the fascinating opening keynote by Awesomeness TV’s Chief Digital... More
Lots Of Potential: How 2nd Screen Will Transform Next Year’s Oscars
By Alan Wolk This year’s Oscars was a dud on many levels, or maybe it just seemed that way after last year, when the energy level was high, Ellen was ordering pizzas and taking ... More
Ready For Its Close-Up: How 2nd Screen Is Going To Transform The Oscars
By Alan Wolk With the Oscars fast approaching, it’s interesting to think about what the show might look like once Twitter’s new third party ad system in place. That’s the ne... More
Is Twitter TV’s Best Promotional Vehicle?
By Alan Wolk Twitter’s decision to allow third party sites to run tweets as native advertising may be the best news the television industry has gotten in quite a while. It means... More
Right On Target at The Grammy’s
By Alan Wolk One of the topics I’ve been most interested in lately is how the television industry is going to replace the revenue typically brought in by interruptive advertisin... More
2nd Screen and the Super Bowl
By Alan Wolk Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend and 2nd screen promises to be a major part of it. Facebook and Twitter both have Super Bowl home pages set up to aggregate incoming ... More
MCNS Come of Age
By Alan Wolk Once dismissed as the domain of cute kittens and sneezing pandas, online video is coming into its own, and 2015 promises to be the year it leaves its childhood behind... More
CBS Keynote, NBC, SyFy Announced for CES Summit
By Chris Tribbey The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has become the must-attend event for everyone in both the content and hardware industries, and the 2nd Screen So... More
Defiance Showrunner Kevin Murphy To Deliver Keynote At 2nd Screen Summit
Kevin Murphy, one of Hollywood’s top showrunners, will be delivering the keynote at this year’s 2nd Screen Summit at International CES. Murphy, who is executive producer of the... More
TV of Tomorrow Event Hits New York
By Chris Tribbey Several members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) and the 2nd Screen Society (S3) will be on hand Dec. 9 at the fifth annual East Coast TV... More
Quick wrap-up of the 2nd Screen Society Panel at the Multiscreen Summit
I had the pleasure of attending a great panel this afternoon on the monetization and consumer engagement of second screen with a strong cast of industry players at the Multiscreen ... More
Creating the “Killer” 2nd Screen App: What Do Audiences Value the Most?
By Terence Keegan There may never be a single standard for what a second screen app should look like, or what functions it should serve — and that’s a good thing, judging from... More
