Smart Screen News Headlines

As the National Basketball Association playoffs head into the second round, NBA marketers have intensified the game for viewers with a second-screen promotion that will reward them... More

Audio Content Recognition (ACR) software*,  which synchronizes TV watching with a tablet or mobile device, will “change the world,” says Lou Paskalis,Vice President, Global M... More

French DTT family channel Gulli and producer Marathon Media, an affiliate of Zodiak Kids, have teamed up to launch a second-screen application linked to the animated series Redaka�... More

TV engagement app zeebox is developing new features that will let Pacific-time and VOD viewers revel in the same social experience as live audiences. "We're going to try to replay ... More

Samsung has acquired the Atlanta-based second-screen startup MOVL. The acquisition happened last month but hasn't been reported until now. Terms of the deal haven't been disclosed,... More

Pay-TV channel Canal+ has announced a new rugby app, Canal Rubgy App, which is available free of charge on smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android). This second-screen service, wh... More

SportStream, the leading social second-screen experience for sports fans, today announced the launch of SportsBase, a customizable fan experience platform for teams, leagues, conne... More

Automatic content recognition (ACR) technology provider, Civolution, has partnered with film company, 2CFILM, and app developer, Service2Media, on "App," the first-ever movie to fe... More

Calling a company that has 300 million users in over 200 countries, is adding between 2-3 million new users a week and generated some $300 million in sales in 2012, a startup may s... More

The 30-second commercial is not dead, despite what Trevor Beattie thinks. But, here’s something to consider, I could easily consume 4+ hours of content, anytime and just about an... More

Every so often it's a good exercise to examine some of the core beliefs of a company or industry and call out the ones that don't make any sense. In the short run, saying out loud ... More

Red Bee Media has signed a multi-year agreement to provide playout, channel and media management services for BT Sport.The media services company - which helped design the logo for... More

Apparently, 'second screen activity' is the official marketing term for the act of thumbing through your iPad's Twitter app while you watch TV. And predictably, we're all doing a h... More

Janney Capital analyst Tony Wible raised his price target on Buy-rated Viacom from $65 to $76 following solid second quarter results this morning.   Wible notes that results were... More

As we approach upfront season — the time of year when television networks show off their slate of programming to advertisers — one of the biggest buzzwords around is the term s... More

Microsoft's Internet Explorer team on Wednesday announced it has teamed up with fitness and nutrition site DailyBurn to bring a whole new workout experience to users' living rooms ... More

Al Jazeera English has given its iPad app an overhaul, adding a second screen to the channel’s live TV feed. Al Jazeera’s app offers free access to the channel’s live televis... More

The first fruits of television guide startup Dijit’s partnership with Watchwith have fallen from the tree today. The company announced that its NextGuide app, which provides a co... More

Technicolor and Dreamworks’ multiscreen video service M-Go has launched on Samsung smart TVs in the US, marking its first smart TV deployment to date. The free app is available n... More

Shazam has hired Yahoo’s former EVP of Americas, Rich Riley, as chief executive officer to continue the discovery app's march into TV, advertising, and toward an IPO. Rich replac... More