Smart Screen News Headlines
Second Screen Tablet Apps: Hits, Misses, and What You Need to Know for Success (TabTimes)
To outward appearances, all elements necessary to fuel a thriving second screen app market exist today. I recently moderated a great panel at the Digital Hollywood Content Summit i... More
SportsBase Offers Customized Social Second-Screen Experiences for Any Digital Environment (Digital Signage Connection)
SportStream has announced the launch of SportsBase, a customizable fan experience platform for teams, leagues, connected TV, media companies and others to create and manage tailore... More
Social TV Users Value Information Over Community & Games – Viacom (IP&TV News)
A wide-ranging study by US network Viacom has found that there are three key types of motivation for viewers to engage in TV-related social media activities – functional, communa... More
Dish Network’s Apps Alone Might Be Enough to Make You Subscribe (Wired)
Dish is one of the few cable or satellite providers that understands something very important: People want their TV fix wherever they are–not just in the living room, parked in f... More
Dijit Unveils NextGuide Web with Facebook-Sourced TV Recommendations (Engadget)
Dijit Media just launched a closed beta of its browser-based service, NextGuide Web, which expands on the features of the NextGuide iPad app. NextGuide's interface will be familiar... More
An Interview with Shazam’s New CEO Rich Riley (Lost Remote)
There are over quarter billion people who have Shazam installed on their mobile device. This astounding number instantly makes Shazam a big player in the second screen market. When... More
Second-Screen Options Draw U.S. Open to ESPN Deal (Washington Examiner)
On Thursday, the USTA announced a new 11-year multiplatform broadcast deal with ESPN. The deal will start in 2015 and will make the network the exclusive home of all U.S. Open tenn... More
Twitter’s Fred Graver on 5 Ways to Engage Second-Screen Viewers (Fast Company)
For more on global leaders in technology, design, media, music, movies, marketing, television, and sports, see Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People In Business 2013 report. Re... More
Social TV and the Multi-Screen Revolution: How Can TV Media Buyers Leverage the Trend? (Capitol Media Solutions)
Remember when the main thing distracting consumers from your TV spots was dinner or the kids? The explosion of social media has changed that - some say for the worse. Today’s T... More
SuperBrands and the Unreasonable Screen: How to Lead in Mobile (Business2Community)
I was speaking with David Epstein, the founder of The Unreasonable Institute, the brainchild of Unreasonable at Sea, the Google sponsored innovation ship that is presently sailing ... More
The CW Introducing ‘CW Seed’ Digital and Social Hub (Lost Remote)
The CW is planning to rebrand its digital studio CWD as “CW Seed,” evolving it into a digital destination for loyal CW fans. The network will announce CW Seed at its upfront pr... More
Shopping App Uses Audible Magic’s SmartSync for Real-Time Purchases from TV Shows (CE Daily – Subscription)
E-commerce and the iPad have enabled a service that allows TV viewers to shop for products they see on a TV program, said Lisa Farris, CEO of Get*This, which recently launched an i... More
All Screens Are Created Equal At USA Network (Herald Online)
USA Network today announced it is redefining how consumers watch and interact with TV by unifying the viewing experience - both visually & functionally - across all devices. ... More
Upfronts: Turner Execs Tout Multi-Screen Push, Cable’s Gains (Variety)
Turner Broadcasting execs will talk up cable's gains over the broadcast nets and efforts to court viewers on multiple screens at its upfront presentation at the Hammerstein Ballroo... More
Analyst: Nintendo “Positioned Perfectly” to Capitalize on Second-Screen Trend (Wii U Daily)
EEDAR analyst, Jesse Divnich, recently sat down for an interview with EDGE magazine to discuss Nintendo and the Wii U. He acknowledges Nintendo's proclivity in "going against the g... More
Mobile TV and Video Viewers to Top 2bn (Advanced Television)
Recent findings from Juniper Research suggest that by 2017, 2 billion mobile and tablet users will watch TV and video on their devices. This is attributed to the growing popularity... More
The Couch Potato is About to Get a Workout (Financial Post)
The couch potato could be getting a bit of a workout. If you've bought a television in the last two years, it likely has connectivity built somewhere inside of its software. While ... More
SimulTV Launches a Single-Screen ‘Second Screen’ Experience (Venture Beat)
Who needs a second screen when you can use one screen to watch, share, and see what others are saying about life television entertainment? Today SimulTV launched a new online TV-vi... More
FTV Adds Second Screen, Augmented Reality for Connected Viewers (Rapid TV News)
French PSB group France Télévisions is furthering its digital and connected TV strategy by adding two new offers based on augmented TV and second-screen technologies. The new sec... More
Monterosa and MediaCom Team Up for Second Screen Ads for Cancer Research’s Race for Life (TV App Market)
Cancer Research UK's Race for Life together with MediaCom Beyond Advertising and Monterosa are launching two TV spots during Saturday May 18th's Britain's Got Talent show to rally ... More
