Smart Screen News Headlines

Vizrt Ltd. and Zeebox announced today a partnership that allows broadcasters and program makers to integrate interactive second screen experiences into live TV shows. The partnersh... More

Twitter and TV go together like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Or to use a more recent reference, Jay Z and Beyoncé. In many ways, Twitter is an organic digital counterpart to te... More

USA Network says it has upgraded the second-screen experience it provides viewers by allowing fans of its shows to access custom content, video, voting and poling and interact thro... More

Rovi said Cogeco Cable is the first pay TV provider to launch its TotalGuide xD app for Apple's iPad, which lets subscribers browse TV listings and schedule DVR recordings with the... More

In an effort to improve its online and mobile advertising, socially powered TV guide BuddyTV has formed a partnership with National CineMedia (NCM) Networks, the company behind the... More

When a brand name becomes a verb, you know it has hit the big time. Hoover did it. Google did it. Another technology company wants us to believe "Shazamming" has entered our day-to... More

As we watch the rapid consolidation in the second-screen space, we have seen the inevitable rise of Twitter as a tool for enhanced and interactive television. And the explosion of ... More

The more screens you have, the more likely you are to engage in media multitasking. To find out what all that means for programmers and advertisers, the Time Warner Medialab conduc... More

If you are looking for a second screen, enhanced interactive TV app, zeebox is loaded with features and easy to use. It's well organized making it easy to engage in social TV-chatt... More

Interactivity across the broadcast spectrum is the new name of the game as broadcasters seek to expand — or perhaps more accurately, keep — viewers who spend increasingly more ... More

Captivating the imagination of millions of viewers around the world, Game of Thrones, Juego de Tronos, returns for its third season on CANAL+ Spain accompanied by an engaging secon... More

Fans of CBS’s "The Bold and the Beautiful" can now experience the show in an entirely new dimension with an interactive second-screen experience that syncs in real-time to the sh... More

Magic Ruby, the leader in delivering monetizable content and immersive applications for the second screen, has been appointed to create the second screen companion application for ... More

Fox Networks has been experimenting with second-screen apps for more than a year, and the company's conclusion from its work in the space is that second-screen apps are not a passi... More

Starz is leaning heavily on media-services outfit Deluxe to power its Play-branded suite of TV Everywhere online services and apps. Deluxe Digital Distribution provides processing,... More

Wednesday afternoon at GDC 2013 (game developers conference) in San Francisco, Microsoft provided some background information on its second screen Xbox 360 experience, called Smart... More

On the second day of SES New York, Twitter’s Vice President of Global Brand Strategy Joel Lunenfeld spoke about the evolving world of Twitter marketing and how the social network... More

Madness reigned on the social TV rankings this week. The NCAA men's basketball tournament accounted for 15 of the 20 top programs on cable and broadcast. More than half of the firs... More

When the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 3, an average of 108.4 million people tuned into the game on CBS. While they watched, 5.3 mi... More

Participant Media, the company behind films such as “Good Night and Good Luck,” “Lincoln” and “The Help,” is launching a new cable TV channel, “Pivot.” The channel ... More