Smart Screen News Headlines

Dan Rose, VP of partnerships for Facebook, believes that Facebook can catch up to Twitter as a second-screen experience for television — but the company has a long way to go befo... More

Investment from major media buyers, advertisers and brands in the internet-connected TV space has so far focused on the second screen, rather than connected TV, as the consumer sca... More

Second screen is big news at the moment. It’s been listed as a trend to look out for in 2013, and a number of big brands are launching into the fray. We asked our head of strateg... More

Chances are, if you’ve enjoyed you in-flight experience of late it had something to do with Massive Interactive. The company provides the in-flight entertainment systems for Virg... More

This year’s Super Bowl didn’t break any viewer records but they came in close with an audience of 108.4 million people. (Last year’s game broke the record with 111.3 million.... More

Sky is introducing free, second-screen voting for live entertainment show Got To Dance. The pay TV operator is using Monterosa Productions’ LViS Studio platform to create second-... More

Watching television while also using a smartphone or tablet is one of the most popular leisure activities of the mobile era. The mobile industry is working hard to create mobile ap... More

Last year GetGlue launched a new iPad app and website with a social program guide, activity feeds and community features. Today, they’ve bought that functionality to the iPhone. ... More

Consumers will eventually pay less for entertainment streamed to smaller devices, with studios and distributors basing prices on the size of the destination device, movie mogul Jef... More

Another Super Bowl Sunday has come and gone, and in addition to the Baltimore Ravens, this year's winners include halftime headliner Beyoncé, commercial fan-favorite Budweiser and... More

Twitter is acquiring social TV analytics firm Bluefin Labs – but why is it interested in bringing the big data company onboard? Well, close to two thirds of UK Twitter users use ... More

Already airborne with an inflight entertainment channel, Virgin Produced is taking its programming on the road through mobile devices. Richard Branson's production shingle has deve... More

The BBC achieved another landmark first with the launch of a new second-screen Top Gear app for BBC Worldwide viewers when the new series of the show kicked off this month. Called ... More

Twitter has acquired Bluefin Labs, a social TV analytics company that was founded in 2008, sources say. Although we don't know the exact acquisition price, we were told this is Twi... More

Among the many Super Bowl commercials with second-screen tie-ins this year, my hat is off to Coca-Cola for its Coke Chase sequence. Much like last year’s use of Polar Bears acros... More

Authenticated subscribers of Time Warner Cable and DirecTV can now catch all of the Los Angeles Lakers games on their iOS devices, home computers, and Android tablets and phones. T... More

Sundance Channel is planning a fun social push tied to some of the network’s original programs. Not content to simply create a generic second-screen experience, the AMC Networks-... More

When Barbosa family members botched their cover of an old Brazilian gospel song last year on a family video, they thought it was pretty funny—funny enough to upload to YouTube. B... More

There is no shortage of second screen applications consumers can access while watching television—and the landscape is likely to become even more cluttered with start-ups. Indeed... More

In the first of a series on mobile advertising as part of The Drum's Mobile supplement, here we take a look at the trend of dual screening and its impact on mobile advertising. Wit... More