Smart Screen News Headlines

Magic Ruby, the leader in delivering monetizable content and applications for the second screen, today announced the availability of its Live Sync feature. This live sync solution ... More

Even watching TV has become a multi-tasking activity. We have one eye on the show, and the other eye is glued to Twitter or Facebook. We watch the social channel on our second scre... More

Since its launch six months ago, more than 1.8 million Viggle subscribers have registered for the social TV service, and have checked into TV shows 151 million times. It also more ... More

Independent TV production powerhouse Endemol Group is overhauling its management and replacing its Endemol Worldwide Brands (EWB) division structure with a group commercial board m... More

BT has appointed Red Bee Media to produce the branding for its forthcoming BT Sport channels. Red Bee, which has previously produced branding for broadcasters including the BBC, is... More

With online sales up 18 per cent over the recent Christmas period it seems that enticing customers in-store is becoming increasingly challenging. Augmented reality could be the sol... More

It was fitting that the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony boosted its social media profile this year. One of the night's most popular bits basically rehashed a viral Faceboo... More

For the first time in the show’s history, a brand new second screen app from BBC Worldwide will accompany the international broadcasts of Top Gear. Set to be broadcast ‘just da... More

Time Warner Cable and DigitalSmiths, the Durham based video discovery company, have partnered to integrate the DigitalSmiths Seamless Discovery platform to provide better search an... More

As TV networks look for more ways to keep viewers from switching channels, they're looking to their talent to embrace the second screen and chat with fans. ConnecTV, the Silicon Va... More

There’s not a lot of common ground between digital media and television, but huge live events—especially the Super Bowl—are just as important for both media because they guar... More

For millions of U.S. consumers, one screen in the living room is not enough. A new study from KPMG finds that 60% of American television viewers are devoted multitaskers, watching ... More

It’s a relentless drumbeat: the TV industry is dead. It’s just like the music industry. 20somethings are avoiding the cord. I want HBO a la carte. YouTube will kill cable. The ... More

To see how much Twitter has grown in the past four years, just look at the 2013 Inauguration Day numbers below compared to 2009. In a little over one hour, there were 1.1 million t... More

As part of its expanding relationship with FOX Sports Media Group, iPowow, the Participation TV specialists, now offers SPEED viewers in-race LIVE voting as part of network coverag... More

KartinaTV, an OTT broadcaster for Russian-speaking audience outside of Russia, is collaborating with Comigo, the creator of a smart TV platform. Under the agreement, Comigo will pr... More

German commercial broadcaster Sat.1 is to employ an interactive application, Sat.1 Connect, on selected programmes to enable viewers to follow and comment on programmes while they ... More

Netflix and YouTube have teamed up to launch DIAL, a protocol that helps developers of second-screen apps to discover and launch applications on smart TVs and connected devices. Th... More

Every Tuesday on Making it in America, we explore hot new trends and technology that will blow your mind! To learn about some of these latest and greatest tech trends, we invited t... More

TweetTV, the social media TV Guide, discovery tool, and Twitter-based social media platform, is launching what it calls “super responsive designed” mobile HTML5 applications th... More