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Carri Bugbee

Second coming: the evolution of the companion screen » Digital TV Europe - 0 views

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  • The huge growth of both the smartphone and tablet markets in recent years has brought with it a profound shift in viewing habits. According to recent Nielsen stats, 84% of US smartphone and tablet owners now say they use their devices as second screens while watching TV – looking up information about programmes they are watching, researching or buying goods and interacting with friends.
  • Recent months have seen the consolidation, and even closure, of some of the first crop of dedicated second screen services.
  • McDonnell claims that industry, and industry watchers, have been distracted by the buzz around so-called ‘second screening’ – “misinterpreting the audience behaviour and missing the point that it’s just all about making the TV show better.” He claims that part of this “distraction” has rested with the consumer-facing startups, eager to grab attention from broadcasters and monetise this space independently. “They’ve generated a lot of hype and have largely failed to capitalise on it,” says McDonnell.
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  • While Zeebox may have initially been focused on live, second-screen participation, Rose says that the service is now more focused on the social experience around the TV shows themselves. A recent major update to the app added MyTV, a personalised content feed based on the shows a user follows, with targeted recommendations, fan-community TV rooms and aggregated articles, news, and information. Zeebox is now even syndicating its production tools, synchronised show enhancements and TV chat rooms to its broadcast partners – including Fox, Discovery, NBC and Viacom.
  • likely part of the appeal for Shazam when it comes to TV is the possibility of tapping into the massive pre-existing broadcast ad market, offering multiscreen and interactive extensions for campaigns.
  • “Having one app that is able to do slightly different things for shows is probably a good place to be for anyone who’s investing in the technology side of it, but also for the viewer, because it’s something that you’re familiar with. There is different stuff to do in each show, so you come back for different shows that you like, and it’s a slightly different experience,” says McHugh.
  • “My belief is that broadcasters should take more ownership and control of that [second screen] space –
  • “It’s always been a quandary for broadcasters – do you partner with a cross-channel, cross-platform app such as Zeebox, do you make something for your own channels, or do you make an app for each show,” says Rose. “When it comes to second screen, I think the pendulum started with broadcasters creating an app for each show. We’ve seen in the US some broadcasters have made more than 200 apps and it’s now widely referred to as the app graveyard – these apps from several seasons back. They’re not maintained, they don’t work often, they’ve got old content, some post was last updated 185 days ago. It’s not good. So that then moved to broadcasters sometimes creating their own channel-based apps. But I think it’s hard to get traffic to a channel-based app. People don’t just watch one channel, they watch multiple channels, and so the pendulum kept swinging towards the more general-purpose app.”
  • “It’s always been a quandary for broadcasters – do you partner with a cross-channel, cross-platform app such as Zeebox, do you make something for your own channels, or do you make an app for each show,” says Rose. “When it comes to second screen, I think the pendulum started with broadcasters creating an app for each show. We’ve seen in the US some broadcasters have made more than 200 apps and it’s now widely referred to as the app graveyard – these apps from several seasons back. They’re not maintained, they don’t work often, they’ve got old content, some post was last updated 185 days ago. It’s not good. So that then moved to broadcasters sometimes creating their own channel-based apps. But I think it’s hard to get traffic to a channel-based app. People don’t just watch one channel, they watch multiple channels, and so the pendulum kept swinging towards the more general-purpose app.”
  • “My argument to broadcasters is don’t bother making a dedicated second-screen app. Just look at the simplest user-journey possible, and that’s through the web-browser,” McDonnell says. He claims it’s already “very well proven” that sending an audience to an interactive, mobile-enabled site will drive more traffic than forcing users to download a native app.
  • Carri Bugbee on 23 Apr 14
     
    The word we're using is 'repatriate' - we feel that TV is generating a lot of online activity and it's going elsewhere. We'd like to bring it back into the TV space if we can. What we try to do is almost replicate what people were doing online while they are watching TV and pro-actively serve them a whole lot of this extra information," he says
Carri Bugbee

Second-screen apps struggle with brand relevance as binge-watching grows - Mobile Marke... - 0 views

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  • While brand marketers are enthusiastic about trying to engage second-screen viewers, much of their focus right now is on Facebook and Twitter rather than standalone second-screen apps.
  • As a result, these apps are looking to reposition themselves to attract more use and brands
  • The idea is to provide users with an experience that they can engage with throughout the day related to their favorite TV shows, whether they want to catch up on the latest gossip about a show, chat about the latest episode or engage with the app while watching a show.
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  • “From Millward Brown’s 2014 AdReaction report, we see that, on average, multiscreen users in the US ages 16 to 45 spend 68 minutes using a smartphone while watching TV, and 24 minutes using a tablet while watching TV,” she said. “These numbers suggest the ability of a novel app, with a good user experience, to command a lot of time and attention from multiscreen audiences.
  • “Furthermore, the interactivity that could be offered by second screen apps is also something that resonates with audiences. The key is that second screen apps have to make the second screen experience easy and related and plug in to the content on the first screen rather than just the advertising.”
  • Overall, second screen experiences appear to be moving away from check-ins in a reflection of how viewers are increasingly watching multiple episodes of a show in one sitting. In fact, the least favorite activities for second-screen viewers are using an app to identify music on a TV show being watched (15 percent) and checking in to a TV program via an app (12 percent).
  • In comparison, 32 percent browse the Web for information about what they are watching on TV, 25 percent research products seen on TV, 21 percent chat with friends about a show, 20 percent post status updates, 18 percent visit a show's Web site.
  • Carri Bugbee on 23 Apr 14
     
    "Channel surfing has just about jumped the shark," said Jeff Malmad, managing director of mobile at Mindshare, New York. "People now binge-watch television on demand and engage with social apps on mobile while they're doing it.
Carri Bugbee

New S3 Research Paper Tackles Casting, Names Top Second Screen Apps : 2nd Screen Society - 0 views

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  • If done right, “casting” just might be the “killer” app the second screen world has been looking for.
  • The report pinpoints which apps are resonating with consumers (and why), and focuses on the new role “casting” content is playing in the second screen ecosystem.
  • “However, we also noted several apps — including Amazon Instant Video, M-Go, and several TV Everywhere services — that currently have no identifiable casting experience,” said Chuck Parker, chairman of the 2nd Screen Society.
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  • The second screen apps earning the highest praise in the report: • NextGuide, a personalized TV listings guide designed for the iPad. • BuddyTV, a universal TV search and recommendation portal. • Beamly (formerly Zeebox), a social TV and networking platform geared toward mobile devices. • Viggle, which offers engagement incentives for consumers to earn points for real-world rewards. • The USA Anywhere TV Everywhere app. • The HBO Go TV Everywhere app. • The NCAA March Madness app created by Turner and CBS. • SmartGlass, the game-centric second screen endevour Microsoft launched for the Xbox platform. • ConnectTV, which offers consumers the ability to clip and share a short clip of the show they’re viewing.
  • report also delves into the two major use-cases of second screen apps: the second screen as a companion experience and as a multi-screen viewing experience; and examines how developers and publishers have taken advantage of 4G LTE networks to create second screen apps experiences — especially for sporting events — that allow for seamless access in and out of the home.
Carri Bugbee

Apps For Mobile Viewing Challenge Cable Operators, TV Networks | Fox Business - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 16 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Media companies also want to gather and crunch all the data about viewing habits they can to sell to advertisers. The companies receive less high quality data when people watch network programming through an app from Dish Network or DirecTV instead of using their own apps.
  • "Both sides are paranoid. The operators think that if the programmers can create a one-to-one relationship with the consumer, some day they peel off and become their own HBO," said an executive at a media company involved in content negotiations who was not authorized to talk to the media.
  • Ad sales on the platforms are still small and hard to estimate, but revenue is expected to grow as more viewing moves to mobile devices
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  • There's also fear from operators that if programming providers build up large audiences through their own apps, they could one day go "over the top" or dispense with cable. One of the most closely watched issues in pay TV is when popular streaming service HBO Go will go direct to consumer.
  • usage of these apps is still small compared with how many people watch TV the traditional way. But it is growing quickly. The "Watch ESPN" app is available in 55 million U.S. homes and has been downloaded 24 million times, ESPN said, and minutes viewed on the app on mobile devices is up more than 6.5 times from two years ago.
  • Carri Bugbee on 16 Apr 14
     
    "Both sides are paranoid. The operators think that if the programmers can create a one-to-one relationship with the consumer, some day they peel off and become their own HBO," said an executive at a media company involved in content negotiations who was not authorized to talk to the media.
Carri Bugbee

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Predicts the Future of Streaming Video - Peter Kafka - Media ... - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 27 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • The one new nugget here is a Hastings prediction, held by many other people, that we’re moving to a world where “apps replace channels.”
  • “Existing networks, such as ESPN and HBO, that offer amazing apps will get more viewing than in the past, and be more valuable. Existing networks that fail to develop first-class apps will lose viewing and revenue.”
  • there’s room for lots of streaming video services, just like there are lots of cable channels today.
  • Carri Bugbee on 27 Apr 13
     
    we're moving to a world where "apps replace channels."
Carri Bugbee

i.TV Drops GetGlue Brand, Launches 'tvtag' App | Cable Television News | Broadcast Synd... - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 28 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Almost three months after striking a deal to acquire second screen TV app specialist GetGlue, i.TV has "retired" the GetGlue brand while introducing a new brand and social TV app called "tvtag" that will enable users to share, comment on and react to what they’re watching.
  • Tvtag will aggregate the i.TV second screen audiences from GetGlue, DirecTV and Nintendo (via the Nintendo TVii feature that’s baked into the Wii U console and Wii U GamePad). i.TV CEO Brad Pelo said the move will give tvtag access to an aggregate, potential reach of about 10 million users.
  • The new app replaces the GetGlue platform with one that  lets users “tag” moments within individual TV shows and sporting events with comments, doodles and memes. Keeping some of the old GetGlue features in place, tvtag will still let users “check in” to a show to unlock digital stickers, while also integrating user polls tied to TV content and the ability to share show-related info on Twitter and Facebook.
Carri Bugbee

Almost half of TV viewing to be app-based by 2020 | Rapid TV News - 0 views

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shared by Carri Bugbee on 15 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • In The Future of TV – A View from 2013, TDG asserts that in a shifting quantum media landscape video viewing will shift away from legacy pay-TV environments such as the living room television, and toward broadband and non-TV video platforms and app-enabled secondary screens such as tablets, which will in essence serve as second TVs.
  • the use of second screens like smartphones and tablets will pave the way to what it calls a full app-based ecosystem which will train users how to visit an app store, search and locate content, and download their own selection of third-party applications onto their devices.
  • pace of change it believes will be hindered by industry inertia, device replacement cycles, and resistance to change by the legacy TV viewing audience.
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Reisman on User-Centered Media: Social TV -- The "Killer App" for Coactive TV -- Ready ... - 0 views

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  • Casey Cushing on 02 Sep 11
     
    All of these promising killer apps have synergy with one another. Coactive TV is at heart hypermedia, and thus "everything is deeply intertwingled." (Quoting Ted Nelson, who also coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia.) A truly ubiquitous coactive TV service will be always on, and always aware of a viewer's TV context (except when disabled).
Carri Bugbee

GetGlue Sale: Let the Second-Screen Shakeout Begin | Variety - 0 views

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  • So what’s to become of the dozens of startups that came out of the second-screen craze? “There’s definitely going to be a lot of consolidation that happens,” said Jesse Redniss,
  • According to i.TV, GetGlue will remain a separate product while letting it benefit from i.TV’s “broader platform of partners and services.” Provo, Utah-based i.TV claims 15 million people use its TV app every month. ”Together, i.TV and GetGlue will reshape the social TV and second screen landscape,” i.TV CEO Brad Pelo said in announcing the deal.
  • In a fight for survival, ConnecTV has pivoted its strategy. Last week the startup, whose investors include 10 broadcast station groups, released an overhaul of its app refocused on a simple idea: It lets users “clip” six-second video segments from among 400 live TV channels and share them on Twitter and Facebook, via a link in email or within the app.
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  • ConnecTV’s previous app had signed up only 980,000 registered users; other social TV players are similarly tiny. U.K. second-screen import Zeebox, even with the backing of NBCU, Comcast and Viacom, has tallied only around 3.5 million registered users in the U.S. (it doesn’t disclose how many are active). Viggle, which rewards users for tuning in to TV, has made very little headway: It counted just 757,273 monthly active users for June.
  • An eMarketer analysis this month of several industry surveys conducted this year showed that just 15%-17% of TV viewers engaged in real-time socializing about the TV shows they were watching.
Carri Bugbee

Second screens popular but not always companion TV apps, study says - latimes.com - 0 views

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  • 87% of consumers are splitting their attention between the TV and their laptops, smartphones and tablet computers. Here's the kicker: Although such distracted viewing is common, fewer people are using these second screens to interact with the applications designed specifically for the TV programs they're watching.
  • Although these so-called "companion" applications are popular with some viewers, they don't resonate with most consumers,
  • 47% of viewers have used their portable devices to learn more about the TV shows or movies they're watching, or the actors appearing on screen. But they are turning to established sources, including IMDb, Wikipedia and social networks, for such information, NPD found.
Carri Bugbee

The Toad Stool by Alan Wolk: The Door To The Second Screen May Be Through The First - 0 views

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  • consumers have been slow to adopt any of the tablet and smartphone-based companion apps created for TV. It doesn’t seem to matter much what functionality the apps offer: discovery, additional content, social intercourse or remote control: the number of viewers willing to both download them and then use them on a regular basis has remained quite small*
  • There’s an oft-quoted Nielsen stat about how 84% of people are using their tablets while they are watching TV. Which generally means “checking their email or posting something on Facebook because they’re not all that engaged with whatever’s on TV.”
  • That’s where an actual second screen app may come into play. Both to initiate turning the first screen additional content on and off, and, once it’s up there, to interact with it. (Because for certain types of programming, polls and quizzes are always going to be an option.)
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  • I still firmly believe that program guide functionality is what’s going to get the mass of viewers over to the second screen: it’s just easier to control your TV from a touch screen device that already has a built-in keyboard
Carri Bugbee

SimulTV launches a single-screen 'second screen' experience | VentureBeat - 0 views

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  • TV Guide rolled out an app to see what’s playing, watch whatever’s on, and also tweet, post, and blog about it. And that Apple is rumored to be releasing a mini-TV tablet to enable an iOS-style second-screen experience.
  • SimulTV’s solution is to combine both screens, right on the web. So your football game, Twitter conversations, Facebook messages, online search, and text and voice chat with others on SimulTV who are watching the same thing as you.
  • by this summer, SimulTV promises to have more than 100 channels, including ”top channels” from Latin America, China, Japan and Europe, plus 5,000 video-on-demand titles. The service is HD-quality, with picture-in-picture for the truly ADHD social TV aficionados, and according to the company, takes only half the bandwidth of typically required.
Carri Bugbee

Twitter iOS Redesign Focuses on Streams, Media, TV and Photos - Mike Isaac - Social - A... - 0 views

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  • real aim to is help guide first-timers who have decided to download the app after seeing hashtags or “@” signs on TV ads.
  • Instead of taking days or weeks to figure out what’s so cool about Twitter, for instance, a newcomer could instantly stumble into a conversation happening about their favorite prime-time drama, during the very moment that show airs.
  • Much of the idea behind the overall redesign is to combat the massive user churn and retention problems
  • Carri Bugbee on 17 Sep 13
     
    Twitter is experimenting with another stream dedicated solely to TV-related tweets and conversations, one which will likely find its way into Twitter's redesigned app.
Carri Bugbee

Amazon Readies Set-Top Box for Holidays - WSJ.com - 0 views

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  • A key motivation for Amazon is boosting its Prime membership rolls, which may be bolstered by a set-top box.
  • Streaming video has been an increasing focus for Amazon, which has been racing to distinguish itself from rivals Netflix, Hulu LLC and others with exclusive content deals and a slate of television pilots that are set to become available starting later this year.
  • Based on the dizzying array of free and paid apps available on Roku devices--from the Yachting Channel to YogaGlo to Trigger Talk TV for gun enthusiasts—it is easy to imagine potential e-commerce tie-ins on an Amazon device.
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  • two most-watched Roku apps are Netflix and Amazon Instant Video, according to Roku's website.
  • The set-top box, which would pit the online retailer against a host of established rivals, is a small device that resembles a Roku Inc. player and is similarly styled as a platform to run apps and content from a variety of sources, these people said. It would also serve as a delivery vehicle for Amazon's existing streaming video service—available as part of its Prime membership
Carri Bugbee

Multiple TV related apps cooperate to amplify their advantages - nScreenMedia - 0 views

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  • A mélange of TV resource apps are getting together to help each other, and their users. Dijit, Thuuz, Tomorrowish, IVA and Simple.TV are partnering to integrate their products and services. The theory seems to be that they are stronger working together, rather than alone. Given the non-competitive positioning of each, this could be a boon for TV viewers. First a quick summary of what each of the companies does. Dijit’s NextGuide helps TV viewers discover new TV shows and remember to watch them. Thuuz provides real-time sports updates helping fans tune to the most interesting game on TV at any given time. Tomorrowish let’s viewers watching a show or event on-demand replay the social media buzz from the first broadcast. Internet Video Archive (IVA) specializes in providing show and movie trailers. Simple.TV provides live TV and network DVR services.
Carri Bugbee

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  • developers — including game makers — must constrain their initial app downloads to 200 MB or less. That size seems paltry on a device that ships in 32 GB and 64 GB flavors. Even on smartphones, games can be much larger than 200 MB. On Apple TV, there's far more to the story.
  • Apple's vision for a future where apps download quickly and transparently and nobody has to worry about managing storage space. tvOS will do that for you.
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