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Carri Bugbee

In TV We (Still) Trust: 73 Percent of Americans Cite Television as Their Preferred and ... - 0 views

  • Almost three quarters of Americans (73 percent) prefer to get their news from television, which also ranks first among the most trusted news outlets. Social media (23 percent) is the fifth preferred news outlet, behind news websites (52 percent), print magazines and newspapers (36 percent) and even radio (25 percent).
  • No one wants to pay for online news. Eighty-six percent of respondents believe that mobile and online news should be free. Only 10 percent of Americans pay for an online news subscription, but more than half (56 percent) pay for a print subscription.
  • Press releases are trusted. Of company-generated news, respondents report trusting press releases the most (33 percent).
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  • Forty-one percent of 18-34 year olds chose social media as their preferred news source, after television and news websites. 
Carri Bugbee

Twitter's Nascar TV Ad Schools Advertisers on New Product | Digital - Advertising Age - 0 views

  • ut Nascar's new page has a key new feature, which is the ability to pull in tweets related to a live event from a variety of sources. In the case of Nascar, tweets about Pocono 400 were being pulled in from drivers like Jeff Gordon as well as sports writers, and the curation was executed through an algorithm that searched for relevant content with the assistance of human editors, according to a Twitter blog post. It's further evidence of Twitter's desire to be the platform advertisers turn to when they're looking to execute promotions around major live events such as the Super Bowl or the Oscars. Last month, they announced a partnership with ESPN to create branded campaigns around tentpole sports events.
  • #Nascar page is the first of its kind and has a slightly different layout than the brand pages Twitter unveiled in December, which feature customizable header images and enable brands to keep a particular tweet -- often a photo or video that can auto-expand -- at the top,
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    But Nascar's new page has a key new feature, which is the ability to pull in tweets related to a live event from a variety of sources. In the case of Nascar, tweets about Pocono 400 were being pulled in from drivers like Jeff Gordon as well as sports writers, and the curation was executed through an algorithm that searched for relevant content with the assistance of human editors,
Carri Bugbee

New Data Surrounding Twitter, TV, and Brand Messaging - 0 views

  • recent study conducted by MarketShare suggests that TV ads are more effective when paired with paid Twitter advertising than without.
  • Nevertheless, advertisers in the US are seeing more ROI from their Twitter efforts, and 1 in 5 are now using Twitter in conjunction with a TV campaign, according to recent survey results from Ad Age.
  • Overall, 17.2 million unique authors sent tweets about TV during the study period, while 7.6 million tweeted about brands. The overlap results in 5.5 million people tweeting about both brands and TV. Among those 5.5 million, the most commonly tweeted brand categories were: consumer electronics (74%); restaurants (48%); food (29%); beverages (27%); and automotive (24%).
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    related news, a recent study conducted by MarketShare suggests that TV ads are more effective when paired with paid Twitter advertising than without.
Carri Bugbee

Twitter tied to ratings growth, finds new Nielsen-Social Guide study - Lost Remote - 0 views

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    Nielsen - along with its new acquisition Social Guide - have released new data that shows a positive correlation between Twitter volume and TV ratings.
Carri Bugbee

4th Edition of SocialTV Index Tracking Survey by Ring Digital llc Shows Twitter is Up 2... - 0 views

  • Ring Digital estimates the Social TV Engager population at ~57 million TV viewers.
  • Twitter was used by 28.4% of the Social TV Engager population up 28% from six months ago.
  • News was selected by 48.1% of Social TV Engagers as one of five genres of prime-time TV content about which they have voted, posted, shared or commented.
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  • The results reveal the strength of Twitter as a core news platform. Journalists, bloggers and athletes use Twitter as a next-generation newswire. For these users, Donald Trump has done a great service to the social media community by cementing the useful role that Twitter plays in news dissemination, even if the corporate team at Twitter continues to believe they can create a mass media juggernaut that competes head-to-head with Facebook."
Carri Bugbee

Why Intel and TiVo Are Cautious on New TV Interaction - Digits - WSJ - 0 views

  • But negative comments about the feature continued. A more recent factor was the highly publicized revelations about surveillance activities by the National Security Agency. “What pushed me over the hump was the whole NSA sort of thing,” Huggers says. “I don’t want to go there.”
  • Not that Intel doesn’t plan to offer plenty of ways to personalize the TV-watching experience. For example, the company cites a Personal Profiles feature that helps switch between individuals using the device, so they have access to relevant content and recommendations. Another option lets users add favorites so they have access to recently watched shows, with the ability to instantly pick up in the program where they left off.
  • Still another feature, called Spotlight, integrates recommendations based on what’s trending in social media as well as curating content based on a user’s age, interest and time of watching, the company says.
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  • Some others besides Intel that have experimented with new forms of interaction are also acting cautiously, given their current level of reliability and other issues. One is TiVo, the DVR pioneer, which has focused more lately on developing interface that can control TV offerings from a multitude of sources.
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    Why Intel and TiVo Are Cautious on New TV Interaction
Carri Bugbee

CBC expanding second screen concept with Arctic Air season finale | Marketing Magazine - 0 views

  • Each time the show goes to commercial, viewers following the TV broadcast with their computer, iPad or smartphone handy will be able to unlock unique content related to the finale’s plot that adds new dimensions to the story. (An on-screen prompt will read “The story continues now at CBC.ca/ArcticAir.”)
  • CBC’s goal is to reward the audience with a “transmedia storytelling event” that happens in tandem with the live broadcast.
  • provides more information on the characters, their motivations and elements that won’t be seen on TV.
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  • they will be able to choose to view material from different perspectives, including that of the hostage.
  • Other parts of the experience allow viewers to choose from a selection of missed calls on a character’s cell phone or to read their text messages to glean new information. “It’s more narrative detail for the superfans,” said Rodrigues.
  • Sproule said that Arctic Air’s additional content wasn’t “bolted on” after the episode had already been written and shot. “It’s part of the original script—it was part of the creative process,” she said.
Carri Bugbee

New Twitter-Style 'TV Guide' Makes Tweeting Easier - DNAinfo.com New York - 0 views

  • provides Twitter users a directory of live tweet streams for an event or broadcast — from political debates to press conferences to reality TV shows.
  • team would pick from a roundup of "qualified content producers" — such as writers for newspapers, magazines and blogs in teams' respective hometowns and each list would feature about 10-25 live Tweeters per event
  • Users can also mix and match their own custom stream of tweets highlighted by Chirp Guide or the site's users
Carri Bugbee

How Intel TV failed -- pay attention, Google and Apple | Internet & Media - CNET News - 0 views

  • or Internet-based TV to be a competitive option, it either needs to be cheaper than cable and satellite or it needs to provide the content that subscribers want in a better way.
  • For the companies still working on Web TV, it would mean charging less than traditional competitors for a service while paying more than traditional competitors to offer it.
  • for a Web TV offering to be truly Web TV, it would need to offer all the channels consumers want alongside the "over-the-top" video capabilities like Netflix and Hulu that they associate with Internet viewing.
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  • The idea of an online player taking over has affirmed cable and satellite companies' positions in the landscape and made all players realize what they could lose by rocking the boat, said Brannon.
  • The prospect of new tech competitors reiterated how important the traditional distributors are -- with their massive subscriber bases -- to media companies, who need as many people watching their programming as possible -- all while measuring how many of them there are -- in order to raise ad rates, he said.
  • average U.S. consumer packs in nearly 60 hours of media content each week, and more than half of that -- 35.1 hours -- is traditional television, according to Nielsen's latest cross platform report.
  • amount of time spent watching traditional TV has shrunk from a year earlier, supplanted by more time spent watching video on the Internet, game consoles, and mobile phones.
  • As Intel proved, the easy part was creating a new technology to deliver television with a user interface that beats cable and satellite. Test versions of OnCue have been deployed in Intel employees' homes for months. The hard part is content. Be it TV shows, sports programs, or live events, content is expensive to produce and it's expensive to license.
Carri Bugbee

Facebook Toys With Twitter-Style Feed Order For Posts About Real-Time Events | TechCrunch - 0 views

  • It’s internally testing “Chronological By Actor,” a new way to display updates about live events so they appear in order from most recent to oldest, surrounded by feed posts ranked by its traditional relevance-sorting. It’s not ready yet, but the algorithm test denotes Facebook’s keen interest in stealing Twitter’s real-time social media crown.
  • It revealed it would start publicizing News Feed algorithm changes in blog posts, as well as two changes that have already been rolled out: “Story Bumping,” which bumps stories you haven’t seen yet to the top of the feed, and “Last Actor,” which shows you more feed stories about the people you’ve recently interacted with or viewed the profile of.
  • If you want up-to-the-second information about what’s transpiring in a sports event or breaking news story, Twitter wins. Y
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  • Twitter works best when you’re glued to it in the moment, whereas Facebook excels at giving you the most interesting retrospective of what happened while you were gone.
  • Facebook came up with the idea for Chronological By Actor — a way to create a hybrid feed that integrates both relevance and real-time sorting.
  • The only problem is that Facebook said its tests of Chronological By Actor actually reduced Likes, comments, and other signals it uses to gauge News Feed success. That’s why the algorithm change hasn’t been rolled out like Story Bumping and Last Actor.
Carri Bugbee

Dunkin' Donuts Wants to Combine Twitter Passion With TV Spots | Adweek - 0 views

  • Dunkin’ Donuts today is launching TV spots called #MyDunkin, featuring the brand’s passionate Twitter fans.
  • We’ve found in the last few years that letting consumers talk about Dunkin’ is far more powerful than any brand message we could put out.
  • You can use the mobile app to find a local Dunkin’ and receive geo-targeted offers. The mobile offers change as you go from market to market while using push notifications for location-based targeting.
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  • Look at our relationship with [mobile-social maps app] Waze. We’re intrigued with the social components of Waze where people tweet about local street traffic and Dunkin’ Donuts espresso.
Carri Bugbee

Third of millennials watch mostly online video or no broadcast TV | Poynter. - 0 views

  • Thirty-four percent of millennials surveyed watch mostly online video or no broadcast television, new research from The New York Times says.
  • Users reported spending the most time with funny videos, movie clips, music videos and then news.
  • And 59 percent said they’ll likely watch pre-roll ads if they know they won’t have to wait long for their content.
Carri Bugbee

Netflix - 0 views

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    This puts paid to the intellectual's favorite idea that TV creates "anomie" and "alienation," that it isolates Americans from one another. Wrong. Americans may watch TV alone, but they do so to access a set of shared topics. And not just shared topics but shared languages. We talked to a mother and teenage daughter, people who have a contested relationship of the kind common to adolescence, people who sometimes have difficulty finding one another in conversation. (There are several identity issues at issue, especially "you're not the boss of me.") But when watching the new TV, and characters you can conjure with, certain conversations become possible. Topics once impossible now flourish. Shows were increasing cognition in viewers. In the place of single story line, TV narratives were taking on new complexity. Some shows were even engaging in virtually secret messaging. Only the most dedicated viewers could discover the intricate plotlines. Producers were actually making running gags more complicated and dramatic subtleties more embedded with the kno
Carri Bugbee

Nielsen adapts to track 'TV-free' homes - Business - CBC News - 0 views

  • Nielsen Co. started labelling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from 2 million in 2007
  • Unless broadcasters can adapt to modern platforms, their revenue from Zero TV viewers will be zero.
  • For the first time, TV ratings giant Nielsen took a close look at this category of viewer in its quarterly video report released in March. It plans to measure their viewing of new TV shows starting this fall, with an eye toward incorporating the results in the formula used to calculate ad rates.
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  • he Zero TV segment is increasingly important, because the number of people signing up for traditional TV service has slowed to a standstill in the U.S.
  • Zero TVers tend to be younger, single and without children.
  • Then there are the "cord-nevers," young people who move out on their own and never set up a landline phone connection or a TV subscription.
Carri Bugbee

Nielsen Agrees to Expand Definition of TV Viewing - 1 views

  • networks for years have complained that total viewing of their shows isn't being captured by traditional ratings measurements. This is a move to correct that.
  • decision to expand beyond traditional TV ratings measurement came out of a meeting in New York on Tuesday of the What Nielsen Measures Committee, a group that has been meeting for nearly a year.
  • By September 2013, when the next TV season begins, Nielsen expects to have in place new hardware and software tools in the nearly 23,000 TV homes it samples. Those measurement systems will capture viewership not just from the 75 percent of homes that rely on cable, satellite and over the air broadcasts but also viewing via devices that deliver video from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon, from so-called over-the-top services and from TV enabled game systems like the X-Box and PlayStation.
Carri Bugbee

Social TV tool Canvs scores content for social emotional reactions | Marketing Dive - 0 views

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    "Canvs is offering more than just typical social measurement such as like, follower and sentiment metrics. As its Turner partnership indicates, its partners get a constant feedback loop on how social media is reacting to content that can then inform new content creation designed specifically to get social engagement."
Carri Bugbee

MediaPost Publications At The ANA: Social TV Is 'New Media' 02/17/2012 - 0 views

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    Certainly, the Super Bowl reflected brand interest in turning TV into a mosaic of simultaneous marketing events on different screens designed to engage consumers with brands and with each other. Coca-Cola's polar bears were in the beverage giant's TV spots, but they were simultaneously online during the game, commenting on the game and, in a meta-commentary, on their own ad. Tom Cunniff, VP and director of interactive communications at Combe Incorporated, asked if such multi-screen programs risk splitting people's attention across devices. McHugh agreed that the risk exists, but said that, if the central idea is engaging, it only deepens engagement and attention. "We have seen it; consumers are already fragmenting their attention. What social TV does is to bring the experience to life so we can capture consumer attention more." She argued that if the story is good and engaging, it will involve consumers, no matter how many screens are telling it.
Carri Bugbee

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

  • 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

Pay-TV Operators Gear Up for Internet TV Invasion - 0 views

  • Apple TV is reportedly developing ad-skipping technology so owners of a set-top box can watch shows commercial-free. The propsed deal with cable companies would reimburse programmers for skipped ads.
  • Google is really just hoping to beat Apple to the punch, despite the fact that the company already has its Apple TV streaming product on the market, according to The New York Times "Apple’s thinking… is that any next-generation television service must be set up in partnership with existing distributors, in part for quality assurance reasons. A future Apple service could include a user-friendly interface layered on top of Time Warner Cable or Cablevision’s channel lineup."
  • Adoption from the major networks is "very unlikely to support any service with their linear feed that allows for commercial messages to be skipped even if they get some form of compensation," Rino Scanzoni, chief investment officer for WPP's GroupM, told AdAge. "This is not a viable economic model and subscribers to the system would not pay an adequate premium to compensate for it." 
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  • However, Forbes points out the longer-term effect. “Cable companies get paid for the ads that consumers are no longer watching. Since ad rates are determined by eyeball counts, those rates will decline as more viewers opted-out, so cable companies will need to figure out new ways to make money.” 
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Social media driving repeat views but fails to draw new audiences | Rapid TV News - 0 views

  • The Talking Social TV study revealed that infrequent viewers are mainly influenced by off-line word-of-mouth, which can be five to ten times as effective as social media in reaching these potential viewers. Conversely, TV show promos were found potentially to be a distraction for regular viewers, repeaters in the nomenclature.
  • Fundamentally the CRE believed that demographics play a more important role than programme genre in explaining the role of social media on TV viewing. By genre, social media was found to play a stronger role for genres such as reality, sports and talk shows.
  • The survey also showed that for repeaters, the first encounters with offline word-of-mouth, or a one-to-one electronic communication such as an email or text, or a social-media communication, are related to higher viewing, while subsequent communications can have diminishing returns
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