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TV, video streaming, at a turning point - Business - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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  • Whether you watch TV via cable, Internet, or rabbit-ear antenna, you’ll see the same thing — a massive industry-wide upheaval, as new technologies and business models reshape what we view, and how we view it. “The television industry is in transformation,” said independent media analyst Jeffrey Kagan. “This entire space is going to be a completely different space in five years.”
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TV x Twitter: New findings for advertisers and networks - 0 views

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  • Carri Bugbee on 08 Feb 14
     
    1. #hashtags in TV ads drive positive brand conversation. To analyze the impact of hashtags in TV ads on Twitter earned media, we studied more than 500 television commercials in the consumer electronics category. We analyzed over 63,000 comments in response to those ads, across more than 100,000 television airings. We found that hashtags drive significantly more earned media for brands. TV ads with hashtags had 42% more Tweets about the ads than those without hashtags. 2. Twitter keeps viewers tuned in to advertising. 3. Twitter makes TV ads more effective.
  • Carri Bugbee on 30 Apr 14
     
    People love to watch TV with Twitter. During recent events like #SuperBowlXLVII with over 24.9M Tweets about the game and halftime, or last season's finale of "Pretty Little Liars" with a record-breaking 1.9M Tweets (as measured by Nielsen's SocialGuide) it's clear that TV and Twitter are better together.
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The Social-TV Connection That's Redefining Content Partnerships Online | ClickZ - 0 views

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  • This strategy is sure to appeal to Millennials, a key audience for TV networks and social sites alike, but its logic runs deeper than chasing a behavioral trend. Blending TV with social media is like converting a stage play into improv. When content producers take direction from the audience, the results are dynamic and customized.
  • This phenomenon has particular import for the producers of content that has a long lead time and only airs once a week. In order to sustain its relevance, producers must ensure it appears current. That means supplementing TV shows with fresher, more frequent material that lives online, and inviting viewers to take part in its distribution.
  • Similarly, BuzzFeed introduced a program earlier this month called Social Tune In that aims to bridge the gap between online content and the TV screen. In collaboration with AMC Networks' comedy channel IFC, BuzzFeed has created BuzzFeed Blocks that are airing on Saturday nights.
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Twitter Ad Strategy: Team Up With TV Content Creators - Businessweek - 0 views

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  • Twitter is specifically about what is happening right now,” says Ron Amram, senior media director of Heineken USA, adding that Amplify has become Twitter’s most promising ad tool. “To allow a brand to have real-time ownership of a video that says, ‘This is what you need to know right now’ is pretty powerful.”
  • To attract more social media attention, “marketers are taking moments that would have been talked about at the water cooler and are allowing them to unfold live,” says Adam Bain, Twitter’s president of global revenue.
  • A division of 30 employees works with media companies to ensure that networks and their actors tweet during broadcasts and that Twitter hashtags and user names appear on the screen
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  • We are trying to make it feel like the television is magically beaming the clip down to your phone,” says Glenn Otis Brown, the senior director who heads Amplify and a former YouTube executive.
  • “What makes it work best is that it builds on our main screen,” says Jeff Lucas, the head of sales, music, and entertainment at Viacom Media Networks. “Consumers, particularly millennials, don’t want to miss out on a conversation,
  • The company wouldn’t say how it’s divvying up the Amplify ad revenue, but the media rights holders are taking the majority cut
  • “People can’t get enough video,” says Tom Bedecarre, chairman of digital advertising firm AKQA. “But if it’s not just any video, if Twitter has gone and cherry-picked all the best moments from cable networks, sports leagues, and all the top content owners, then they are going to have amazing content that people want.”
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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
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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.
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Twitter Offers TV Audiences Without TV Advertising | Digital - Advertising Age - 0 views

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  • Twitter introduced "TV conversation targeting" in the U.S. and the U.K. today, which lets marketers show ads to people who are tweeting about a given show before, during and after it runs
  • It will be available in Twitter's self-serve ad tool, not just to bigger brands with a direct-sales relationship.
  • Up until now, Twitter's pitch has been about extending marketers' TV buys. "Already buying TV? Make those ads work harder with Twitter," the pitch goes. But with the new tool, Twitter advertisers can buy viewers of a show whether they're also buying ads on TV or not.
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  • not everyone can afford a TV ad, and this new option may be aimed at the have-nots
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Twittervision: Twitter Taps Video Via Amplify, TV Ad Targeting, Vine | Variety - 0 views

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  • . In keeping with the company’s emphasis on being the go-to platform to collectively share experiences in real time, Costolo hinted, at a recent appearance at the Brookings Institute in Washington D.C., that Twitter is testing a feature that would allow users to essentially “replay” live events and pinpoint peak moments that can be viewed if missed the first time around.
  • Yet another form of video that will be coming to more and more Twitter feeds is TV Ad Targeting, a clever tool the company took out of beta last week that identifies someone who tweets about a show as likely to have just seen a commercial, and streams to them an accompanying digital promotion.
  • Twitter is also looking a lot like a venue for programming: Several innovative new episodic shortform series have used Twitter as a distribution platform in recent months.
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  • “What it tells me is that Twitter is going to be a player in video distribution,” said Erik Flannigan, executive VP of multiplatform strategy and development at Viacom Entertainment Group
  • For Twitter, the advertising opportunity has come in an area that skeptics early on thought was inviolate territory: inside the stream of tweets from each user’s followers.
  • While Twitter has always been an effective springboard for TV, the platform previously strictly sent users to the TV set or to a link in another browser or app via retweet. That changed in June 2012, with the introduction of Twitter Cards, which essentially expanded a space once restricted to 140 characters to accommodate anything from a still photo to a video player — all without leaving Twitter.
  • For Twitter, Cards also paved the way for Amplify. Twitter first tested the initiative with ESPN last December during telecasts of BCS college football games. Thirty-second game highlights were targeted at sports fans in the Twittersphere just moments after they occurred in real time as a means of drawing more viewers from that segment of the audience most interested in the content, as well as to retain those already watching.
  • Twitter began bringing together other networks and advertisers for Amplify campaigns, including Turner Broadcasting with AT&T and Coke Zero for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament; and with Sprint, Taco Bell and Sony Pictures for NBA postseason games.
  • To wit, BBC America used Amplify for the season premiere of “Top Gear,” seeding Twitter with all sorts of video extras synched to the show’s airing but not available in the broadcast itself.
  • Having introduced TV Ad Targeting in beta mode in May, last week Twitter touted engagement metrics that should help encourage more advertisers to sign on. Among the first brands to experiment included Jaguar, Samsung and Holiday Inn.
  • Video can be intertwined with photos and text. It’s not entirely different from the model of so-called alternative reality games, but it is rooted on the social network instead of an array of websites. “I call it ‘disembodied media,’ ” said Mark Ghuneim, founder and CEO of social media tracking service Trendrr. “It’s a disembodied TV show taking place in disparate parts, times, and sources. It’s crazy in a great way.”
  • Interactive or participatory TV has been on the margins of the business for so long that it seems like it’s never going to happen. But Twitter may be just the soil where a long-delayed germination could actually take root. Let’s not forget that the average member of any audience has a device in their pocket capable of transmitting quality video — how can that not disrupt the traditional understanding of what programming is?
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Tech's geek boy blind spot is killing good ideas | News | TechRadar - 0 views

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  • While brogrammers are brogramming away to suit themselves, they're actually strangling their own chances of success. And looked at like that, it really should be obvious that the appalling record of the tech sector in attracting, employing and retaining women is one that the industry should be looking to remedy urgently and for the basest financial motives.
  • geek boy groupthink is a prison. It keeps women locked out, and that's one way in which it's disastrous. It also keeps tech firms sealed in, trapped by an idea of their audience as fundamentally like their nerdy selves which stops them from coming up with any number of good new ideas - good ideas that consumers like you and me would fall over themselves to use if only someone would invent them.
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New Data Surrounding Twitter, TV, and Brand Messaging - 0 views

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  • 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%).
  • Carri Bugbee on 17 Apr 14
     
    related news, a recent study conducted by MarketShare suggests that TV ads are more effective when paired with paid Twitter advertising than without.
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The Amplified Experience is Critical to Media Relevance -- Graeme Hutton - Graeme Hutto... - 0 views

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  • The Advertising Platform Formerly Known as Mass Media Advertising communications channels have always offered their audiences a value exchange. For instance, TV provides entertainment experiences in return for advertising and indirectly a cable fee, magazines present an edited cornucopia of material on a selected topic in return for a cover price and advertising.
  • Social media and digital advertising are currently testing the limits of their value exchanges by expecting consumers to provide specific information about themselves or their behaviors, which the digital properties can subsequently leverage in targeted advertising.
  • now younger consumers’ growing sense of entitlement gained in the digital world (where information was often offered at low or zero cost) is shifting across all channels. We only have to look at the emergence of TV cable cord-cutters or the growth of services such as Bit Torrent for evidence of this. Bit Torrent has increased its audience by over +70% in the last two years to a monthly audience of 23 million users.
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  • If a media channel doesn’t offer an enhanced array of fresh new experiences to reinforce its value exchange, it will be potentially regarded as spam. The only way mass media can respond to this is either by a) reducing their direct costs to consumers or the advertising load or b) increasing the depth and variety of experiences.
  • ad clutter appears to undermine TV effectiveness by up to -25% compared to digital video alternatives.
  • All media that fail to offer an enhanced value exchange will soon become spam.
  • Mass media are based on old models of communication. If anyone still doubts this, they only have to look at the aggregate declining audiences and revenues of magazines, newspapers and radio over the last ten years. Television’s threat comes in the form of its ageing process. In the last quarter of 2008, the average age of the TV broadcast primetime viewer was 49, in the same quarter last year it was 51. About 50% of TV viewing is now among the over 50s.
  • Carri Bugbee on 17 Apr 14
     
    All media that fail to offer an enhanced value exchange will soon become spam.
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Broadcast Television's Screens Are Alive | TVNewsCheck.com - 0 views

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  • “For movies and retailers, time-shifting can be a concern,” says Starcom’s Bowe. “That is why live TV is interesting to a lot of TV advertisers. Advertisers are demanding immediacy. Amassing an audience on a particular night is important.” Combating ad skipping empowered by the DVR is a bigger issue for TV stations than it is for network TV.
  • Advertisers typically buy local TV using Nielsen’s live-only or live-plus-same-day program ratings. Network TV is bought on C3 commercial ratings, which includes live viewing and three days of DVR playback. That means local TV advertisers pay for viewers who fast-forward through their commercials.
  • Live TV and social media were made for each other. In 2013, 36 million people in the United States sent 990 million Tweets about TV shows they were watching live, according to Nielsen SocialGuide. Moreover, 84% of people who have smartphones or computer tablets use those devices while watching TV.
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  • During the Super Bowl in February, Twitter was on fire. The game and its commercials generated some 1.8 billion tweets that were seen by 15.3 million Twitter users. The esurance spot prompted the most Twitter chatter, with 1.2 million Twitter users posting nearly 1.9 million messages about it.
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Apps For Mobile Viewing Challenge Cable Operators, TV Networks | Fox Business - 0 views

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  • 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.
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Americans watching more video, but TV declines among most active online consumers | Poy... - 0 views

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  • total TV viewership increased 22 minutes per month, per person over last year. However, TV watching has declined among people who watch the most online video. This behavior is led by 18- to 34-year olds, but it may hint at future consumption patterns.
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