In the past few months, I’ve posted several blogs that contain lists and graphs of the biggest and most important players in the Social TV sphere. A notable exception in all these lists has been Facebook, which has been surprisingly quiet so far. Aside from touting “frictionless sharing” on platforms such as Hulu and [...]
Funny how the Social TV space attracts all types of investors – from movie stars (Ashton Kutcher) and sports celebrities (Marc Cuban) to Silicon Valley smart money (Kleiner Perkins) and the expected media giants. After having reviewed VC funding in a previous post, below is my take on the most interesting Social TV activity [...]
We’re flooded with news in the Social TV space – but most of it is noise. Separating the wheat from the chaff, here is my selection of interesting news from the week of April 30, 2012, and why: Gary Lauder and Mark Cuban Invest in Flingo Both angels have a track record of smart investments. [...]
We received more information about yet more funding activity following our latest blog about Social TV funding (Social TV: Who’s Funding Who?). Below is a table updating deals in that space. Overall, the deals are still small in size – as articles in All Things Digital and Lost Remote pointed out. But the flurry of activity and [...]
Momentum is building in the Social TV space; several startups have raised rounds from corporate investors, VCs and angels. The entertainment world and the investment community are both waking up to what promises to be the biggest shift in media since the VCR was introduced. Below is a list of companies who have recently been [...]
I attended and spoke at various Social TV-oriented conferences in the past few weeks, such as the Future of Media Conference at Stanford and TV Next in Boston. One thing is very clear: the Social TV ecosystem is both increasingly complex and fast moving. Every time I attend a conference, I run into yet more new [...]
One more indication that the world of TV is in massive reset mode: the all-powerful Nielsen ratings are being flushed out as the standard by which all TV audiences are measured. New modes of measuring are taking TV data crunching and analysis to new heights and scale, soon leaving Nielsen ratings in the dust. [...]
How Twitter is Surfing the Social TV Wave Social TV has finally reached the stage where it’s no longer on the fringe of the conversation and Twitter has taken a key role in integrating Social Media and TV. While Facebook is still testing timelines, tickers, music integration, etc., Twitter has set its sights clearly on [...]
An interesting development in the Social TV sphere came last week from the UK when London-based Social TV startup zeebox announced that it received a large investment from UK satellite TV broadcaster BSkyB. The Social TV platform developed by zeebox allows users of “companion screens” (tablets, smartphones, etc.) to see who else is watching TV [...]
It’s interesting to see how Facebook discussions and Twitter chats are spinning off all sorts of related secondary activities. For example, the growing buzz around TV programs has spun off an entire ecosystem of data analytics companies that track what people are watching on TV and how. Trendrr, Bluefin Labs, and Netbase are all doing that, [...]
