Sports Made the Most Second Screen Noise in 2014
By Chris Tribbey Early on in 2014 a second screen theme became apparent: if you’re broadcasting a major sporting event, laptops, smartphones and tablets are not only part of the equation, they’re a...
View ArticleCBS’s DeBevoise: The Time was Right for OTT
By Chris Tribbey When CBS debuted its digital subscription service CBS All Access in mid-October, the news came at the same time HBO announced a similar offering that same week (with HBO’s product yet...
View Article‘Defiance’ Showrunner Talks Second Screen
Kevin Murphy, executive producer, showrunner and co-creator of the SyFy Channel series “Defiance,” discussed the importance of the second screen world during a keynote discussion at the 2nd Screen...
View ArticleMCNS Come of Age
By Alan Wolk Once dismissed as the domain of cute kittens and sneezing pandas, online video is coming into its own, and 2015 promises to be the year it leaves its childhood behind and becomes, if not...
View ArticleBroadband TV Conference: Content Democratization Changing TV
By Chris Tribbey Service operators, content owners, OTT providers and other industry stakeholders will converge in Los Angeles March 3-4 to tackle the changing face of television at the sixth annual...
View ArticleWatchwith CEO: In-Program Offers New Opportunities
By Chris Tribbey Zane Vella, CEO of San Francisco-based Watchwith, sees 2015 as a potentially transformative year when it comes to how TV is consumed on digital devices. With digital devices more and...
View Article2nd Screen and the Super Bowl
By Alan Wolk Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend and 2nd screen promises to be a major part of it. Facebook and Twitter both have Super Bowl home pages set up to aggregate incoming content from fans and...
View ArticleRight On Target at The Grammy’s
By Alan Wolk One of the topics I’ve been most interested in lately is how the television industry is going to replace the revenue typically brought in by interruptive advertising. This is going to...
View ArticleIs Twitter TV’s Best Promotional Vehicle?
By Alan Wolk Twitter’s decision to allow third party sites to run tweets as native advertising may be the best news the television industry has gotten in quite a while. It means that they’ll be able to...
View ArticleAxwave: Technology with Mobile First in Mind
By Chris Tribbey Palo Alto, Calif.-based Axwave Inc. has a simple mission: allow mobile app developers to gather more data about audiences and increase user engagement, and allow marketers to reach...
View ArticleReady For Its Close-Up: How 2nd Screen Is Going To Transform The Oscars
By Alan Wolk With the Oscars fast approaching, it’s interesting to think about what the show might look like once Twitter’s new third party ad system in place. That’s the newly announced system whereby...
View ArticleLots Of Potential: How 2nd Screen Will Transform Next Year’s Oscars
By Alan Wolk This year’s Oscars was a dud on many levels, or maybe it just seemed that way after last year, when the energy level was high, Ellen was ordering pizzas and taking selfies and it wasn’t...
View ArticleAxwave Hits Europe
By Chris Tribbey Second screen content recognition company Axwave has expanded its offerings to cover the European market, the company announced Feb. 26, allowing app developers to have mobile devices...
View ArticleThe Pictures Get Even Smaller: Video Stars Take On The Movie Industry
By Alan Wolk I spent the day at BBTVCON, moderating a panel on 2nd Screen (more about that later) and attending the fascinating opening keynote by Awesomeness TV’s Chief Digital Officer, Kelly Day We...
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Meerkat Is The New, New Thing
By Alan Wolk Ever since Twitter “broke” at SXSW in 2007, industry observers have been looking for the new new thing, the technology that they can say “I was there first” about. There haven’t been many...
View ArticleMeerkat Is The New, New Thing
By Alan Wolk Ever since Twitter “broke” at SXSW in 2007, industry observers have been looking for the new new thing, the technology that they can say “I was there first” about. There haven’t been many...
View ArticleA Vue To A Kill
By Alan Wolk Like Dish’s Sling TV and Apple’s rumored new Apple TV package, Sony Vue, which launched this week in several cities, is not going to destroy the television industry. Sorry haters. Vue is...
View ArticleIntroducing Whipclip, Your New Favorite 2nd Screen App
By Alan Wolk While the industry may still be salivating over livestreaming in general and Meerkat in particular, a new app called Whipclip may well steal the thunder away from them. Designed to allow...
View ArticleSecond Screen Experts Talk Sports at NAB
By Chris Tribbey As chief architect of media for Akamai, William Law has seen it all when it comes to handling sports video. The Super Bowl, the Olympics, the NCAA Tournament, the World Cup, all have...
View ArticleA Digital Disconnect
By Chris Tribbey We may be living in a digital age, but you wouldn’t know it when it comes to how consumers spend their entertainment dollars. The rise of all these over the top video services is in...
View ArticleDigital Hollywood Panelists Talk Importance of Social, TV Everywhere
By Chris Tribbey MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — After the season finale of the ABC reality series “The Quest” aired in September last year, something interesting happened, according to the show’s executive...
View ArticleAmbrozic: A TV Subscriber Disconnect
By Chris Tribbey The price of a pay TV subscription continues to rise, as does the number of available channels and shows available to subscribers. Which makes recommendations and search all the more...
View ArticleVerizon Opts Into AOL
By Paul Sweeting Verizon is the largest wireless service provider in the U.S. with over 108 million retail connections as of the first quarter of 2015. But as the wireless business matures, providing...
View ArticleYouTube and Twitch Channel Cable TV
By Paul Sweeting With the upcoming launch of YouTube Gaming, YouTube will have dedicated apps for its three most popular categories of videos: music (Music Key), kids (YouTube Kids) and now video...
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Syfy Partners with Watchwith for LG Smart TVs
By Chris Tribbey During the heyday of physical disc, part of the reason it was so popular was the addition of bonus content. And though streaming, OTT, VOD and digital sellthrough are becoming bigger...
View ArticleConsumer Data Takes Center Stage at ‘2nd Screen Summit: Sports’ Event in New...
By Chris Tribbey The sports fans’ second screen experience — and how their data can be best utilized — will be tackled July 28 in New York when the 2nd Screen Society (S3) and Sports Video Group (SVG)...
View ArticleSocial Media a Boon and a Challenge for Sports Leagues and Broadcasters
By Paul Sweeting NEW YORK—As with most parts of the media and entertainment business, social media has become an important source of incremental revenue for sports leagues and teams. But according to...
View ArticleMichael Wolff to Keynote HITS Broadcast IT Summit at NAB/CCW in NY, Nov. 11
NEW YORK — HITS, the media & entertainment IT association, will host its Second Annual HITS Broadcast IT Summit, at the NAB/CCW Convention at Jacob Javits Convention Center on November 11. The...
View ArticleBob Lefsetz Added as Keynote to THE (Transforming Home Entertainment) Summit...
Outspoken music and media blogger Bob Lefsetz will be joining the stage as a keynote speaker during THE Summit on September 24th from 1 – 6 p.m. at the Luxe Sunset Blvd. Hotel in Los Angeles. In his...
View ArticlePwC: Cord Cutting to Pick Up in 2016
By Chris Tribbey Today, nearly 80% of Americans still subscribe to some sort of traditional pay TV service. But the increasing availability of digital alternatives to cable and satellite could result...
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