Don’t twitter away the news
What is social media’s relationship to TV news? That’s the question we pose in the latest issue of Euromedia, which you can read here as a digital magazine. Is it…
Netflix switches on Facebook
Netflix has revealed a new feature that allows subscribers to let their Facebook friends know what television shows and movies they are watching and also see friends’ viewing activity. Netflix…
Top Gear second screen app
When the new series of Top Gear UK returns to TV screens on BBC channels across the world next month – just days after UK transmission – a new second-screen…
Walmart Entertainment Facebook app
US supermarket chain Walmart is launching a new Facebook app that will give users access to exclusive movie content and the power to influence and shape what movies are sold…
4 in 10 use social apps whilst watching TV
According to research from The Diffusion Group, 38 per cent of US. adult broadband users currently participate in “social TV” activity at least a couple times per year. Social TV…
Discovery launches on Facebook and YouTube
Discovery Networks International has announced the launch of its first ever global Facebook page as well as a dedicated YouTube channel for its new landmark series: How We Invented The…
AT&T brings Facebook to TV screens
AT&T U-verse subscribers in the US can now connect with Facebook through their TV screen using ‘Facebook on TV’, the latest interactive app available from AT&T. The app enables users…
Deloitte: The rise and rise of ‘second screening’
The rise of ‘second screening’ – the use of other screens, such as laptops, smartphones and tablets while watching TV – is a source of excitement and concern for many…
American Idol show on Facebook
The producers of American Idol will release their new reality TV series on Facebook; the first television show to air on the social network and a cable channel at the…
78% of US following Olympics on TV or Digitally
Nearly eight-in-ten (78 per cent) of Americans say they have watched or followed Olympic coverage either on television, online or on social networks according to The Pew Research Centre. Television…
NBC, Facebook Olympic tie
Facebook users will be reminded about NBC’s coverage of the Olympic Games in London, and viewers of NBC’s coverage will be nudged to talk about the Games on Facebook. It…
The Facebook Post Worth $779 Million
Netflix shares jumped 20.6 per cent this past week after a July 3rd Facebook post by company founder and CEO Reed Hastings congratulating chief content officer Ted Sarandos and his…
C4 ‘4Seven’ channel chosen by Facebook
Channel 4 will launch a new TV channel called 4Seven next month screening repeats of the programmes viewers and critics have most talked about from the previous seven days, prefaced…
Yes, Facebook was Muppet bait
So, a few days in and Facebook shares have fallen almost 20 per cent from their bloated debut. It now emerges that Morgan Stanley, lead book runner on the IPO,…
Facebook: The future or muppet bait?
None of the scepticism surrounding the Nasdaq IPO of Facebook, including mine, has diluted the market’s enthusiasm and now the price range has been lifted – valuing the business at…