Grammy Awards partner with CBS for digital experience

Posted by sheryl in Blog on February 6, 2012

This will be an interesting partnership. According to the article below one of the key issues is speed to delivering broadcast content online in a reasonable amount of time. And also keen to see how the two or three screen experience plays out.

via GigaOm – Grammy Awards partner with CBS for digital experience.

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Umami Companion App

Posted by sheryl in Trend Watching on November 8, 2011

Looks like the Companion App space is heating up. Startup Umami is launching today with a companion service for Nat Geo.  It does a similar audio syncing service as IntoNow, and integrates all sorts of social TV and companion info for a show.

http://www.lostremote.com/2011/11/07/companion-tv-app-umami-to-hit-app-store-tuesday/

 

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SXSWi: Panel – It’s not TV, it’s Social TV

Posted by sheryl in Conferences, IPTV, SXSWi on March 14, 2011

Session: Saturday 12th March Panelists

Chloe Sladden, Director of Media Partnerships at Twitter Fred Graver, Sr VP at The Travel Channel Gavin Purcell, Supervising Producer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Lila King, Participation Director at CNN.com Moderator: Timothy Shey, Pres/Co-Founder at Next New Networks

Watch the video via @Mashable Hashtag: #sxsocialtv

It was lucky

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Being in sync – extending the interactive TV experience

Posted by sheryl in Articles, Blog, IPTV, Musings, UX on January 30, 2011

Next week, the US’s ABC network will announce their latest version of their Sync iPad app – this time for the popular Grey’s Anatomy series. The Sync application is a joint exploration of ABC and Nielsen’s Media Sync platform, which detects and synchronises content using audio watermarks. They’d previously attempted a version of this with

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Checking in on Social TV

Posted by sheryl in Articles, Blog, IPTV, Musings, UX on January 27, 2011

With Google recently acquiring fflick for YouTube, a service that provides movie recommendations based upon other user’s Twitter feeds, I thought it timely to take a look at the speeding trend towards what is often referred to as “Social TV” – and one aspect in particular that plays a large role: Entertainment check-in and recommendations

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