Archive for February, 2010

Twitter Becomes the World's Biggest Couch During Major TV Events

Written by admin | Posted on: February 27th, 2010

In the latest Media Decoder post at the New York Times, Brian Stelter used the tweets and comments of prominent figures to illustrate how viewers discuss and consume media via the social web.

Included within the piece was our own CEO, Mark Ghuneim, who wrote “The Convergence of The Live Web and Television” and whose work was featured prominently within the piece:

“With the live web now achieving critical mass, it is making TV interactive in ways not previously predicted,” he wrote. “The early Interactive TV scenarios had viewers predicting the outcome or changing plot lines, hitting little buttons on their remotes etc., but what has happened is much different. We are conversing around the TV screen and interacting with each other.” [via]

Some other great quotes from the piece:

@acarvin paraphrased another user, @joecascio, to say that ‘Twitter becomes the world’s biggest couch during major TV events.’”

@junethomas said that the “smartphone effect” should not be forgotten. ‘While watching TV I’m usually tweeting, e-mailing and checking Facebook on my iPhone,” she wrote.’”

“‘I do the two-screen tango quite often,’ the user @michaeltapp

Check out the rest at Water-Cooler Talk About the Water-Cooler Effect.

Livestreaming Fashion Shows and Twitter Conversation

Written by admin | Posted on: February 26th, 2010

Blogs and social media have been major topics of concern in the fashion world these days:  Articles about the democratization of accessibility to fashion week have popped up everywhere from the New York Times to the lowliest style blogs, and last week’s NYFW was cluttered with blogger and new media conferences.  Industry backlash has been strong: Derek Blasberg has been quoted saying he sheds a tear for the end of fashion week, and traditional editors and bloggers continue to battle it out for coveted front-row seats at the hottest shows.  Many labels fret that the internet dilutes their brand integrity and corrupts its exclusivity — yet others embrace it.

We tracked a handful of NYFW designers, from established ones like Marc Jacobs to up-and-coming ones like Doo.Ri.  All designers tracked follow a similar curve: a spike around the day of their show, followed by a gradual tapering as coverage and commentary occurs and then peters off.  (Max Azria spikes twice, presumably for the respective BCBG and Herve Leger shows.)  Yet by a huge majority, Twitter conversation was dedicated to designers who livestreamed their fashion shows and embraced their fanbase (rather than the media elite, celebrities, and other fashion insiders) by inviting them to watch, comment, and participate.

Rodarte and Alexander Wang – both very new and young designers – livestreamed their runway shows at ShowStudio.com, a conceptual digital fashion destination from photographer Nick Knight, who is known for his ideas about the digital future of the fashion industry.  And New York staple Marc Jacobs also embraced incorporating his fans into the live event of his fashion show, with a Four Square contest for tickets as well as a livestream.  We think the graph below speaks for itself:

TechCrunch Covers Trendrr's Real-Time Dashboard

Written by admin | Posted on: February 24th, 2010

Our Trendrr real-time dashboard has been unveiled and already it is receiving great buzz from the likes of TechCrunch. Leena Rao wrote up a fantastic piece detailing the unveiling of Trendrr’s “entertainment-focused dashboard” which allows film and television industries to garner actionable intelligence to determine future content decisions.

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Check out TechCrunch’s take on the announcement and their walk-through, check out Trendrr Launches Web Charting Dashboard For Entertainment Industry

Smart Text for the Wired Set

Written by admin | Posted on: February 9th, 2010

Real-time Tools For Television and Film

As an agency of the future we have been releasing a suite of software services around digital and social media.   Our company was founded on the premise that technology and marketing / advertising are inseparable.   The two things working hand in hand will result in better user experiences and results for clients.   As a leading digital agency we lead by example.

Tools we’ve developed:

Trendrr: Measurement

Trendrr tracks data over-time and now in real-time, processing digital intelligence that identifies what is being shared and with what influence, velocity and volume in the participatory web. The diverse feature set allows users to track both qualitative and quantitative data sets and insights.

Beyond tracking the level of conversation, video views, press, blog coverage and social network activity, users can also create a lens into understanding sentiment, intent, influence, engagement and how these factors map against sales, consumption or location.

Driven by client needs, these tools help users understand the social activity around their brands, products and campaigns. Ultimately, bringing visibility and actionable intelligence helps clients grow business, awareness for their products / services and attention to their cause. We understand that every client has a unique measure for their return on investment. We provide a diverse set of tools that allow visibility into this measure no matter how a client defines success.

Recently, we have started to process this digital and social data in real-time. Real-time analytics provides a new set of important insights that allow optimization and improvement for a media-buy campaign attribution and performance.

Curatorr: Listening / Responding

Curation is a process of identification and organization of the real-time communication and information streams. The importance of deriving a signal from noise from the fire hose of conversation taking place via Twitter and the real-time web has never been more important. Curating the conversation brings a new value that can then be published on-air, online, in applications, etc.

Our product is called Curatorr, a dashboard that distills signal from the noise around your conversation.

Using Curatorr, users can:

    SEARCH: Search the real-time Twitter conversation as it’s happening online.
    FILTER: Filter the relevant conversation based on your filters, including keyword, location and sentiment.
    PUBLISH: Publish the curated stream to television, phone and internet.

Users setup a query to identify conversation around a topic. Curatorr then provides suggestions to make sure you have assembled a complete cluster of terms around a subject.

Users can then:

* Find tweets that include any of these words
* Find tweets that include all of these words
* Contains hash tag(s) – example: #tv
* Include list(s) – example: BBC/tv
* People referenced – example: @markghuneim
* Sentiment – example: positive, negative, neutral
* Location – example: within 15 miles of New York City

Users can also save searches which curates results for future use

This is just the begging of what will be an iterative process towards understanding what the highest value conversation is and how it fits into the context of programing, user experiences, customer social relationship management and brand listening.

Real-time Tools For Television and Film

Written by Mark Ghuneim | Posted on: February 8th, 2010

As an agency of the future we have been releasing a suite of software services around digital and social media.   Our company was founded on the premise that technology and marketing / advertising are inseparable.   The two things working hand in hand will result in better user experiences and results for clients.   As a leading digital agency we lead by example.

Tools we’ve developed:

Trendrr: Measurement

Trendrr tracks data over-time and now in real-time, processing digital intelligence that identifies what is being shared and with what influence, velocity and volume in the participatory web. The diverse feature set allows users to track both qualitative and quantitative data sets and insights.

Beyond tracking the level of conversation, video views, press, blog coverage and social network activity, users can also create a lens into understanding sentiment, intent, influence, engagement and how these factors map against sales, consumption or location.

Driven by client needs, these tools help users understand the social activity around their brands, products and campaigns. Ultimately, bringing visibility and actionable intelligence helps clients grow business, awareness for their products / services and attention to their cause. We understand that every client has a unique measure for their return on investment. We provide a diverse set of tools that allow visibility into this measure no matter how a client defines success.

Recently, we have started to process this digital and social data in real-time. Real-time analytics provides a new set of important insights that allow optimization and improvement for a media-buy campaign attribution and performance.

Curatorr: Listening / Responding

Curation is a process of identification and organization of the real-time communication and information streams. The importance of deriving a signal from noise from the fire hose of conversation taking place via Twitter and the real-time web has never been more important. Curating the conversation brings a new value that can then be published on-air, online, in applications, etc.

Our product is called Curatorr, a dashboard that distills signal from the noise around your conversation.

Using Curatorr, users can:

SEARCH: Search the real-time Twitter conversation as it’s happening online.

FILTER: Filter the relevant conversation based on your filters, including keyword, location and sentiment.

PUBLISH: Publish the curated stream to television, phone and internet.

Users setup a query to identify conversation around a topic. Curatorr then provides suggestions to make sure you have assembled a complete cluster of terms around a subject.

Users can then:

    * Find tweets that include any of these words
    * Find tweets that include all of these words
    * Contains hash tag(s) – example: #tv
    * Include list(s) – example: BBC/tv
    * People referenced – example: @markghuneim
    * Sentiment – example: positive, negative, neutral
    * Location – example: within 15 miles of New York City

Users can also save searches which curates results for future use

This is just the begging of what will be an iterative process towards understanding what the highest value conversation is and how it fits into the context of programing, user experiences, customer social relationship management and brand listening.


(posted by Mark)