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TV A Factor In Facebook’s Hashtag Rollout

David Cohen — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:48:32 +0000

Following Facebook’s introduction of clickable hashtags Wednesday, Justin Osofsky, the social network’s director of platform partnerships and operations, focused on how hashtags will factor into discussions about television shows in a note on the Facebook + Media page.

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Your Show App Presents Facebook Users’ News Feeds In TV Show Format

David Cohen — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:41:57 +0000

Facebook users who have imagined what their News Feeds would be like in the form of television shows may want to tune in Your Show, a new application from Social Studios TV that creates a daily TV show featuring content from users’ News Feeds.

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STUDY: Facebook More Effective In Driving Viewers To New Shows Than Existing Ones

David Cohen — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:18:27 +0000

The Council for Research Excellence became the latest group to attempt to define the relationship between television and Facebook and other social networks, finding that social media are more effective at driving viewership of new shows than existing ones.

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STUDY: Can Facebook Likes Show How Fit Or Obese You Are?

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:37:09 +0000

If you tend to like exercise- and activity-based Facebook pages, are you in shape? Conversely, do all of those likes of TV shows paint the picture of someone more obese? That’s what some researchers from Harvard University, Boston Children’s Hospital, and San Diego State University wanted to figure out. They took geographic data of Facebook likes, comparing them to obesity levels, finding that areas where more people liked TV shows on Facebook also tended to be areas with higher obesity rates.

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Google Chrome Extension Silencer Helps Facebook, Twitter Users Avoid Spoilers

David Cohen — Thu, 30 May 2013 15:56:25 +0000

Google Chrome users: Do you have Facebook friends that ignore your pleas to not reveal spoilers about your favorite television shows? Silencer may be worth investigating.

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Facebook Suggests Movies To Viewers, Asks, ‘Have You Seen This?’

David Cohen — Tue, 28 May 2013 11:21:28 +0000

Facebook is attempting to push its users to fill in the Timeline sections it recently introduced, offering suggestions in its various categories — movies, TV shows, and books — and asking users if they have watched or read those titles.

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STUDY: Facebook Users Who Like TV Show Pages 75 Percent More Likely To Watch

David Cohen — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:01:16 +0000

Facebook users who like the pages for television shows are 75 percent more likely to watch those shows, according to a recent study by media giant Viacom and its Viacom International Media Networks division.

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Dish Anywhere Adds Tighter Facebook Integration

David Cohen — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:38:06 +0000

Satellite-TV provider Dish Network introduced a revamped Dish Anywhere mobile application, including stronger ties to Facebook and Twitter.

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STUDY: Digital, TV Ads Drive Viewers To Brands’ Facebook Pages

David Cohen — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:04:51 +0000

Digital ads and television ads are the most effective in driving viewers to interact with brands’ presences on Facebook and other social networks, according to the results of a recent survey of 2,577 U.S. online adults aged 18 or older by Burst Media.

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Facebook Announces Global Rollout Of Sections On Timeline, Best Practices For App Developers

David Cohen — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:55:12 +0000

Facebook announced Tuesday that the application modules it introduced for Timeline in March have now been rolled out to all users, encouraging app developers in a post on its developer blog to incorporate these sections into their apps.

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Social TV: Facebook Vs. Twitter Vs. Tumblr

Will M — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:39:12 +0000

Facebook has a perception problem in social television, where Twitter is entertainment’s favorite platform.

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Visualizing Facebook’s Social Graph

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:47:21 +0000

It’s probably not surprising that when Facebook users are 21, most of their friends are also in that same age bracket. It’s also not a shocker to say that men talk about sports on Facebook more than women. But how do trends change over time? Do 30-year-olds tend to talk about health more than new high-school graduates? A highly visual set of data from Wolfram Alpha brings Facebook’s social graph to life, showing how people connect and relate to each other on the social network.

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How Does Facebook Affect TV Viewership?

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:08:11 +0000

Facebook has been pushing users to share more of what they love, especially through structured status updates. Users can now post visual stories that say they’re watching “Game of Thrones,” or “The Big Bang Theory,” and those preferences will be added to users’ Timelines under favorite shows. But does liking a show’s Facebook page necessarily correlate to watching it? In a recent study, CitizenNet discovered that a 3 percent increase in likes for a show’s page usually translates into a 1 percent bump in viewership.

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Facebook Reaches Deal For Rovi Video Data

David Cohen — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:56:29 +0000

Facebook is taking steps to make it easier for users with its new Timeline to add movies, TV shows, and celebrities they like to their profiles, reaching an agreement with Rovi to use data from its Rovi Video database.

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Facebook Product Manager Kate O’Neill Discusses Graph Search, New News Feed With WBZ-TV

David Cohen — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:27:34 +0000

Facebook Product Manager Kate O’Neill spoke with Boston CBS affiliate WBZ-TV about new and revamped features recently introduced by the social network, including Graph Search and its redesigned News Feed.

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