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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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UPDATED: ‘Watched’ And ‘Want To Watch,’ Prompts On Mobile Are A Bug

Justin Lafferty — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:00:25 +0000

Facebook is expanding its options on mobile with regard to letting users post about media they want to experience — but the site recently told AllFacebook that a recent discovery is a bug. Previously, a user could click on a book that a friend posted about through a sponsored story and say that they’ve read or want to read. Sister site Inside Facebook discovered that now, iOS users (we haven’t seen this for Android yet) can tap sponsored stories about a show or movie to indicate that they have watched or want to watch. Facebook said that this is a bug and that advertisers would not be charged for clicks.

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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 COO Sheryl Sandberg: Mobile Can Be A More Important Medium Than TV

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:57:40 +0000

Facebook earlier this month launched Home, which essentially makes Facebook the platform on selected Android phones. The move was an important one in Facebook’s goal to become more influential on mobile. The company’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, told reporters in London Monday that mobile could be a more important advertising medium than television.

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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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REPORT: Primetime For TV Is Also Primetime For Facebook, Other Social Networks, Gaming

David Cohen — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:07:14 +0000

Primetime for television is the same as primetime for Facebook and other social networks, both via mobile devices and desktop computers, according to a new report from Arbitron Mobile Oy.

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Facebook Begins Rolling Out New, Customizable Timeline

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:44:32 +0000

The redesign for Timeline has been tested in New Zealand and other parts of the world, but Facebook announced Wednesday that it will start officially rolling out the new look to select users immediately. Much like Facebook’s updated News Feed, the goal for Timeline is to reduce clutter and place more options in the hands of users. The new design has about content and open graph actions on the left side of the page, with posts on the right side.

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Facebook Adds Open Graph Actions Such As Run, Quote, Want To Watch

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:03:22 +0000

Facebook has been experimenting with ways that allow users to be more expressive — such as structured status updates and more info in the “about” section. The social network Friday announced new open graph actions that let people tell a little more about what they’ve done through Facebook-connected applications.

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Facebook Tests New About Design For Users With Upgraded Timelines

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:35:21 +0000

Facebook has been releasing several small aesthetic changes this week to news feed, but it is also testing some changes on timeline — for the select few who have the newest version. The social network has revamped the “about,” section, giving users more options and allowing them to name shows and movies that they’d want to watch in the future.

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Facebook Testing More Open Graph Actions

David Cohen — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:21:18 +0000

Facebook is testing a host of new open graph actions for content involving subjects like books, movies, and television, including “rate,” “quote,” “wants to read,” and “wants to watch,” developer Tom Waddington pointed out to sister blog Inside Facebook.

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