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By Alan Wolk I spent the day at BBTVCON, moderating a panel on 2nd Screen (more about that later) and attending the fascinating opening keynote by Awesomeness TV’s Chief Digital... More

By Chris Tribbey Second screen content recognition company Axwave has expanded its offerings to cover the European market, the company announced Feb. 26, allowing app developers t... More

By Alan Wolk This year’s Oscars was a dud on many levels, or maybe it just seemed that way after last year, when the energy level was high, Ellen was ordering pizzas and taking ... More

By Alan Wolk With the Oscars fast approaching, it’s interesting to think about what the show might look like once Twitter’s new third party ad system in place. That’s the ne... More

By Chris Tribbey Palo Alto, Calif.-based Axwave Inc. has a simple mission: allow mobile app developers to gather more data about audiences and increase user engagement, and allow ... More

By Alan Wolk Twitter’s decision to allow third party sites to run tweets as native advertising may be the best news the television industry has gotten in quite a while. It means... More

By Alan Wolk One of the topics I’ve been most interested in lately is how the television industry is going to replace the revenue typically brought in by interruptive advertisin... More

By Alan Wolk Super Bowl Sunday is this weekend and 2nd screen promises to be a major part of it. Facebook and Twitter both have Super Bowl home pages set up to aggregate incoming ... More

By Chris Tribbey Zane Vella, CEO of San Francisco-based Watchwith, sees 2015 as a potentially transformative year when it comes to how TV is consumed on digital devices. With dig... More

By Chris Tribbey Service operators, content owners, OTT providers and other industry stakeholders will converge in Los Angeles March 3-4 to tackle the changing face of television ... More

By Alan Wolk Once dismissed as the domain of cute kittens and sneezing pandas, online video is coming into its own, and 2015 promises to be the year it leaves its childhood behind... More

Kevin Murphy, executive producer, showrunner and co-creator of the SyFy Channel series “Defiance,” discussed the importance of the second screen world during a keynote discussi... More

By Chris Tribbey When CBS debuted its digital subscription service CBS All Access in mid-October, the news came at the same time HBO announced a similar offering that same week (w... More

By Chris Tribbey Early on in 2014 a second screen theme became apparent: if you’re broadcasting a major sporting event, laptops, smartphones and tablets are not only part of the... More

By Chris Tribbey The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has become the must-attend event for everyone in both the content and hardware industries, and the 2nd Screen So... More

From the 2nd Screen Society We’ve seen the future of the second screen and it’s all about the data. Data is going to be the currency that fuels the entertainment industry in t... More

Kevin Murphy, one of Hollywood’s top showrunners, will be delivering the keynote at this year’s 2nd Screen Summit at International CES. Murphy, who is executive producer of the... More

By Chris Tribbey Several members of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) and the 2nd Screen Society (S3) will be on hand Dec. 9 at the fifth annual East Coast TV... More

By Chris Tribbey Before the show floor opens at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the 2nd Screen Summit will once again lead things off Jan. 5 with a half-day eve... More

By Chris Tribbey It was just this summer that video discovery company Fanhattan got its Fan TV set-top box to market, partnering with Time Warner Cable to offer subscribers an all... More