Tag Archives: tv

Quick Hits: July 8

@EarlyBird to offer Twitter users “promoted deals”

Bargain hounds on Twitter are now able to follow the official @EarlyBird handle for relevant, timely offers and deals from Twitter’s advertisers. Twitter will partner with select advertisers to give followers of the account the inside scoop on limited-time or –quantity offers. It remains to be seen whether branded accounts that rely on offering last-minute deals (like JetBlue’s Cheeps, for instance) will be affected, since…

Quick Hits: May 21

NBC Turns Television Into a Social Media Game

Fan It is an interesting new initiative by NBC that aims to tie social networking directly into its programming. In combination with myNBC, NBC’s online fan community, the program rewards users who converse around and promote – through Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and Foursquare integration – NBC shows. This kind of social integration into television should provide new…

Social Networks Become Social Entertainment

Originally posted on The Naked Pheasant.

This morning we hosted a Social Entertainment breakfast where we launched the findings of Edelman’s fourth annual Trust in the Entertainment Industry survey.

Gail Becker, President of Edelman’s Western region, presented the results and was joined on a panel by Matt Locke – Acting Head of Crossplatform at Channel 4,