Television in the New
Media Era
Jaime R. Riccio
Ph.D. Student
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication
Syracuse University
@Slaymer
Status Quo
Avg: ~20 hours per week
80% have cable

80% have internet access
<5% “zero TV” homes
>45% get TV online
Sources: Pew & Nielsen
Image from http://cmn4ward.wordpress.com/category/theory/
TV in the New Media Era
Agents of Change
Online/Mobile

Social

Laptop

Facebook

Smartphone

Twitter

Tablet

YouTube

Wearable tech

Vine
Tumblr
Instagram
Online/Mobile
Laptop
IBM 5100, 1975 – first portable computer
1983 – first “laptop” (Gavilian SC)

Advanced in the 1990s
Upgrades
Portability
Immediacy
Productivity
Smartphone
Global market share: 22%
1 in 5 people

Brands
Nokia – 1996
BlackBerry – 1999
iPhone – 2007

Source: Business Insider
Tablet
Global market share: 6%
1 in 17 people

Faster adoption than smartphones!
Brands
Microsoft Tablet PC – 2000
iPad – 2010
Kindle Fire – 2011

Source: Business Insider
The Future: Wearable
Smartwatches (Samsung Galaxy Gear)
Google Glass

Rapid adoption anticipated
64 mill. by 2017

TV on you?!

Source: Mobithinking
www.computerworld.com
Social
Facebook
Founded 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg
1.1 billion user worldwide
1 in 13 people

86% of YA in US
Desire for “connectivity”, “fun”, “escape”

Pages
Shows, networks, actors

Source: EBizMBA
Twitter
Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz
Stone, Noah Glass
500 million users worldwide
27% of YA in US

A primary use: News source
Heralded birth of “social TV”

Source: ComScore
Photo/Video
Tumblr – 2007 (David Karp)
Rich Kids of Instagram/Beverly Hills

Instagram – 2010 (Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger)
BravoTV

Vine – 2013 (Colin Kroll, Rus Yusupov, Dom Hoffman)
#TWD
Tosh.0
WHY?
Uses & Gratifications
Living with Change
News
Entertainment

Networks
Industry
Community
News
Citizen Journalism
And now, the news, brought to you by – YOU!
Jasmine Revolution & Arab Spring
Aided by social media
Most reports came from social media

iReporting
CNN

Streaming audience & reporter tweets
MSNBC
Instant Alerts
News consumers moving online
Twitter
CNN Breaking News
Virginia earthquake

Apps

Online stories & extras
Entertainment
Online Content
Networks providing shows
online
CW

Netflix, Hulu, etc.
Netflix Original
Programming

Web series
The Guild
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along
Blog

Social Media series
@SummerBreak

Online events
YouTube Music Awards
Mobile Viewing
Personalized Online
Netflix
Hulu
Amazon Prime

Personalized Apps
GetGlue
Fan

New phenomenon: “Binge viewing”
#SocialTV
Instant audience
feedback
95% of live TV convo is on
Twitter

Shows & ads now have
hashtags
Increases viewership

Interactive relationship
with audience
Toonami.tumblr.com

77% use computer while
watching TV
Multi-screen viewing
Story Sync (AMC)

TV Shows made just
for/from audience
feedback
Watch What Happens Live
(Bravo)
Talking Dead, Talking Bad
(AMC)
Sports
Cutting edge of social TV
Tweeting “pushed” in NFL & NBA athletes

Vine - #MondayNightFootball
Airing games on cell phones
NFL & Twitter deal to provide in-game highlights
ESPN & NBA already do (replays)
Gaming
AMC’s The Walking Dead
Social game (Facebook)
Interactive fan game
“Dead Yourself” app

Image from Mashable
Future of TV
Networks
2014: Half of all Americans watch TV online/mobile
Competition

Networks are moving online
Cable ahead of broadcast
Why?

YouTube channels
The CW

Webisodes
Teen Wolf's “Search for a Cure” (MTV)
Industry
Viewers influencing stories
From American Idol to “create-your-own-ending”

Programming catered to viewers needs/wants
TV 3.0?

Instant feedback
Ratings? Storylines? Girls

Nielsen
2010: “Cross-Platform Homes” usage
2013: Tallying tweets
2014: Counting mobile viewers in ratings

Networks need greater online presence
What does it mean for advertisers?
Advertisers
Product placement
30 Rock episode

Sponsorship
The Apprentice (“The
Pepsi Challenged”)

Branded
entertainment
Breyers “Smooth &
Dreamy”
BMW “The Hire”

Social TV analytics
How audiences react to
stimuli
Embedded ads

Twitter Amplify
Community
Digitization = Migration
Hundreds of channels, both on & offline

People brought together by TV “water cooler talk”
are now online
What is “Reality TV”?
TV stars become internet stars
Internet stars become TV stars
Dylan O’Brien, Felicia Day
Social Media Stars
How does this affect
YOU?
Television in the New
Media Era
Jaime R. Riccio
Ph.D. Student
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication
Syracuse University
@Slaymer

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  • #19: Changed gatekeeping practices (another commtehory).