woensdag 18 april 2012
Winner special contest
The lucky winner of last month's special contest has been determined. Congratulations Jeske Bleeker! You win a film voucher of 10 Euros, redeemable at every movie theater in The Netherlands. Congratulations!
woensdag 4 april 2012
#Winning
The interaction with viewers and fans via Social Media is booming buisiness in TV-land. Especially talent shows like The Winner Is make use of Facebook, Hyves and Twitter to enable viewers to feel connected to the show and the contestants.
The nation's ice skating pride Sven Kramer must have liked this concept. He held a contest via his Facebook and Twitter accounts. His fans were asked to predict Kramers 5km time at the World Distance Championships in Thialf, Heerenveen. An awesome reward was reserved for the winners, something worth winning for any single one of Sven Kramers fans: A real Sven Kramer skating suit! The winner on Facebook wins a TVM suit, while the Twitter winner receives a KPN suit.
The nation's ice skating pride Sven Kramer must have liked this concept. He held a contest via his Facebook and Twitter accounts. His fans were asked to predict Kramers 5km time at the World Distance Championships in Thialf, Heerenveen. An awesome reward was reserved for the winners, something worth winning for any single one of Sven Kramers fans: A real Sven Kramer skating suit! The winner on Facebook wins a TVM suit, while the Twitter winner receives a KPN suit.
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Sven Kramer,
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donderdag 29 maart 2012
Special contest: Win a film voucher
To celebrate our two month anniversary, Social Media TV is
organizing a special competition. The price? A film voucher of 10 Euros, redeemable
at every movie theater in The Netherlands! You can enter the competition by
answering the following 9 questions. The answers can be found in the blogs we
have posted up until now.
Send your answers to uvtbit@gmail.com, along with your name, address and postal code. The contest ends at April 12, so make sure you've submitted your answers by then. The winner will be announced in the following week. Good luck!
- What was the title of the first blogpost on this site?
- Name 2 programs that participated in the RTL-Tweetweek.
- What was the name of the girl that Noel Deelen was looking for in the Valentine’s Day episode of RamBam?
- When will Tenacious D’s new album be released?
- Which local TV-Station was responsible for Fijnfisjenie during Carnaval?
- What type of sandwich did Chuck fans buy at Subway during the show’s second season finale?
- What was the name of the film that Woody Harrelson tried to plug on Reddit?
- Which television channel created the official Tumblr-pages for Doctor Who and Top Gear?
- Name 1 hashtag that fans on Twitter used in order to save Community.
Send your answers to uvtbit@gmail.com, along with your name, address and postal code. The contest ends at April 12, so make sure you've submitted your answers by then. The winner will be announced in the following week. Good luck!
maandag 26 maart 2012
Tenacious D (aka The Greatest Rock Band in the World) returns with a new mini-movie
No, this is not just a Tribute. The D is back. Six years
after the cult rock comedy The Pick of Destiny hit the theaters, Jack Black and
Kyle Gass are releasing a new album, called Rize of the Fenix, in May. And to
promote it, they released a six-minute-long mini-movie on Youtube, obviously
hoping that the powers of social media make it a viral success.
woensdag 21 maart 2012
Subway: Savior of tv-shows?
In recent years it has become difficult to watch television
without seeing a certain brand pop up somewhere. Product placement is a much
used marketing technique since the ‘90s, and television functions as a perfect
medium for it. Not only because every new episode provides new possibilities
for product placement, but also because television shows are practically always
looking for ways to expand their limited production budgets. But some companies
go further than a mere casual shot of their product. They get incorporated into
the show itself.
The brand that is most notable for this kind of advertising
is Subway. The restaurant franchise was a pretty big sponsor of the beloved but
criminally low-rated series Chuck, so their sandwiches appeared frequently, as
you might expect. What’s more unusual is that the Subway slogan was actually mentioned by the characters. This is a pretty big commitment on the part of the Chuck
production team, since too obvious product placement might alienate viewers. In
this case however, it proved to be hugely successful, for Subway as well as
Chuck.
woensdag 14 maart 2012
Community returns: A social media success
The wait is almost over. March 15 marks the return of the
beloved sitcom Community, aka the show with that extremely passionate fanbase. It
had been put on indefinite hiatus back in November, so the last few months have
been excrutiatingly painful for the loyal fans. But there worries have turned into
joy, as NBC will start airing episodes come tomorrow. We like to think the
various social media campaigns to save Community from cancellation played at
least a small part in that.
Labels:
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Cool Cool Cool,
goatees,
hashtags,
Jeff Winger,
Jon Defreest,
march 15,
nbc,
occupy greendale,
posters,
returns,
Sarah Mulligan,
save community,
six seasons and a movie,
trailer,
twitter
woensdag 7 maart 2012
Tumblr: Passionate about television
When you’re a big fan of a tv-show, it is very easy to
become obsessed with it. When combined with designing skills this can lead to
all kinds of awesome fan art. Take this incredible Game of Thrones fan poster
for example. Tumblr is a site that largely thrives on these graphics made by passionate
fandoms.
Tumblr is a microblogging platform where people can post (self-generated)
content, or reblog things they see on other blogs. Usually these things are graphics
of some kind, animated gif’s mostly. Users can follow blogs, which causes its
content to appear directly on their dashboard. When following enough blogs,
this makes for a fast, continuous stream of new images.
Labels:
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blogs,
community,
communitythings,
doctor who,
donald glover,
fan-made,
fandom,
fans,
game of thrones,
gifs,
graphics,
hbo,
microblogging,
microblogs,
nbc,
poster,
top gear,
troy barnes,
tumblr
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