31 Dec
Posted by: Holly Liu in: General Musings, Stats, TVLoop, Television
2008 was a year of ups and downs for TV land. It started off down with a Writer’s Strike that started in 2007 and lasted into 2008. During that time Lost gained new fans, while other shows were introduced.TV fans across the living rooms breathed a sigh of relief when the Writer’s Strike ended and [...]
30 Dec
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: Stats, TV Networks, Television
The second season premiere of Flight of the Conchords, the quirky HBO comedy series, is scheduled to air on January 18. But over 250,000 fans have already watched it on FunnyOrDie, the comedy site led by Will Farrell and Adam McKay according to NewTeeVee. That compares favorably to the 100,000 or so fans that watched [...]
27 Dec
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: Advertising, Case Study, Social Media, Stats
The challenges facing the online advertising industry have been well documented across the blogosphere as well as traditional media. I’ve touched on the subject a few times in recent posts here and here. Most recently, Keith Rabois, VP of Strategy and Business Development at Slide, wrote a great post at Venture Beat discussing the merits [...]
22 Dec
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: Social Media, Stats, TVLoop, Television, Video
Friends is the first TV show to eclipse the one million mark on on the TVLoop community which comprises the top 5 social networks and the TVLoop.com destination website. The total number of friends fans is 1,019,581 to be exact which put it #1 in the community with The Simpsons following a close second [...]
James Hibberd from The Hollywood Reporter posted today on The Live Feed blog about a soon-to-be-released Deloitte study that says young people are watching less TV these days. From the post:
Young Americans just aren’t watching TV like they used to.
Put another way, the older you get, the more you watch, according to a report due [...]
