social tv, forecasting and innovation
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Why didn’t we foresee the rise of social TV? Social TV is the biggest change in television since it was invented. Audiences are increasingly engaging with television via second screens (laptops, mobiles and tablets) and connected TV systems. This transforms medium and industry and gives social networks key commercial roles in the TV business. The rise of social TV raises a crucial issue for our understanding of forecasting and innovation: Why did we not foresee this major development in television? The Futurescape presentation Social TV, Forecasting and Innovation reveals how 1995 predictions about the future of TV missed social TV and proposes how such blind spots in forecasting can be remedied. The presentation covers Social TV: a synthesis of TV and social networking 1. Transforming the medium of TV 2. A radical shift in power for the TV industry 3. How does social TV power manifest itself? Forecasting and Innovation 4. The future of TV as seen from 1995 5. What we didn’t foresee in 1995 – social TV 6. Why didn’t we anticipate it? 7. Implications for forecasting and innovation For more insights into the future of social media and television, download our white paper How Connected Television Transforms The Business of TV (adapted from Futurescape’s strategy report, Social TV).TRANSCRIPT
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Social TV,
Forecasting
and Innovation
Why didn’t we foresee
the rise of social TV?
Colin Donald
Director
www.futurescape.tv
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Overview
Social TV: a synthesis of TV and social networking1. Transforming the medium of TV2. A radical shift in power for the TV industry3. How does social TV power manifest itself?
Forecasting and Innovation4. The future of TV as seen from 19955. What we didn’t foresee in 1995 – social TV6. Why didn’t we anticipate it?7. Implications for forecasting and innovation
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1. Social TV – transforming the medium of television
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The social TV revolution
• Social TV – the biggest change in television since it was invented
• Qualitatively different from improvements to TV: colour, satellite, HD, 3D – all forms of better TV
• Audiences engaging with television via second screens (eg laptops) and connected TV systems
• Transforms medium and industry• Gives social networks significant commercial
roles in the TV business• Why did we not foresee this major development?
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What is social TV?
• Enabling technologies + viewer behaviour have significant business impact on TV industry
• People talk 24/7 about television on Facebook and Twitter
• Discuss, criticise, recommend and share it
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Broadcasters embrace it
• BBC using on-air Twitter hashtags so people will discuss its shows
• Have I Got News For You
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Broadcasters embrace it
• The official Oscars hashtag
• Host James Franco actually tweeting during the live show
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Connected TVs enable social TV
• New connected TV sets and services are integrating social activity
• Twitter in a Sony Google TV
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Social TV in EPGs
• Social functionality integrated into set-top box middleware
• NDS prototype EPG lets you share your viewing via Facebook within EPG
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Social TV and online TV
• Similar integration with broadcasters’ online video players
• BBC iPlayer using Facebook and Twitter for viewers to recommend shows
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Social TV via pay-TV platforms
• Social TV increasingly available via cable, satellite and IPTV
• Facebook integration from American IPTV operator Verizon FiOS
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Social TV via consoles
• Social networking through game consoles
• No shortage of ways viewers can participate in new era of social TV
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How big is social TV?
• Facebook and Twitter user numbers comparable to biggest TV audiences
• Two-screen usage widespread
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• Claims 500m users globally – July 2010
• USA: 150m+ (30% of 500m)
• Compared to 2011 Super Bowl:
• Most-watched US TV broadcast ever
• 111m viewers (average home audience)
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• Claims 145m users globally (Sept 2010)
• Only 6% of US adult population use Twitter (Pew Internet study)
• 8% of US adult Internet users (Pew)
• Considerable potential for growth
• And for growing influence over television
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Two-screen usage
• Nearly three-quarters of US consumers multitask while watching TV
• 42% are online
• 29% talking on mobile phones or devices
• 26% sending instant messages or texting
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2. Social TV – a radical shiftin power for the TV industry
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Two-screen viewing andInternet TVs give social activity
considerable influence overthe television industry
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Social activity gives more power to the companies facilitating it
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Facebook and Twitter are now major players in global television
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Without makinga single programme
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Without broadcastinga single TV channel
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3. How does social TV power manifest itself?
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Impact on
• Viewing
• Distribution
• Production
• Revenue
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Impact on
• Viewing – people discussing shows can increase audience size and engagement
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Impact on
• Viewing – people discussing shows can increase audience size and engagement
• Distribution – social networks becoming alternative distribution to cable or satellite
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Impact on
• Viewing – people discussing shows can increase audience size and engagement
• Distribution – social networks becoming alternative distribution to cable or satellite
• Production – bringing the audience into the production process
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Impact on
• Viewing – people discussing shows can increase audience size and engagement
• Distribution – social networks becoming alternative distribution to cable or satellite
• Production – bringing the audience into the production process
• Revenue – social networks enable audience pay-to-participate
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Viewing: The Game
• BET launched new series of The Game, comedy-drama about football player
• Tapped into strong online fan base
• Twitter popular with African-Americans (25% of Twitter users vs 12% US pop)
• 600,000 Tweets during broadcast
• Second-most-watched show in BET’s 30-year history: 7.7m viewers
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Distribution: movies via Facebook
• Warner Bros deal with Facebook to rent movies to Facebook users, March 2011
• First title: The Dark Knight (no. 7 of all-time box-office grossers)
• Uses Facebook credits payment system
• Costs 30 credits ($3) for 48-hour access
• Successful trial – more titles added: Inception, Harry Potter
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Production: Goa Hippy Tribe
• Documentary on history of hippies in Goa
• Social media commission by Australian broadcaster SBS, with Screen Australia
• Filmmaker Darius Devas set up Facebook group to contact interviewees
• Group discussion gave him feedback
• Short video episodes released through the Facebook group page
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Revenue: X Factor voting
• X Factor in talks with Facebook
• Will use Facebook credits for paid voting
• Similar to phone voting
• X Factor to receive split of revenue
• To launch in time for autumn TV season
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Television can benefitfrom social networks
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However…
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Facebook CTO predicts
Social networks will disrupt media – just like gaming
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Facebook CTO predicts
“We haven't seen tons of other industries as impacted as games by Facebook, and we think that the next big change is seeing the next few industries being disrupted by social platforms in the same way gaming has been.”
“It's probably going to be orientated around media or news, because they are so social. When you watch a television show with your friend, it's such an engaging social activity.”
BBC interview with Facebook CTO Bret Taylor, 10 February 2011
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Facebook and Twitter can compete for ad revenue, too
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Withsocially-targeted
advertising
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Adidas World Cup video ad
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Why did we not foresee this social TV revolution in television?
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And what does this mean for forecasting and innovation?
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Forecasting and Innovation
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4. The future of TVas seen from 1995
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1995
• Netscape went public, sparking off the dotcom boom
• I was launching first Web sites for UK satellite TV channels
• A year when the new media future was actually taking shape
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Why the future seen from1995?
• Moving house, reshelving books
• This one caught my eye
• The future of TV
• From 1995
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Television at the Crossroads
• Authors were international design experts, working with young designers at Philips
• Speculative essays• Concept artwork• Prototype TV designs• Scenario photos of homes of the future
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Television at the Crossroads
• So what was the future of TV in 1995?
• Key essay
• Roadside Romance: TV Marries Computer on the Electronic Highway
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Four accurate predictions
1. The TV is a “telecomputer”• Processing power, network connectivity and
videoconferencing all built into the set
2. Viewers accessing video-on-demand and
networked multimedia (ie the Web)
3. Video production tools: prices fall, quality rises
4. Video production democratised• People will be producer-consumers or “prosumers”
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The TV is a “telecomputer”
• 2011 TV set full of silicon, particularly Google TV
• Internet connection will soon be standard feature for all flat screens
• And you can now buy a Skype videoconferencing TV from LG and Panasonic
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VOD and networked multimedia
• VOD is ubiquitous
• “Networked multimedia” is the Web
• 4oD in the Channel 4 Web site
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Cheap video toolsdemocratise production
• “Prosumers” taking on new role, as highly effective political activists in Middle East
• Libya: from smartphones to YouTube to broadcast TV
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5. What we didn’t foreseein 1995 – social TV
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What we didn’t foresee in 1995
An Internet social sphere
that is democratised –
and also thoroughly commercialised
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What we didn’t foresee in 1995
Massive social networking companies that affect the
entire TV value chain
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What we didn’t foresee in 1995
The emergence of social TV and its major implications for viewers and the TV industry
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What we didn’t foresee in 1995
And that much ofsocial TV has its rootsoutside the TV industry
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6. Why didn’t we anticipate it?
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The blind spot
• Innovation coming from outside the TV industry and combining three factors:
1. People’s needs – for self-expression and socialising2. Money – massive investment creating huge companies to meet those needs 3. Data – how the Internet enabled data to be integrated in so many novel ways
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People’s social needs
• Broadcasters did appreciate social needs
• TV Web sites I launched had forums
• Viewers talked to each other and to the channel
• Trouble TV site: mouth icon for forums
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People’s social needs
• But the main Internet social arena in 1995 was thoroughly non-commercial
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People’s social needs
• But the main Internet social arena in 1995 was thoroughly non-commercial
• Unclear if commercial social businesses could even succeed on the Internet
• AOL, CompuServe just launching Web access in 1995
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Money
• The major social innovation and aggregation came from outside television
• In successive generations of well-funded, fast-moving Internet start ups
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Data
• The Internet has enabled data to be integrated in many novel ways
• Including connected TV systems
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The future of social TV from 2011
• In 2011, we can’t easily see the long-term impact of social media integration with TV
• But key elements in shaping the future of social TV remain:– People’s social needs and behaviour– Internet start-ups– Innovation with data
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7. Implications forforecasting and innovation
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How can we generalise fromthe experience of forecasting
the future of TV?
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Forecasting and blind spots
• Focused on the future of television – but not how the TV industry might be disrupted in the future
• Focused on linear improvement – but the future always includes non-linear disruption
• Linear improvements did take place – HD TV
• But significant discontinuous change came from outside the TV industry – rise of social networks
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Remedies for blind spots
• Actively look for sources of discontinuous change and disruption
• Particularly external innovation – outside own sector / country / continent
• Engage in more cross-company / sector / country information exchange and innovation collaboration
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The future of television
• For more Futurescape analysis on the future of television and social media, see our white paper
• “How Connected Television Transforms the Business of TV”
www.futurescape.tv