Social Studios Unveils “你的节目” – Turns Your 脸谱网 新闻feed into a TV Show Hosted by Actress 和 生产商, 诺亚Tishby
Announces $700,000 in seed funding; adds Joanna Drake Earl to Board of Directors
洛杉矶,加州.(2013年2月26日)
社交工作室(www.socialstudios.tv)今天揭晓。你的节目”, a new beta 脸谱网 app which automatically produces a fun, personal daily TV show from your 脸谱网 newsfeed. Hollywood actress 和 producer, 诺亚Tishby, is an advisor to Social Studios 和 host of 你的节目. Social Studios also announced today that it has raised $700,000 in seed funding to-date, 和 that Joanna Drake Earl, who formerly held COO positions at ngmoco:) 和 Current TV, has joined its board of directors.
Recognizing how time-consuming it can be for people to scroll through their social newsfeed to find posts they really want from their friends 和 br和 pages they “like”, Social Studios’ founders drew on their TV 和 Internet backgrounds to bring social media to life in an entirely new way.
“你的节目 is like ‘Entertainment Tonight’ meets 脸谱网”, said Anat Amibar, CEO, Social Studios. “It’s a show starring you 和 your friends, produced from your 脸谱网 feed,” she said. “T在这里’s a brewing fight for domination on the big screen in the living room 和 social media companies, 包括脸谱网, 推特和LinkedIn, have not yet delivered a compelling video experience. We aim to solve this by creating the first ever social media TV shows,” said Amibar.
它是如何工作的
你的节目 takes your 脸谱网 newsfeed 和 produces a fun, personal TV show that includes items like Top Videos, Top Status Awards 和 birthdays. By looking at things like location check-ins 和 tags on photographs, Social Studios’ algorithms can determine which posts people will care most about based on who they spend time with in real life 和 on 脸谱网. Each show is a few minutes long 和 completely personal, bringing 脸谱网 pages to life for a new “lean-back” experience.
“As a producer 和 an actress, I always keep my eye on the next wave of innovation,诺亚·蒂什比说, Social Studios’ advisor 和 host of 你的节目. “The Social Studios team has created a br和 new way to enjoy 脸谱网 using a TV-like format. 在我看来, this is just the beginning of a new kind of reality TV 和 I’m excited to be a part of it,蒂什比说.
Join our public beta by using Google Chrome 和 clicking 在这里: http://apps.Facebook.com/yourshow.
Watch Social Studios’ CEO, Anat Amibar, give a demo of 你的节目 在这里.
关于Social Studios:
Social Studios was founded by TV 和 Internet executives who have worked at companies including Google/YouTube 和 Yahoo!. Realizing that social media platforms have yet to deliver a TV experience viewers want to watch, they saw an opportunity to produce engaging, personalized TV shows from social media newsfeeds. Social Studio’s first show, a 脸谱网 app called 你的节目, quickly identifies posts from your close friends 和 favorite br和 pages 和 automatically turns them into a show starring you 和 your friends. 这是第一次, the fun daily TV show is presented by 诺亚Tishby, well-known actress 和 Hollywood producer. To-date, Social Studios has raised $700,000 in angel funding. For more 信息 visit: http://www.socialstudios.tv 或者跟随我们 脸谱网 和 推特, @socialstudiostv.