Connected TV: The lucrative second screen

Connectivity creates the opportunity for TVs to take on some of the capabilities of the PC. But what do people actually want to use connected TVs for? Mindshare's work with its online research community, the Hive, has shown that the fundamental role of TV is likely to remain the same.

Connected TV: The lucrative second screen

Jeremy PounderMindshare

Social media, off-screen shopping and companion TV content will be viewed not through a connected TV set but a portable second screen device, and that is where the new advertising opportunities lie.

The promise of convergence has been a long time coming. As long ago as 1989, Nicholas Negroponte of Mit Medialab predicted that "by the year 2000, you're going to have a very hard time telling me whether your TV set is a computer or a TV". While most people would still say fairly confidently that their TV set is...

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