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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Study: Social TV Alive and Well ]]></title>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jeff Baumgartner ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                        <dc:description><![CDATA[ null ]]></dc:description>
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                                <p>Though some platforms are performing better than others, social TV appears to be alive and well, according to a new survey of U.S. consumers by Ring Digital llc.</p><p>Some 23.9% of U.S. adult Internet users engaged in social TV behavior in the last month, meaning they have used a social platform to vote, post, share or otherwise comment on their TV-viewing activities, Ring Digital found in its Spring 2017 <em>Social TV Index</em> (registration required).</p><p>The study, Ring Digital’s sixth on the topic over a span of three years, found that there’s some room for growth, as 13% said they have thought about engaging in social TV behavior, while 62.9% said they have not, based on a sample size of 841.</p><p>Among individual platforms, Facebook (71.6%) was the most popular for TV-related social media actions, followed by YouTube (33.8%), Instagram (32%), Snapchat (29%), Twitter (23.5%), and Tumblr (7.1%). In an emailed summary of those findings, Ring Digital’s Brian Ring noted that social TV interaction via  YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat grew while “Twitter’s lead in Social TV seems to have vanished.”</p><p>By genre, news was the biggest driver of that social TV interaction, followed by dramas, which unseated sports.</p><p>The study also found that 21.7% of people who engaged in social TV said they used a hashtag they saw promoted in a television ad, with 6.6% saying they did so frequently.</p><p>The big two effects of social TV, the study found was that it helps TV shows to get discovered (36.7%), and increases the consumer’s enjoyment of TV (36.9%). A smaller group (16%) said social TV engagement increases their viewing of live TV, and 14.5% said it increases the amount of time they watch TV.</p><p>Keying on another emerging social networking strategy, almost 22% (of a sample size of 1,105) said they had viewed at least one live stream on a social platform.</p>
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