• WSBTV COX CMG's WSBTV iPad Weather App
      The WSBTV iPad weather app is designed with a unique carousel navigation gallery where can quickly access local weather information at home, work or on the go 24-hours a day. When severe weather approaches, the app provides audible alerts and live streams coverage from WSBTV’s meteorologists reaching from Midtown Atlanta to Hartsfield -Jackson International Airport. Not a southerner? Have no fear, the app also includes multi-city forecasting to keep users alerted to severe …
  • MUSIC: SHAZAM, Shazam, The Shazam App
     Shazam, one of the top ten most downloaded iPhone apps of all time, is accurately named for its magical powers. This simple app can provide the song title and artist name as well as album and history, just by holding the phone near the speakers. After a search, Shazam produces links for the user to purchase and download into iTunes. Shazam is accurate, quick, and …
  • MUSIC: JAM, DreamWalk Interactive, Jam for iPhone
     Ever dream of becoming a rock star? Your dreams can now come true with the Jam for iPhone app. This app allows anyone to sing into the microphone and turn their voice into an original musical masterpiece. After picking a genre, tempo, and speed, the app adjusts the voice recording to the tune of the genre you picked. Within a week of launching, …
  • MUSIC: Mibblio, Mibblio, Mibblio
    Mibblio turns your iPad into a library of musical stories. This app is designed perfectly for children, encouraging them to learn, read, and sing along to the Mibblets. The illustrations are captivating and bright and the music is uplifting and cheerful. The stories are accompanied by a musical rainbow keyboard and various interactive instruments so the child to play along …
  • Television/Video, Shazam, The Shazam App
    When Shazam first arrived, it was used almost exclusively to identify "that song" - you know, the one that you heard in the bar but couldn't quite place, at least not until you Shazam'd it for quick identification. Give its creators credit, then, for its unexpected evolution into one of the few apps that truly enhances a second-screen experience. Shazam has proven a worthy TV companion, not to mention a marketer's dream: Shazam-enabled campaigns allow consumers to self-identify as interested in a given product or service, and …
  • Television/Video, Turner Sponsor Shops, Team Coco App
     Any number of apps allow TV viewers to access expanded or enhanced content from a program or event they're watching. The genius of the Team Coco app lies in its specificity: it allows Conan O'Brien fans to drill deep, deep down into every episode of the show. As opposed to limiting its interactivity to live viewers, the app syncs with both live and DVR viewing. Plus the bonus content transcends cutting-room fodder, ranging from commentaries and rehearsal footage to the expected engagement tchotchkes (trivia questions). There's also content created specifically for …
  • Television/Video, SnagFilms Inc,. SnagFilms App for iPhone and iPad
     For film viewers, it's tough to identify a more indispensible app than SnagFilms' offering. The SnagFilms library contains around 1,700 films and documentaries, nearly all of which have an indie bent. While that's a huge load of content, the app renders it easy to manage, with an intuitive search function and a host of navigable categories. The viewing experience is similarly user-friendly, automatically saving the place for viewers who need to pause mid-film. Too, they can pick up watching on a device different from the one on which they started.
  • Sports, National Hockey League, NHL GameCenter
     The NHL's GameCenter app recently faced a threat that hit at the very core of its being: an absence of games, courtesy of a lockout that delayed the start of the NHL season. But when the games resumed, GameCenter again proved a must-have companion for hockey fans. In addition to the expected features - stats and real-time scores - the app includes live-game simulation (complete with shift changes) and a wealth of on-demand video highlights. Both the regular and premium versions of the app are customizable by team.
  • Sports, ACTIVE Network, Meet Mobile
     Even as we entered the digital age, swim meets remained largely an analog operation, one that employed the same set of organizational tools that it did back in 1982. That changed with ACTIVE Network's Meet Mobile app, which eases and automates the planning process for meet hosts, coaches, fans and swimmers themselves. The app similarly renders the meet-day experience far more simple that it used to be. Participants can check Meet Mobile for heat and lane assignments, while coaches can use its tracking tools to ensure their swimmers are in …
  • Sports, BBC, BBC Olympics app
     While NBC trumpeted its on-demand-always-everywhere coverage of the Olympics as the place to be during last summer's games, anyone who viewed the bulk of the festivities overseas knew that the BBC app provided a superior experience. Via 24 live streams, it captured every moment of every event - 2,500 hours of coverage in sum - and added, for good measure, network feeds from BBC One and BBC Three. The BBC app also offered a wealth of supplementary materials, everything from dynamically generated info pages for each competing country and athlete to daily commentaries …
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