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Twitter Debuts App For OTT TV

  • by Gavin O'Malley  @mp_gavin, September 14, 2016

If average users won’t come to Twitter, then Twitter will come to them.

That seems to be the reasoning behind the social giant’s decision to launch a new Twitter app for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Microsoft's Xbox One.

The free app features all of the live-streaming video that Twitter has recently been adding to its network. Additional offerings will include popular and trending Tweets, Vines, and Periscopes.

Consumers don’t need a Twitter account to view any of the app's offerings -- a move that is obviously designed to encourage greater engagement.

For Twitter, the new app is part of a bigger video strategy to reinvigorate its relationship with users and brand marketers.   

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Just this week, Twitter partnered with news startup Cheddar to live stream content. This summer, Twitter launched a live-video stream of ESPN’s Wimbledon coverage and reached a deal to live-stream several Bloomberg TV shows, including "Bloomberg West," "What’d You Miss?" and "With All Due Respect."

Earlier in the year, Twitter won the digital rights to NFL games on Thursday Night. Per the deal, Twitter gets to stream 10 Thursday Night football games while they are simultaneously shown on NBC, CBS and the NFL.

The National Basketball League also recently announced plans to double the number of game highlights it posts to Twitter, Periscope, and Vine. Of note, the highlights include ads -- the revenue from which the NBA and Twitter will share.

Otherwise, advertising has been scarce on Twitter’s Live video page -- but analysts say that is sure to change. “We expect direct monetization to follow,” Nitesh Patel, a director at Strategy Analytics, noted in a recent report.

Worldwide revenue from mobile video will reach $25 billion by 2021, according to the Strategy Analytics report. The money is mostly coming from advertisers trying to reach a growing mobile-video audience.

Despite the promise of live video, Twitter continues to struggle.

Recently, data emerged showing that ad agencies are increasingly bypassing the platform in favor other social networks -- Instagram especially. That might explain why the company recently slashed its second-quarter revenue guidance to $590 million from $610 million -- nowhere near analyst expectations of $678 million.

Worse yet, eMarketer recently released a forecast suggesting that Snapchat will overtake Twitter in terms of domestic users, before the end of the year.

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  1. brian ring from ring digital llc, September 15, 2016 at 5:09 p.m.

    This is the first-ever 10 foot UX displaying Interactive TV on a large scale. Everyone needs to take a peek at the actual App on Fire TV. 

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  2. Brian Nakamoto from Tightrope Interactive, Inc. replied, September 16, 2016 at 1:53 p.m.

    Brian, is the Twitter app on Fire TV interactive? Twitter for tvOS has an option to watch the game and #TNF feed side-by-side, but I don't think it let me (interactively) tweet from it. I also think they could've done a better job utilizing the widescreen real estate.

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