Points mean Festival prizes

 

You’ve heard of Live Aid, Live 8 and Live Earth but have you heard of the Global Citizen Festival?

CEO of the Global Poverty Project, Hugh Evans was planning his latest charitable music festival when he decided to add a Social Media twist to the ticketing. The aim of the festival is to bring attention to the US Leaders and all world leaders the devastating effects of poverty around the world. The festival will help support charities such as Rotary International, Earth Institute, US Fund for UNICEF and Malaria No More.

Evans decided that with normal ticketing system would end engagement after money was transferred, so he came up with a cunning plan. Rather than simply paying for a ticket potential attendees had to gain a certain number of points by Tweeting, Facebooking and using other social media to advertise the festival and the cause it’s fighting against. Once participants have gained enough points they become entered in a draw and, fingers crossed, win tickets to the festival!

The lucky winners of tickets will get to see Neil Young, Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters and the Black Keys live at the event in Central Park.

Mollie Goodfellow, Content Writer

@socialmediaf

www.socialmediafrontiers.com

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Is there still space for MySpace?

As you may have heard MySpace was taken over 15 months ago by a company called Specific Media and we are finally getting a glimpse of what they have in store.

Incase you’ve forgotten, MySpace is one of the original social media websites that reached fame back in 2006. MySpace’s niche was that it tapped into the musical community, with music artists from all over the world create profiles and uploading their music and demos.

Alongside Specific Media, Justin Timberlake is set to help bring back MySpace. The singer/actor/entrepreneur, known ironically for playing Sean Parker in The Social Network, has an ownership stake of MySpace and is helping to reinvent the site. It was Timberlake himself who tweeted a sneak peek of the new look site.

Whilst the preview video didn’t give too much away, we did found out these few changes:

• You will be able to link your MySpace to your Facebook and Twitter by logging in using these accounts. This includes bringing over content such as photos and videos that you already have on these sites and putting them on your new MySpace page.
• The music aspect of the MySpace page is going to be bigger – with better ways to browse tracks, videos, popular artists and up and coming artists.

So, is MySpace set for a huge comeback or do you think it’s time has come and gone? Is this going to be a new way musicians communicate? Let us know in the comments below.

Mollie Goodfellow, Content Writer

@socialmediaf

www.socialmediafrontiers.com

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Twitter debuts TV Series premiere

For the first time ever a television series is launching it’s premiere strictly on social media site Twitter.

Fox’s Raising Hope, a comedy about the Chance family raising baby Hope (Do you see what they did there?) has decided to launch it’s first episode of the new series from it’s official Twitter page. Links are attached to promotional tweets for the page giving viewers a chance to be introduced to the new series.

This is a first for both Twitter and TV shows. Whilst there have been sneak peeks of new shows, trailers and adverts, never has a full length screening of the show been shared solely on the site.

The episode is available to watch on Twitter from Sept 21st to 27th with the series continuing on the more traditional TV screen on Oct 2nd.

So, what do you think about this development? Is showing TV on Twitter a good thing or will it lead to the eventual demise of television, leaving TV redundant because everyone can watch on their Twitter profiles or Facebook pages? Let us know in the comments below.

Mollie Goodfellow, Content Writer

@socialmediaf

www.socialmediafrontiers.com

(Source: http://mashable.com/2012/09/25/tv-premiere-twitter/)

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Twitter Power at the Emmy Awards

Sunday saw the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards hit America, and it didn’t fail to entertain. Jimmy Kimmel and Tracy Morgan decided to play a prank and tell audiences that Morgan had passed out on the stage.

In a bid to draw in more viewers to the awards, shown on on ABC, comedian Jimmy Kimmel told the audience already watching to tweet: "Tracy Morgan just passed out on stage the Emmys. Turn ABC on now.".Kimmel then brought on actor Tracy Morgan, known for his role on 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live. Morgan then proceeded to lie on the floor for atleast 10 minutes, even during the award for Best Writing for a Drama.

Soon enough ‘OMG Tracy Morgan’ was trending worldwide. The prank seemed to work and over 25,000 tweets were generated by Kimmel and Morgan’s plan.

So this just goes to show how quickly news can spread from TV to Social Media. Twitter really is a live forum for people to discuss what they see on their screens (TV, not computer). Next time a TV show with a big fanbase is being shown, for example Downton Abbey or Breaking Bad, have a look at what’s trending. I’d be surprised if there weren’t TV related trends happening somewhere in the world.

Mollie Goodfellow, Content Writer

@socialmediaf

wwww.socialmediafrontiers.com

(Sources: http://mashable.com/2012/09/23/emmys-tracy-morgan-25000-tweets/; http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57518602-10391698/emmys-2012-jimmy-kimmel-prank-makes-tracy-morgan-pass-out-on-emmy-stage/)