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Why should you hire us? Who are ‘we’?

At Agora Media, we are the builders of Appmarket.tv… we are curators of a fair chunk of market intelligence – we truly have a firm grasp on the emerging landscape. And this space will be an important one in the future. We know many key players and have a divergent network representing media from all sides of the convergence.

Read why here:

TV Applications and Widgets Market Worth over €1 Billion Euro by 2013
One Billion TV Apps Downloaded by 2015: GigaOM Analyst Michael Wolf

And we have built Social TV already – back in 2007, with the Twinners Platform which piloted on SuperRTL, RTL, SBS and TV Copenhagen in Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium. We are open source evangelists, and have built, designed, managed and led communities online as well as commissioning and been part of scores of applications and widget builds online. We have have concepted new formats around both augmented reality and social TV.

Who are we? A collective of like-minded folks – a strong network per se’ – who share the same passion for innovation, creativity and building cool things for TV, The Web and Mobile Devices.

Just as social networking reshaped the online landscape I feel the same will come for television. The convergence of TV, internet and social media is an awesome model and we are right in the middle of it.

Forty years ago, the brilliant Canadian media theorist Marshall Mcluhan, the “patron saint” of Wired magazine, (who brought us Electronic Interdependence, The Global Village and The Medium is the Massage) metaphorically considered the TV to be an ‘electronic’ hearth – a collective centralized event for the family on the cusp of it’s appearance in the home 50 years ago. By the end of the millenium, TV’s peppered houses and became a more individual experience. In the USA, the average house now has 2.24 TV’s and 66 per cent of households have three or more TV’s.

It’s clear that TV is about to become social again (says Forbes, The NYT, The BBC) and the Wall St. Journal) But who, what, when, where, why, how and how much? The questions have yet to be answered. Will the TV continue to evolve as an individual device in a new ‘TV Everywhere’ world? And just become part of a matrix of interactive devices available to each individual? We think it will and can do a lot of things.

Contact here.

Here’s what I have written recently:

Google Vice President: Online Video and TV will Converge

Social TV and The Hotel Industry – Natural Synergy

Intel and Connected TV: Not Just a Chip Maker – But Rather a Visionary… in the Emerging Convergent Media Landscape

Comcast And thePlatform Announce New Offerings For A Wider Range Of Popular Over-The-Top (OTT) Services And IP-Connected Set-Top Boxes, TVs And Blu-Ray Players.

Ooyala Expands Online Video Analytics Reporting – Will They Go For IPTV and Connected TV?

Euro Startup TVLinks Aims for Significant EPG and TV Search Market Share via Emerging Google TV and Android Applications

Italian Fastweb Introduces Innovative TV ad Formats on Fastweb IPTV Platform

SonicPlayer Announces Platform for Delivering Live Mobile TV on Apple iPhone, iPad and Google Android devices

ITV Live Hits A Million Interactions with Two Screen Social TV Solution

Convergent Media Causing Shakeup at Channel 4 in UK – Broadcaster Restructuring for the Future

Betfair TV Releases First TV Widget for Gambling in Deal with Samsung