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(OR....HOW TO GET A $10,000 APP FOR TEN BUCKS*)

Maybe you've finished your film, mastered your album, or completed your non-linear graphic opus. Maybe you have fans you'd like to reward and cultivate. We're looking for digital content that showcases the next generation of multiscreen delivery, and every month we're giving away services to folks and organizations with the right story (we know it when we see it). Here's your chance to immortalize your masterpiece as a Metabeam multiscreen app.

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(*There is a $10 entry fee to cover the cost of reviewing submissions.)

Your content. Your vision. Your app.

Main Feature

  • Metabeam | Empower your audience

    Shine through the cloud. Give your fans a connected media app.

  • my.Metamenus | official companion apps for SAW, KICK-ASS, THE EXPENDABLES and more..

    Transform video & music into digital collectables. Promote sales and buzz.

  • Empower your audience with smart remote, gesture control & 2nd-screen programming.

    Empower your audience with smart remote, gesture control & 2nd-screen programming.

Now anyone can make apps that distribute audio and video to touch devices and connected televisions.

1. Kick your app into gear.

Upload your digital video, audio, images and stories. Use our easy web service to transform blog entries, web animations, CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays and YouTube channels—even other apps—into your new multiscreen app. Get started now >>

2. Get your app into shape.

Customize the look and feel of your app. Effortlessly integrate Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, or plug in advanced modules like premium content sales and conditional multiscreen access. Review online until you're satisfied, and you get the app you want. Current Users Login >>

3. Put your app on the line.

Distribute your app through Apple iTunes, Android Market and emerging app stores for connected televisions. Distribute the finished app yourself (aka "white label"), or partner with us and let us do a lot of the work for you. Learn more about becoming a content partner >>

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Keepin' it Fresh for the Robots

Submitted by Chris F. Brown on

I'm told by experts (who should know) that the key to building an online audience is to keep it fresh. Write every day, even if you have nothing to say.

Really..? I've got nothing to say, and I'm still supposed to write? Doesn't this break some fundamental rule...like, gee I don't know, Don't Waste Time....?

I'm not saying that blogging every day is a waste of time for everybody! Blogging every day is great advice if your business is blogging. But with all due and sincere respect to bloggers, this blogging business, well...it is just not my business.

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Looking Forward to 2nd 2nd Screen Conference, and Backward to the 1st

Submitted by Chris F. Brown on

I got the memo that there's going to be another 2nd Screen Conference in NYC in June. I hope to go!

I already blogged about my impressions of the first summit, but I thought some of you might like to see my full notes and commentary from the sessions I attended. Good stuff.

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Facing Facebook (or "Send in the Klout")

Submitted by Chris F. Brown on

Isn't it rich? Aren't you amused?

Lately I've been downright giddy at work, due primarily to sleep deprivation. This happens when my productivity shoots through the roof and I literally spend every waking hour directing pixels. I've been hard at work creating the best end-user experience I can for a new app we're releasing in a few weeks. I wish I could tell you more about it, but if you're reading this then you probably are already familiar with Metabeam, so maybe you can guess. Anyway, if you're dying to know, just come back at the end of the month.

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Who Pwns* the 2nd Screen?

Submitted by Chris F. Brown on

Who owns the 2nd Screen? Who will dominate the category? The consumer, that's who!

Multiscreen is an evolving market that will foster many success stories, several "killer apps" to serve an ever-expanding array of niche needs. If it's true, as they say, that "content is king," then it is equally true that consumer is dictator, with the power to override — or even overthrow — the king at will (and extending this analogy, metadata is currency...but more on that later).

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The Emerging Language of Multiscreen

Submitted by Chris F. Brown on

In his recent post "Deconstructing Companion App Confusion," Andy Tarczon of research company The Diffusion Group proposes three classifications for companion apps, or apps designed for use in a multiscreen environment. I agree that it's important to define the terms that fall out of jargon while a product category forms, and that it would be helpful for industry to have some definitions in place, in order to avoid confusion. Tarczon makes a fine start, but I humbly submit that his nomenclature is incomplete.

Get your app out there! Content Search

We're giving away services to showcase our system for distributing media through mobile app stores.

Maybe you've finished your film, mastered your album, or completed your non-linear graphic opus. Maybe you have fans you'd like to reward and cultivate. We're looking for digital content that showcases the next generation of multiscreen delivery, and every month we're giving away services to folks and organizations with the right story (we know it when we see it). Here's your chance to immortalize your masterpiece as a Metabeam multiscreen app.

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Which one is the 2nd Screen?

Submitted by Chris F. Brown on

I just saw the program for the first-ever 2nd Screen Summit. Lots of familiar names and faces, and I'm loving the effort to build industry camaraderie in this space. I hope to go!

For the past few years, I've seen the term "second screen" rise in popularity. Personally, I use the term "multiscreen" because there's an implicit hierarchy when you start using numbers.

Become a Metabeam Content Partner

Find out how you can become a content partner for only $10 your first year. Click here to get your app out there.

Metabeam content partners (such as LIONSGATE) are transforming digital media into a new class of experience for the connected living room.

Metabeam apps connect to each other as well as big-screen TVs and computers, forming a tapestry of "second screens" for each individual in the audience to personalize.