Boxee announced Tuesday that it raised $16.5 million and plans to add more movies, TV shows, and video services. We measured chatter online comparing Boxee, Roku, Google TV and Apple TV.
Boxee vs. Roku vs. Google TV vs. Apple TV buzz trend
Boxee chatter surged past Google TV and Apple TV today, but is still well below Netflix service Roku.
Boxee vs. Roku vs. Google TV vs. Apple TV sentiment Feb. 2011
Over the last month, conversations around Apple TV were 82% positive, Boxee conversations were 75% positive, Google TV 73% and Roku 69% positive.
Boxee sentiment March 1
Following the Boxee announcement, conversations around Boxee were 96% positive on Tuesday.
It’s that time again! We’re back with another Buzz Weekly. This week we cover Windows Phone 7, Google TV, Apple TV, Roku, Boxee Box and the Chilean miner rescue.
Google officially introduced Google TV to the public on October 4, and Sony unveiled its newest line of Internet-enabled TVs complete with Google TV software this week. Google TV joins Apple TV, Boxee Box and Roku in the set top box market attempting to change the way consumers watch TV. Check out a list comparing available apps for all four services.
We used Social Radar to run analysis on Google TV, Apple TV, Boxee Box and Roku. Despite the announcement and the buzz, Google TV chatter pales in comparison to Roku chatter.
Google TV has been generating the most buzz among these new Web TV solutions, far above Apple TV. Though Apple is seemingly no longer making Apple TV their “hobby”, they have certainly failed to dominate the buzz in this market as they tend to do with all of their other products.
Though all solutions have very positive conversation, Apple TV has also received the lowest of the four.
We also broke down the distribution of chatter among hot conversation topics around Web TV solutions.
You can see among movies and TV shows conversation, Apple TV dominates the conversation. Google TV is more commonly discussed around conversations about music, Netflix and videos. Another surprise is that Roku, though created by Netflix, receives less conversation market share among Netflix conversations than Apple TV or Google TV. However, Roku does dominate the market share among Hulu references.
Though it’s still quite early to see if there’s a clear winner in this new race, the common variable is that these solutions are all well received. As they become more common in the home, we’ll keep an eye on how the conversation changes.
Yesterday Apple unveiled a slew of new products, including announcements on iOS 4.1, New iPods, iTunes 10, Ping and Apple TV.
The word Apple appeared in more than 1% of all Internet chatter yesterday.
Which of Apple’s announcements generated the most chatter? Apple TV generated the most, followed by iPod, Ping, iTunes 10 and iOS 4.1.
Ping seems to be the most polarizing topic. Part of the new iTunes software, Ping is a social networking feature that allows you to comment on music, ‘like it’ a la Facebook and ‘follow’ users a la Twitter.
Sentiment around Ping has been 44% negative so far today, with words like half-baked, ugly and bland appearing in posts.
Even the new iTunes logo received criticism. Sentiment around the new logo was 66% negative, with the word ‘hate’ appearing in more than 10% of posts mentioning the logo. Although, personally I think removing the CD from the logo was a wise choice
Clearly Apple is moving in the right direction with social networking. But options like Spotify appear to offer much greater functionality.
Apple chatter spiked well above Microsoft and even generated more chatter than Google, Obama, Facebook and the NFL yesterday. So people are still talking about Apple.
