Friday Night Lights [of the TV]

  This week's 10 Things is going to be short and sweet, kinda like me. If you're anything like me and my friends, our DVR/Netflix is our current significant other even if we already have a significant other. There is nothing better than coming home, plopping your butt on the couch, and vegging out watching all the shows you feel asleep in the middle of the night before. So here are 10 shows you should be watching/DVR-ing/start marathoning on Netflix ASAP. And trust me on these. It might have taken me a couple weeks of texting and dropping hints but I successfully got Jenn hooked on Chicago Fire, to the point were she now texts me about episodes.

10 Things [Shows]... You should be watching

1. Grimm NBC

2. Chicago Fire NBC

3. The Client List Lifetime

4. Dallas TNT

5. Friday Night Lights you'll have to OnDemand/Netflix this one, but SO worth it

6. Heart of Dixie The CW

7. Awkward MTV

8. Revenge ABC

9. Game of Thrones HBO

10. Big Rich Atlanta Style (judge me all you want, but this show has me rolling every Sunday night)

#GOT140 ?

  It's Sunday night, which means life stops at 9pm EST and Game of Thrones takes over our apartment. HBO has done it again. First it was Entourage. Now it's the medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones that has me counting the days till the next episode. The second season started just last Sunday and being the social media freak I am, I of course tweeted about it. While scrolling through my timeline I started to notice that the Game of Thrones handle, @GameOfThrones, was RT select fans' tweets all containing the hashtag #GOT140 and the episode's name. So being the responsible Advertising 490: Social Media student I am, I began to dig deeper. 

   I pick up on everything social media oriented these days and am usually impressed by most, but HBO's new digital marketing campaign for season 2 of Game of Thrones blew my hair back. Through HBO Connect I found Game of Thrones's #GOT140 social media campaign and I must say it is pretty dang cool! Every week the keyword fans should use in their tweets changes, usually having to do something to do with that week's episode's title. Regardless of that week's keyword fans should always include the hashtag #got140 and/or mention the show's Twitter handle. Fans can tweet directly from the site along with viewing select tweets from the night pulled from various fans' accounts. Tonight's keyword was "TheNightLands" and you bet your sweet bippy I will be tweeting through #GOT140 every week from now on. In the Game of Thrones you might win or die, but here in ADV 490 you tweet/blog/fb/pin/instagram or die.