Video advertising company FreeWheel has raised $16.8 million in funding from Disney's Steamboat Ventures, and existing investors, including Turner Broadcasting System, Battery Ventures, and Foundation Capital . This brings the company's total funding to nearly $30 million. Founded by former DoubleClick employees in 2007, FreeWheel allows marketers and publishers to manage video advertising campaigns across […]
Technetix, the European broadband cable and telecommunications equipment supplier, has joined MoCA as an Associate member. Technetix has recently added MoCA-compliant solutions to its product portfolio. The company is prominent in the access network and 'final mile' equipment market in Europe, and is rapidly expanding its footprint worldwide. The Technetix liberti product family, which includes […]
Telenet, the Belgian MSO, had 1,065,000 digital homes as of March 31, 2010 but is still losing basic analogue subscribers to the fierce competition from Belgacom, which offers 'free' TV with a number of its broadband and telephony packages. During the first quarter 144,000 new customers signed up. Digital TV added 65,000 homes, while 34,000 […]
BSkyB is ditching red-button ads campaigns from current advertisers on Sky channels and third parties, including MTV and Nickelodeon. However, the service will continue on ITV, UKTV and Virgin Media, as their slots are sold independently of Sky Media. At its peak in 2006, 160 campaigns were running on the red-button service but by 2009 […]
comScore, has released data from its Video Metrix service indicating that 5.5 billion videos were viewed online in the UK in February 2010, up 37 per cent versus the previous year. Driven by the popularity of YouTube, Google Sites grew 17 per cent versus a year ago to further solidify its position as the leading […]
Spend on UK mobile ads rose 32 per cent from 2008 to £37.6 million (E44 million), says the Internet Advertising Bureau / PWC. This compares with £3.4 billion online. In keeping with online, search ads are the fastest-growing kind on mobile – up 42 per cent to £20.2 million. Display ads (banners, text links, pre-/post-roll […]
German regional cable operator Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has announced its key performance indicators (KPIs) for the year ended 31 March 2010, reporting a 3.6 per cent year-on-year rise in total revenue generating units (RGUs) to 12.048 million. However, total direct subscribers fell to 7.47 million, down by 33,000 from the previous year primarily due to […]
Fox International Channels (FIC) Europe has hired Ã…se Ytreland as the new MD for Nordic and Baltic regions. Ytreland will be based in the FIC Nordic's local offices in Copenhagen and Oslo and report directly to Jesús Perezagua, FIC Europe president. Over the last two years, she has been partly based in London as EMEA […]
The BBC is cracking down on re-streamers of its iPlayer services like TVCatchUp and Zattoo. "We took them [BBC channels] down and they will remain down and we will link to the iPlayer instead," CEO of Zattoo Beat Knecht told the Guardian. "This is to comply with a request of theirs; and it frees us […]
Weekend press speculation has it that Adam Crozier, newly installed CEO at ITV, could be contemplating a bid for Channel 5. Gerhard Zeiler, chief executive of Five’s parent company, RTL, said a few weeks ago: “To take part in the consolidation, as I’m 100% sure Five will, is a valuable asset. So it is the […]