In the first half of 2009 UK Internet advertising and grew by 4.6 per cent to £1.752 billion (E1.6bn), despite the entire advertising sector contracting by 16.6 per cent during the same period. According to the bi-annual online advertising expenditure study from the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) – the trade body for digital marketing – […]
According to the The Diffusion Group, revenue from the on-demand delivery of Internet video to the TV will grow from $621 million in 2009 to $2.1 billion by 2014, accounting for more than 25 per cent of total annual video-on-demand revenue. Fuelling this trend is the rapid diffusion of ancillary web-enabled platforms such as game […]
According to reports in the US internal YouTube e-mails, handed over in the preliminary discovery phase of the pending court action brought by Viacom, indicate that YouTube managers were aware of unauthorized content on the site and chose not to remove it. If true this would harm You Tube's defence that it cannot be responsible […]
From Colin Mann in Cannes Project Canvas, the IPTV joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 5 and BT, is co-operating with HbbTV, the new pan-European initiative aimed at harmonising the broadcast and broadband delivery of entertainment to the end consumer through connected TVs and set-top boxes. The Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) cross industry […]
Canada's largest media company, Canwest Global Communications, has filed for bankruptcy protection as it struggles to unearth itself from a C$4bn (£2.4bn) mountain of debt. The sprawling empire owns a range of broadcasting and print businesses. Canwest’s chief executive, Leonard Asper, said business would carry on as usual despite the legal process: “We are firmly […]
From Colin Mann in Cannes News that online ad spend is now bigger than TV is not the death knell for traditional broadcasting as many have suggested: it is an opportunity that TV should seize with both hands, according to social media agency Yomego. Yomego's managing director, Steve Richards, argues that TV that embraces social […]
In October Living will launch Liv– the UK's first online TV channel delivering free, exclusively commissioned and acquired short-form content everyday on the web. Liv will be accessed through leading websites and social media platforms through a host of strategic syndication partnerships that will extend the Living brand outside of the digital TV space for […]
comScore has released August 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that 161 million US Internet users watched online video during the month, the largest audience ever recorded. Online video reached another all-time high in August with more than 25 billion videos viewed during the month, with Google Sites accounting for more than […]
He did admit the popularity of some shows could cause server problems and, mindful of the ever growing criticism of BBC expansion, he stressed they would be looking to bring in partners: "An island in this socially connected world is very tricky, you don't just want to have BBC friends, but also Facebook friends if […]
Set top boxes for Project Canvas, the IP catch-up TV initiative from the BBC, ITV, Five and BT, are scheduled to be available in shops by December of next year. Richard Halton, IPTV programme director at the BBC, confirmed that, barring regulatory problems, the first Project Canvas set-top products “will be on sale by Christmas […]