YouTube will make its debut as a movie rental outlet in the US this week to help promote some of the films that will be shown at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in Utah. It is part of a test that YouTube hopes will encourage more studios to rent movies through its site, eventually creating […]
blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, has been ranked a top online brand by the Nielsen Company. blinkx joins the ranks of YouTube, Hulu, and Yahoo as a top online video site in a recent report based on video streams for December 2009. In addition to its ranking of top online brands, Nielsen reports […]
Sony Pictures Television has signed a VOD deal with Voddler, the Swedish home entertainment service, to make movies from the Hollywood studio available on-demand to users of the on-demand service. The agreement means that Voddler users can immediately access a range of recent and library titles from the Sony Pictures feature film catalogue on a […]
The BBC has revealed that of the record 100 million iPlayer requests in December, 11 per cent were via games consoles, 75 per cent up on prior months. The news comes as The BBC Trust announces another consultation this time on specifics of the on demand services provided through iPlayer. Consultations are open until March […]
iPlayer, the BBC's online catch-up service, received more than 100 million programme requests in a month for the first time, with a total of more than 115 million requests. The BBC also said that the week beginning December 14th proved to be its biggest ever for the radio player with 7.7 million programme requests from […]
Freesat has revealed that the beta of BBC iPlayer has now been expanded to all set top boxes manufactured by Humax. A code (5438) for the trial has been released to anyone with Humax Freesat HD or Freesat+ HD receivers. To participate in the trial, users will need to hook up their boxes to an […]
French broadcasting regulator the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) has authorised digital operator TV Numéric together with broadcast transmission specialist TDF, and TDF, together with four DTT services (TF1, France Télévisions, Arte et NRJ 12), to carry out 'push VOD' trials on digital terrestrial. The trials will cover the provision of a video on demand […]
The rise of video-on-demand viewing and online TV catch-up services will not kill the advertising-funded business models of traditional TV broadcasters over the next decade, according to a report by Enders Analysis. The research company said that despite the concern about viewing figures for watching TV via computers, 99 per cent of total viewing of […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome Hot on the heels of La7, Italian broadcasters Sky Italia, Mediaset and RAI are also planning to launch their own “on demand” services. This month, Sky Italia is introducing Sky Selection On Demand, a free service that allows subscribers equipped with MySky and MySkyHD decoders to choose from a constantly […]
From Branislav Pekic in Rome La7 has become the first national broadcaster in Italy to launch an on-demand platform in High Definition, available online and free of charge. The platform allows viewers to watch shows broadcast by the channel on-the-air over the past week. Meanwhile, according to the CEO of Telecom Italia Media, Mauro Nanni, […]