BBC Director-General Mark Thompson has confirmed that the corporation intends to offer a download service of archive content over and above the seven-day catch-up service available via iPlayer. Addressing the Royal Television Society in London, Thompson noted that after the seven day public service window, a large proportion of what the BBC makes and broadcast […]
In a move aimed at reducing illegal streams and downloads that take away viewers from its broadcast channel and CWTV.com, The CW – the CBS and Warner Bros. joint venture channel aimed at 18 to 34 year-olds – is to accelerate the availability of its primetime programming on its website, shortening what had been a […]
Crackle, Sony Pictures Television’s multi-platform video entertainment network, has launched today in Brazil, becoming the only online network to offer ad-supported, always free-to-consumer full-length movies and television series in the region. Titles are available in English with either dubbed or sub-titled options in Portuguese available. Crackle offers a variety of Hollywood movies in genres including […]
Marking the first time an international distributor has signed a first look deal with an online video service, FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), a leading creator and producer of entertainment brands, and Hulu have announced an agreement for international distribution rights to the online video service’s original commission programming. The deal, which enables FME to distribute Hulu […]
blinkx, the advanced video search engine, has formed a partnership with sports media group Perform, owner of one of the largest digital sports rights portfolios in the world. This partnership will give blinkx users access to a wide array of original and high-quality college sports content, allowing fans to keep up with plays and players […]
Brightcove, a global provider of cloud content services, has unveiled a new release of the Brightcove App Cloud content app platform. App Cloud enables digital media and digital marketing organisations to build and operate growing portfolios of cross-platform native apps for Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets. The new release adds new cloud […]
Sports specialist Perform is to launch its first YouTube channel, bringing live, long-form sports content to the platform. Perform will bring a channel dedicated to coverage from its livesport.tv and goal.com brands so sport from European football coverage to darts and snooker will be on YouTube from next month. The details of what live matches […]
Australian pay-TV operators Foxtel and Austar have agreed to make some of their exclusive content available to Internet Service Providers as part of undertakings to win support from the competition regulator for their A$1.9 billion merger, reports The Australian. It is understood the pair will allow some content to be used by ISPs for IPTV, […]
A diverse group of technology leaders have formed the DASH Promoters Group, a new organisation dedicated to driving the broad adoption of MPEG’s DASH (dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP) standard, which was ratified in November 2011. DASH is designed to address the dramatic growth of Internet video by defining a universal delivery format, which provides […]
The expansion of the Sky Go service in Germany will make now make it possible to watch films not only on the iPad, Web and the Xbox 360, but also on the iPod Touch and iPhone via WiFi and 3G. This extended Sky Go App rounds up the current offering including exclusive live sport access […]