Traffic from the January football transfer window, a busy fixture list and the start of the RBS Six Nations helped break a host of digital records for BBC Sport, including the highest ever number of people accessing the site from mobile devices (3.3m unique UK browsers) on February 1st. This contributed to BBC Sport’s busiest […]
UK quad-play operator TalkTalk added 175,000 TV customers in its 2013/14 Q3, according to its Q3 Interim Management Statement. The additional numbers take the viewing base to 732,000. TalkTalk also reported that 197,000 TVoD pay- per-view movies had been taken by TV customers, compared with 123,000 for Q2. Total revenue rose 5.1 per cent to […]
Shazam, the media engagement company, has revealed that this year’s Super Bowl broadcast is the company’s most successful to date, with exclusive content from Bruno Mars and featured advertisers helping drive more than 700,000 Shazams of the broadcast, leading to millions of interactions. “We saw record levels of engagement with the Super Bowl with more […]
The Sun has signed a deal with mobile operator O2 to offer its 4G customers content including Premier League clips. As well as football video highlights, O2 subscribers will get access to thesun.co.uk and the Sun’s mobile and tablet apps. Under the terms of the deal, O2 will offer new 4G customers, and existing customers […]
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 first quarter ended December 28th 2013. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $57.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion. These results compare to revenue of $54.5 billion and net profit of $13.1 billion, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 37.9 per cent […]
TiVo has published the results of its 2013 Social Media and Multitasking Survey. The survey found that, despite the prevalence of multitasking in everyday life, most are actually actively watching TV programming when their sets are on. Though many viewers report having multitasked at least once while watching TV – by, for example, browsing the […]
Hoping to take advantage of tablets, games consoles and Internet-connected TVs received as Christmas gifts, movie search website FindAnyFilm FindAnyFilm has added Clubcard TV’s free online movies onto the service, giving owners of these new devices another legal choice when it comes to watching film online. FindAnyFilm.com aggregates film availability across all formats, allowing film […]
The multi-screen approach by viewers is intensifying in Spain with the availability of different connected devices and platforms. This is the main conclusion of Telefonica´s annual report about the Information Society which highlights that viewers have more and more access to TV content through mobile devices, with 67 per cent of smart users (26 million […]
Findings from Juniper Research reveal that the Phablet (a smartphone having a screen size between that of a typical smartphone and a tablet computer), once perceived to have limited potential, will ship over 120 million units by 2018, rising from
Insights from GfK’s MultiMedia Mentor show that teenagers’ Internet use is growing faster than that of any other key age group, abetted by a variety of devices – smartphones, tablets, videogame consoles, and connected TVs. Time spent online by teens (ages 13 to 17) rose 37 per cent, to just over 4 hours per day, […]