BBC News is stepping up its social media offerings after mobile and tablet viewing figures overtook desktop use for the first time in December. BBC News launched Instafax, a new short-form video news service delivered to Instagram users. The project is a month-long experiment, with three 15-second videos uploaded a day, intended to serve as […]
The UK tablet market will drop in 2014, with sales expected to decline from 17 million in 2013 to less than 14 million this year. This is according to the annual tablet forecast from telecom analysts CCS Insight. The forecast follows
Freesat, the UK subscription-free DTH satellite TV service, has launched the Freesat App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, confirming its immediate availability on the App Store. The app acts as a TV guide for all free TV viewers, so Freesat suggests that whether it’s enjoying brand new British drama such as Call the Midwife […]
Australians with a tablet computer in the household are more likely to shop online and browse the Internet while watching TV, according to the results from the Roy Morgan Retail Monitor show. While 1 in 2 Australians aged 14 and over now buys something over the Internet at least every three months, this rises to […]
Motive Television and its partner Granite Television Corporation are progressing further toward consumer testing and launch of a tablet TV service in the US on behalf of their joint venture, Tablet Television. Motive has confirmed the signing of a binding Memorandum of Understanding with Ecopro ICT of Seoul, Korea, a subsidiary of Ecopro, of Cheongwon-gun, […]
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE||Content First) have released the findings of the first part of a joint research study analysing how and why consumers use Second Screen devices to engage with video content. The findings,
In addition to 200 hours of network TV coverage, BBC Sport plans to deliver the most complete digital coverage of a Winter Olympic Games to date, including over 650 hours of live action via six HD streams. BBC Sport will also bring all the analysis, insight, news and highlights from Sochi 2014 to audiences wherever […]
The boom in tablets has helped movie and TV streaming service blinkbox to a successful festive season, with sales up 245 per cent year on year over the Christmas period. The surge fuelled by pre-Christmas sales of tablets such as Tesco’s own Hudl, which features apps for the blinkbox entertainment services. Sales on mobile devices, […]
Following recent launches of TV Everywhere apps, global media content company A+E Networks is continuing its momentum with the addition of Roku devices to its watch apps offerings. A&E, HISTORY and Lifetime network apps are available on Roku players – including Roku 3, Roku 2, Roku LT, Roku HD and the Roku Streaming Stick. The […]
Findings released at International CES by TiVo suggest that streaming to mobile devices among its subscriber base is on the rise and driving longer periods of engagement on second screens, an increase directly related to the launch of TiVo Roamio in August of 2013, with recorded shows leading the way as the streaming content of […]