As first revealed in September 2016, viewers of the BBC’s iPlayer service will soon have to register for an account and enter a password before viewing. Warnings announcing the change have now started to appear on the iPlayer – and a login will become compulsory ‘within weeks’. The BBC has denied the move is part […]
Anne Bulford, Deputy Director-General of the BBC, has reiterated Director-General Tony Hall’s assertion that the BBC needs to reinvent itself for the online, content everywhere era, with a reinvention of catch-up service iPlayer part of such changes. Delivering a Keynote Speech at the DTG Summit in London, Bulford suggested that delegates understand the forces that […]
France Télévisions’ VoD and replay platform Pluzz has been replaced by france.tv, a service that merges all of the PSB online content, whether it is live, VoD, replay, or paid content. Replay content is now available 15 minutes after the first TV run, (reduced from four hours on the old service). The new platform will […]
Freeview Australia will launch a significant upgrade to its hybrid digital television service Freeview Plus platform in June 2017, offering a more simplified user experience and sophisticated look and feel for the catch-up service. The new platform will join the Freeview FV mobile app in Freeview’s suite of products that are designed to make watching […]
UK commercial public service broadcaster Channel 4 has unveiled an interactive VoD format that enables advertisers to incorporate the individual names of viewers of its All 4 catch-up service into the audio of their adverts for the first time. Using first-party data from Channel 4’s 15 million strong registered viewer database, launch partners Foster’s, 20th […]
Video is everywhere, and TV-quality content is available on virtually any connected device with a colour screen. Not surprisingly, therefore, we have witnessed an evolution in the way people view video. One of the key changes has been the ability to access and view video anywhere there is an Internet connection, including, of course, at […]
Multi-channel broadcaster UKTV has reported a record year for revenue, profit and viewership, with results for the year ending December 31st 2016 showing EBITDA growth of 11.3 per cent to £91.3 million (€108.9m), and revenue growth of 8 per cent to £344.8 million. “UKTV is delivering well against its strategy, with record profit, revenue, and […]
Australians’ love affair with TV continues, streaming an unprecedented 1.2 billion minutes of catch-up and live streaming TV in the past month, according to the latest OzTAM VPM 28 Day Rolling Report. In addition, 5.14 million Australians – the highest-ever number – are streaming Free Video on Demand (FVoD) content, eclipsing 3.53 million for Subscription […]
Catch-up TV ad-generated revenues in France rose from €90 million in 2015 to €105 million in 2016. The number of videos viewed increased by 27.1 per cent to €6.5 billion, according to the annual replay TV survey findings from funding organisation CNC. October 2016 set a TV catch-up record with 585.,9 million hours viewed over […]
STV Player is now available for consumers on Roku streaming players in the UK. Consumers using a Roku streaming player within STV’s licence area in Scotland will be able to live stream and catch-up on STV’s extensive range of content, including Broadchurch, the best watched drama on STV in the past decade, popular soaps Emmerdale […]