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Catch Up

Dave goes live on YouView

A seven-day catch-up service for popular entertainment channel Dave is now available through on demand TV service YouView. The service viewers to access content on the channel through a Dave-branded on demand portal and through YouView’s seven day scroll back programme guide. Dave forms part of UKTV’s network of 10 channels and is well known […]

July 23, 2013

Yahoo!7 partners with Brightcove

Brightcove, a global provider of cloud content services, has revealed that Yahoo!7 has teamed with Brightcove to deliver a technology platform for online video consumption and monetisation in Australia. Through the partnership, Brightcove Video Cloud enables Yahoo!7 to deliver high-quality catch-up TV, including long and short-form content, to viewers throughout Australia across desktops, smartphones and […]

July 23, 2013

BBC upgrades Android iPlayer

The BBC has rolled out improved video stream quality on its Android iPlayer app and is working on launching a download option on the Android app “asap”. In a company blog post, the BBC said “We’ve been gradually improving the video quality we serve over Wi-Fi to all Android devices, and had focused on delivering […]

July 12, 2013

Thinkbox: Live TV and VoD can co-exist

A study into how people watch TV has revealed some key differences between watching TV live and on-demand and between different types of VoD. It has also explained why live viewing continues to thrive alongside VoD. The study – Screen Life: TV in demand – was commissioned by Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV […]

July 3, 2013

700,000 watch Rolling Stones on iPlayer

The Rolling Stones Glastonbury performance on Saturday night has clocked up nearly 700,000 views on the iPlayer according to figures from the BBC. This is almost double the 379,680 who viewed The Arctic Monkeys’ Friday headline performance. Mumford and Sons, who headlined on the Sunday, drew 163,650 requests. The youth appeal of the Arctic Monkeys […]

July 3, 2013By Nik Roseveare

YouView: Catch-up a fifth of TV viewing

The use of catch-up or on demand television services such as BBC iPlayer and ITV Player now accounts for a fifth of the nation’s TV viewing according to the first-ever YouView census into national television habits for 2013. It also found that in a typical week, the average Brit claims to record just under nine […]

July 1, 2013

4oD launches on free time

Freesat, the subscription-free satellite TV service, has confirmed the launch of 4 on Demand on <free time>, offering viewers the last thirty days of catch-up and many hours of archive from Channel 4. Channel 4’s video on demand service joins the BBC iPlayer, ITV Player and YouTube on  <free time>, and brings a wealth of […]

June 27, 2013

BBC’s Rivera: Internet needs to become creative platform

Ralph Rivera, the BBC’s Director, Future Media, has suggested that the Internet needs to become a creative platform to build on the early successes of broadcast and online convergence. “The Internet as a distribution platform needs to shift to be the Internet as a creative platform,” he said during a keynote address at the IEA […]

June 26, 2013By Colin Mann

Ooyala: Viewers watching more mobile, tablet video

Findings from Ooyala, the specialist in video publishing, analytics and monetisation, indicate that tablet and mobile video have attained new consumption records, with live video dominating video-on-demand. The company’s Global Video Index Q1 2013 reveals key trends that are transforming linear television into a personalised, online, mobile experience. Similar to previous quarters, Q1 2013 data […]

June 19, 2013

A fifth of catch-up TV is advertising

Almost a fifth (19 per cent) of online TV viewing is disrupted by unavoidable adverts, highlighting the increasingly intrusive nature of online advertising. The research, which was conducted by Adblock Plus in June 2013, surveyed 150 television programmes across the three terrestrial TV channels which feature advertising in the UK: 4oD, Demand 5 and ITV […]

June 18, 2013