Channel 4 has removed all of its long-form content from YouTube as it focuses on its own service 4oD. The broadcaster has pulled thousands of hours of shows from C4, E4 and More4 from its YouTube channel, but said it will continue to offer short-form content via new ventures such as 4Shorts and Mashed. C4 […]
The BBC has reported it received 102 million iPlayer requests for TV and radio programmes between December 21st and January 1st, with 80 million for TV and 22 million for radio. This is a 32 per cent year-on-year rise, although the BBC has measured one extra day this year compared to 2012. New Year’s Day […]
Sky IQ, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BSkyB specialising in TV viewing behaviours, has published a range of predictions for 2014 from the musings of Liam Plowman Strategy & Propositions, Sky IQ Customer Intelligence Services. These predictions include TV advertising becoming as personalised as online, new ad releases being hotly anticipated throughout the year; not just […]
Amazon’s LOVEFiLM and MGM Television has announced that the highly anticipated second season of last year’s critically-acclaimed Norse epic “Vikings” will air exclusively on LOVEFiLM in the UK. Premiering on 28th February 2014, each new weekly installment in the 10 episode series will be available to stream the day after it broadcasts in the U.S. […]
Motive Television, the London-based provider of technology-based solutions to the television industry, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Motive Television Services, has signed a final Operation and Services Agreement with Siyaya Free To Air TV in South Africa. Under the Agreement, Motive will install, integrate, and operate Siyaya’s VoD platform in conjunction with the expected […]
Netflix is testing new prices based on the number of people who can use an account, a move that could force customers to pay more for additional family members. Netflix is offering some new customers plans that provide access on as many as four screens, letting household members watch different shows at the same time. […]
From January 6th, ABC will require viewers to sign in with their cable account information if they want to watch new episodes of the network’s shows online the day after they air on TV. The US TV network said: “Pay TV service providers are a key part of the television industry in delivering broadcast content […]
Research commissioned by movie and TV streaming service blinkbox suggests that the post-Christmas period could see a surge in on-demand viewing. The Tesco-owned operation suggests that a whopping number of Brits claim they will be turning to the Internet more than ever this Christmas, with most of us fed up with TV Scrooges serving up […]
Ad-free music subscription service Rdio is to close its Vdio Internet television service, which launched in April 2013 for Rdio premium subscribers. A statement on the Vdio website said: “We have decided to discontinue the Vdio beta service. Despite our efforts, we were not able to deliver the differentiated customer experience we had hoped for. […]
Perennial family favourite movie Home Alone is the most pirated holiday movie of 2013, according to findings from anti-piracy solutions specialist CEG TEK International. The company measured activity on the BitTorrent peer-to- peer (P2P) file sharing network during this year’s holiday season. CEG TEK reported that daily P2P download demand by BitTorrent users of the […]