ITV1 and ITVX have announced an array of entertainment to kick start their 2023 schedules. Ant & Dec are back with a brand new series of their compelling game show Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win (January 7th), offering contestants the chance to win the world’s first unlimited jackpot. The duo will also host a new run […]
King Charles’s Christmas Day message – the first since the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in September – was the most watched address by a monarch on record. Some 10.6 million tuned in for the eight-minute broadcast, which was the most watched programme on December 25th. The message aired across several channels including […]
UK regulator, Ofcom, is reviewing the rules that restrict the UK’s PSBs from running as many minutes of advertising on their pay-TV or OTT rivals. The rules were introduced in 1991 to support the new pay-TV and cable companies such as Sky to build their businesses in the UK. Non-PSB channels are allowed to air […]
Akamai Technologies has announced that it was ITV’s partner to test the complex infrastructure necessary to live stream this year’s World Cup. ITV used Akamai’s CloudTest service to stress-test its streaming capabilities ahead of the World Cup and the launch of its new streaming platform ITVX. ITV used CloudTest to identify issues and mitigate risks […]
Kevin Lygo, Director of Television at UK commercial broadcaster ITV, has declared that its recently-launched AVoD service ITVX is part of the future of the way television will be consumed. Speaking to members of the UK’s Broadcasting Press Guild, Lygo said that for ITV, 2022 had been a “huge” year. “We’d deem it a big […]
It is set to be a record year for streaming for UK commercial broadcaster ITV, as 2022 comes to a close with huge livestream audiences for I’m A Celebrity and the World Cup, as well as a strong launch for AVoD service ITVX. ITV’s biggest week ever for streaming was November 22nd– November 28th, which […]
ITV’s coverage of the World Cup was streamed 146 million times across the tournament on ITVX and ITV Hub – more than 100 million more than the previous tournament in 2018. The World Cup drew huge audiences to ITV on television and across all devices over the past four weeks. ITV showed the biggest audience […]
ITV Studios dating format Make Love, Fake Love, which debuted in the UK in 2021 as Ready to Mingle, is launching in Germany before the end of the year, with Hungary to follow in 2023. The format has, to date, been commissioned in three territories in total including the UK as the originating territory. In […]
Video solutions provider, Accedo, has worked with ITV to develop its brand new integrated advertising and subscription funded platform, ITVX. Launched last week, ITVX is the UK’s newest streaming service, with viewers gaining access to over 10,000 hours of high definition free programming and more new shows to stream for free than anywhere else, plus […]
Thinkbox, the marketing trade body for UK TV advertising, is back on TV with a new advertising campaign from creative agency Mother London, directed by Jonny & Will from Blinkink. ‘Happily Ever After’ will be on linear and on-demand TV in the UK from December 26th. Thinkbox’s new TV campaign – its seventh – tells […]