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Study: Nick Jr has most educational content

A study by UK broadband comparison site Cable.co.uk has uncovered the TV channels and services with the most educational content as a guide for parents attempting to home school children during lockdown. For the study, the team looked at the most popular children’s TV channels in the UK across the span of two weeks (Monday […]

January 19, 2021

Matchroom, PDC, WST sign multi-year ITV deal

Matchroom, the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), and World Snooker Tour (WST) have signed a new multi-year deal with ITV seeing some of sport’s flagship events remain on free-to-air television in the UK. ITV’s partnership with Matchroom Group will see a number of sport’s most elite events remain exclusively on ITV4. Snooker’s Champion of Champions promoted […]

January 18, 2021

The Collectv helps Dancing on Ice return to UK screens

The Collectv, the Emmy award-winning broadcast solutions and workflows consultancy, will be playing an instrumental part in ensuring that ITV Studios Entertainment’s smash hit Dancing on Ice reaches a live audience of millions when it returns to UK screens on January 17th. Shot at a purpose-built facility at Bovingdon Airfield, just south of Hemel Hempstead, […]

January 17, 2021

ITV Hub streams up 5% in December

The ITV Hub has announced a strong performance throughout December, achieving 81 million programme streams, an increase of 5 per cent year on year. The Christmas period, between 21st December and 3rd January, saw an uplift in viewing of 11 per cent, compared to the same time in 2019. With a total of 6.9 million […]

January 14, 2021

ITV implements VUALTO tech

VUALTO, a live and on-demand video streaming and DRM provider, has announced that ITV has chosen to implement VUALTO’s dynamic event orchestration technology to deliver live streamed events via its ITV Hub video-on-demand service, integrated with VUALTO’s scalable DRM solution to protect the broadcaster’s valuable video content. Following a successful first test with ITV via […]

January 13, 2021

Campbell reaches final stage of ITV’s Studio 55 Ventures

In September 2020, ITV announced a new collaboration with Founders Intelligence called Studio 55 Ventures, which saw hundreds of applications from various business ideas from inside and outside of ITV. Paying homage to ITV’s origins and rich cultural history, Studio 55 Ventures is a scheme that eventually seeks to invest in a select number of […]

January 13, 2021

Data: iPlayer searches outnumber Netflix

BroadbandDeals has analysed monthly average search volume data from SEMRush, to reveal which video streaming service is the most popular in the UK. BBC iPlayer is the UK’s most popular streaming service when it comes to the data, with 5,100,000 monthly average searches. In second place is Netflix, with 5,000,000 monthly average searches. Disney+ comes […]

January 12, 2021

Yospace extends ITV Hub ad insertion deal

ITV has extended its relationship with Yospace, the server-side ad insertion (SSAI) pioneer, for targeted advertising on live channels in ITV Hub. The companies have together played a fundamental role in developing SSAI technology, having first collaborated in 2011 and providing its first public demonstration for live streams at IBC 2012. The extension runs until […]

January 6, 2021

ITV selects Roshambo Live for pilot TV show

Live Tech Games has announced that its live mobile tournament game – Roshambo Live – has been selected by ITV’s newly created Studio 55 Ventures arm (launched in September 2020). Roshambo is a live mobile gaming experience – a  head to head tournament of Rock Paper Scissors –  that has quietly been taking the country […]

January 5, 2021

Paddy Power sponsors ITV Racing

ITV Racing will kick start 2021 with new sponsors of their live racing coverage and their magazine programme, The Opening Show. Paddy Power will take the reins as title sponsors of all Live Racing fixtures across the ITV main channel and ITV4 from January 1st, while The Opening Show will be sponsored by stablemates Betfair […]

January 4, 2021