Comments on: Now BBC lets Brits watch the Olympics on Facebook http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/28/now-bbc-lets-brits-watch-the-olympics-on-facebook/ The economics of digital content Wed, 22 May 2013 20:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Hank http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/28/now-bbc-lets-brits-watch-the-olympics-on-facebook/#comment-107635 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 12:12:17 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=212709#comment-107635 I thought Facebook only whitelisted video players that did not geo-block content. hmmm

]]> By: Joe http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/28/now-bbc-lets-brits-watch-the-olympics-on-facebook/#comment-107518 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:00:39 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=212709#comment-107518 I’m dumbfounded. The BBC must the financial deal that has been arranged. Are Facebook gaining money out of ads on BBC content?

How does this fit with the BBC Charter (1.3.3) ….”the Agreement forbids any BBC service funded by the licence fee or grant-in-aid from carrying advertising or sponsored programmes”. This is not BBC worldwide, which has different policies. Nothing in the charter states who is the recipient of the advert revenue.

How can the BBC justify Facebook getting financial gain from ad revenue from BBC content and valuable viewer information from the BBC?

A while back, the BBC used to put a facebook widget *ON EVERY PAGE* on its news site. That widget was hosted by facebook, so they, for free, got web stat information on BBC website visitors. I pointed this out to the BBC, and a few days later they removed the widget thankfully. Is this another case similar to this?

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