The BBC is developing a radical scheme under which UK viewers would pay to download new and old BBC TV shows from a service it hopes will co… Read more »
BBC Worldwide is aiming to more closely unify its various web brands, after BBC.com’s managing director Luke Bradley-Jones left in January. Read more »
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online str… Read more »
BBC Worldwide is exploiting the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing With The Stars) through a premium partnership with Stardoll, the vir… Read more »
The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as i… Read more »
Two of the biggest global news brands are gaining a bigger U.S. foothold – but, while one has finally broken in to the TV mainstream, the ot… Read more »
Lonely Planet’s new San Francisco-based mobile startup has gone live with its flagship mobile travel guide app Wenzani, which paidContent fi… Read more »
Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC — it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the pr… Read more »
– MSN UK: Former BBC News interactive head Pete Clifton, who is now MSN UK’s exec producer, is hiring BBC Wales’ social media editor Darren… Read more »
The UK’s leading TV catch-up brand is having a weird global launch. After debuting on iPad only in 11 European countries this July for €6.… Read more »
How does the world’s biggest travel guide book publisher, 39-year-old Lonely Planet, pack its bags for the digital era? “Relentlessly,” CEO… Read more »
Lonely Planet has created a separate technology startup in San Francisco to develop next-generation social mobile travel guides together wit… Read more »
– Condé Nast International is adding Malcolm Simms as its first chief technology officer, reporting to chairman Jonathan Newhouse and “lat… Read more »
BBC Worldwide is make episodes of Top Gear available to Facebook users at a cost of 93p.
The BBC’s commercial arm has developed a video-on-… Read more »
Finally, closure on the long-running question of what would happen to the BBC’s magazine business, the biggest publisher of subscription mag… Read more »
Mark Thompson had set an August deadline, and now BBC Worldwide has finally released its global version of the iPlayer catch-up TV service. Read more »
Facebook Credits today got another vote from the media industry as a currency for paid digital content: the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldw… Read more »
Doctor Who and Fawlty Towers will be made available to Europeans armed with an iPad from later this year, as the BBC begins the process of i… Read more »
Thirty percent of TopGear.com’s traffic comes from Facebook fans, BBC Worldwide’s digital director Dan Heaf tells Beet.tv’s Andy Plesser… Read more »
It does to TV rights holders, but for consumers — it depends what they’re watching, panelists at the pcMobile 2011 conference. Jon Dube, pa… Read more »
[Detail of how Lonely Planet is moving its digital team out of Melbourne]
Hi everyone,
Today we are making some changes to our organisatio… Read more »
Lonely Planet is making around 15 percent of its staff redundant, including relocating its online operations from Melbourne to London, in a… Read more »
Nick Ascheim is leaving his post as the Associated Press’s Digital GM to join BBC Worldwide Americas to help the company chart its mobile st… Read more »
The BBC’s international iPlayer iPad app will cost less than $10 (£6.13) a month when it launches later this year, according to director ge… Read more »
BBC Worldwide may now own all 100 percent of Lonely Planet, but the travel guide’s ultimate flight path is not yet necessarily set out. Read more »
BBC Worldwide is paying A$67.2m (£42.1m) to acquire the 25% of travel guide publisher Lonely Planet that it does not already own. Read more »
While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are battling it out to woo publishers with their in-app payment services, I asked major con… Read more »
Foursquare’s latest media partnership is BBC America. The U.S. TV channel is using the location-sharing tool to drive engagement around its… Read more »
BBC Worldwide’s Radio Times magazine is taking over the branding of Teletext Extra, a TV interface that’s used on Freeview sets in 3.8 milli… Read more »
When BBC Worldwide’s Lonely Planet temporarily dropped prices for some of its mobile travel guides during this summer’s Icelandic volcano er… Read more »
The cheesy Brit drama is already a TV hit with kids and sci-fi geeks around the world. Now Doctor Who looks set to boost BBC Worldwide’s dig… Read more »
The BBC’s plans to internationalise its iPlayer catch-up service are now going all-out, with news its television director Jana Bennett is mo… Read more »
This is huge. The BBC will launch the long-awaited global version of its iPlayer TV catch-up service on a subscription-only basis, and initi… Read more »
BBC Worldwide is swelling its mobile app portfolio, after finding some success with earlier launches. It already publishes several, paid iPh… Read more »
Lonely Planet’s Melbourne-based digital director Kelly Brough is leaving after about 18 months in the role. Her exit was announced to staff… Read more »
Once upon a time, one might have imagined a Kangaroo on a Canvas. But the former, a commercial VOD JV involving BBC Worldwide, was prohibite… Read more »
BBC Worldwide’s BBC.com EVP and MD Luke Bradley-Jones is making his latest senior online commercial hire – British Airways digital marketing… Read more »
BBC Worldwide is plucking an iPlayer exec from the BBC itself to drive through its stuttering plan to launch an overseas version of the VOD… Read more »
Herb Scannell continues to pull former Viacom (NYSE: VIA) colleagues into BBC Worldwide America. The latest is Ann Sarnoff, who left Dow Jon… Read more »
Independent television producers have vowed to block making BBC iPlayer accessible to UK license payers whilst abroad, just hours after BBC… Read more »
