iPad Added 300,000 iPlayer Views Last Month
iPlayer requests from iPad rose by 22 percent in February, after the BBC finally introduced the app version of the VOD player in the middle… Read more »
BBC News’ Emerging Platforms Editor Brannan Leaving
Veteran BBC News online exec Paul Brannan is leaving the corporation after 14 years, paidContent:UK has learned and confirmed. Read more »
Slide Deck: What The BBC Wants From Connected TV
BBC Archive director Roly Keating gave this presentation to the Digital Television Group (DTG), which which the BBC has been working ont he… Read more »
BBC Multimedia Journalism Head Clifton Redundant
BBC News Online is to lose one of its most experienced journalism executives, when Pete Clifton is made redundant next month. Read more »
BBC’s International iPad iPlayer Will Cost Under $10 A Month
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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 »
BBCWW Seeking An Online Partner For Lonely Planet
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’s Syndication Rules Are ‘Restrictive’, BSkyB Claims
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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is claiming millions of its customers are potentially being excluded from watching BBC shows on demand because of “unneces… Read more »
BBCWW To Buy Out Rest Of Lonely Planet
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 »
BBC Finally Turns iPlayer In To A VOD TV Aggregator
Commercial public TV broadcasters are about to get a big boost to their web-based VOD services from the BBC.
Nine months after it first ann… Read more »
@ MWC: Big Media Is On The Fence Over New In-App Charges
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 »
Interview: BBC iPlayer Boss Says All Good Things Come To Those Who Wait
The BBC brought its iPlayer seven-day catch-up, one of the world’s most popular VOD products, to iPad and Android as apps this week – to a m… Read more »
Confirmed: iPlayer App Coming To iPad, Android This Week
We already reported last month that the BBC’s iPlayer service would finally be released as an app before February’s end.
The BBC had schedu… Read more »
First Look: Comcast Xfinity Flips The Switch On iPad Streaming
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) cable subs with iPads or iPhones and the Xfinity TV app are now part of the (some) TV Everywhere club. The TV show and… Read more »
BBC America Piggybacks On Foursquare For Rugby Drive
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 Digital Media Project Delayed For Two Years By Siemens Contract Tear-Up
The BBC’s Digital Media Initiative, an ambitious corporation-wide scheme to record, edit and store AV digitally, has been delayed by 21 mont… Read more »
‘Radio Times’ Becomes EPG In 3.8 Million Freeview Homes
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 »
BBC Online Must ‘Urgently’ Improve Indie Quota System
BBC Online is meeting its obligation to commission 25 percent of eligible production work from external suppliers – but must make wide-rangi… Read more »
Video: Anthony Rose On Google TV’s Failure And His Next Big Project
As BBC future media controller, Anthony Rose took an unwieldy iPlayer by the horns and turned it in to the UK’s VOD powerhouse. He recently… Read more »
BBC’s iPlayer App Finally Nearing Release
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Remember those plans for a BBC iPlayer mobile and iPad app? Nearly 12 months after they were announced and six months after they were green-… Read more »
BBC Cuts Aim To Please Commercial Sector But Will Hurt Indies
The BBC’s online cutbacks take pains to placate long-critical commercial opponents, with stepbacks from showbiz, sport and specialist busine… Read more »
Analysis: In BBC’s Age Of Austerity, Algorithms Are Axeman’s Best Friend
Some of the BBC’s online cuts (see full list) are not as deep as they might first appear – but the Putting Quality First strategy package ne… Read more »
Interview: BBC’s Outgoing Huggers Says Cuts Fix A Bloated Website
“We’ve been able to fix a lot of the things that were broken,” the BBC’s outgoing top digital exec, future media and technology director Eri… Read more »
BBC’s Big Online Cuts: Full Details Announcement
Here is the BBC’s full announcement of its online cutbacks…
The BBC is to re-shape BBC Online by 2013 to deliver its public service miss… Read more »
Staff Memo: BBC’s Thompson On Huggers Leaving
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The full memo from BBC director-general Mark Thompson announcing Erik Huggers’ departure:
Dear All,
After nearly four years with BBC Futur… Read more »
BBC Online Chief Huggers Leaving For Intel In Cost Cuts
The BBC’s most senior online executive, Erik Huggers, is leaving the corporation for Intel, prompting his Future Media & Technology division… Read more »
Updated: MTV ‘Skins’ Strategy: Aim For Social Hit First, TV Hit After
MTV in the States has been heavily promoting its new teen drama Skins for months across a range of social media, including Tumblr, Facebook… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: HP Tablet; Apple’s Next OS; Ireland Mobile TV; BBC WAP
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– HP: Has EVP of HP’s mobile business Todd Bradley confirmed that HP (NYSE: HPQ) will be launching, at a press event in February, a tablet… Read more »
BBC’s VOD Syndication Refusal Backed By Regulator
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The BBC Trust has provisionally backed the BBC in its refusal to syndicate out catch-up TV shows on a programme-by-programme basis. It means… Read more »
BBC iPlayer Out-Linking Is More Difficult Than First Thought
It’s eight months since the BBC said it would link from out its iPlayer to commercial counterparts’ own TV catch-up sites. But it still hasn… Read more »
BBC iPlayer Gets More S4C VOD, Will Also Link Out
The new terms signed between the BBC and Welsh-language S4C, which reduce the value of TV shows the former makes for the latter from £23.5… Read more »
Lonely Planet Drops App Prices To Get Noticed At Christmas
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 »
BBC Will Consult Commercial Web Rivals, Online Cuts Soon
The BBC Trust has ratified the Putting Quality First strategy submitted by the BBC executive in March, with two particular new details… Read more »
O&O Slide Deck: Half Of People Do Want Local TV
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Why let the apparent lack of a business model stand in the way of Jeremy Hunt’s vision for a first ever UK local TV ecosystem? An Oliver & O… Read more »
Digital Doctor Who May Be Big This Christmas For BBCWW
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 »
BBC’s Bennett Will Be Global iPlayer President
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 »
BBC Plans Subscription-Only U.S. iPlayer On iPad
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 Takes A Lead In Cross-Platform TV Measurement
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In a broadcasting industry plagued by, yet obsessed with, what some concede is faulty audience measurement, the BBC is taking it upon itself… Read more »
Broadcasters Line Up New Mobile Apps For TV Brands
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 Digital Director Brough Leaving
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 »
BBC Red Button Underperforms Websites And Must Cut Costs
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The BBC’s pseudo-interactive Red Button TV service has high reach but is appreciated by viewers less than BBC online services and must cut c… Read more »
