SeeSaw Shuts After Buy-Out Cash Fails To Arrive
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Looks like it is finally all over for troubled UK TV VOD aggregator SeeSaw, whose homepage now reads: “Thanks for your support but SeeSaw is… Read more »
BBC Cuts: Digital To Get £40 Million Annual ‘Innovation Fund’
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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 »
SeeSaw Crunch Time: Execs Leave Amid Restructure As Channel 5 Disappears
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Now is kill-or-cure time for troubled UK TV-VOD service SeeSaw, which has not received promised investment.
Platform controller John Keelin… Read more »
Where Are SeeSaw’s Missing Millions?
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The TV-VOD rollercoaster that is SeeSaw is still waiting for an overdue promised investment to arrive. But it will likely need to cut costs… Read more »
SeeSaw Loses C4 Shows In Funding Hitch
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The new owner of SeeSaw has run into difficulty hitting a deadline to secure multimillion-pound funding and has lost a key content deal with… Read more »
Bebo Owner Leads Takeover Of UK TV Site SeeSaw, Arqiva Keeps 25 Percent
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The rumours are true – after missing out on buying MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) last month, Criterion Capital Partners is acquiring SeeSaw, the UK on… Read more »
Bebo Owner Bidding For UK TV Streamer SeeSaw
The private equity turnaround company which took Bebo off AOL’s hands is negotiating a buy-out of the underperforming UK TV site SeeSaw, whi… Read more »
Why SeeSaw Failed And What It Means
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UK transmitter operator Arqiva is pulling the plug on SeeSaw, the commercial TV VOD aggregator that was formed from Project Kangaroo’s ashes… Read more »
With A Million Streams, SeeSaw Changes Its Ad Sales House
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In the course of announcing it has contracted Smartclip to sell ads on most of its videos, would-be TV aggregator SeeSaw has finally disclos… Read more »
UK VOD Strugglers Shake-Out: YouView Chair, SeeSaw CEO Out
The UK’s two main industry VOD ventures to have emerged from public broadcasting are turning over some of their top staff…
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Arqiva Seeks Investment For SeeSaw; Sale Is One Option
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Arqiva is hunting for an investment partner for its online TV venture SeeSaw, with options including a complete sale of the operation though… Read more »
Industry Moves: Zoopla Marketer, Arqiva CEO, Future Marketing, News Int.
– Zoopla: The property site is adding Match.com’s UK managing director Charlotte Harper (pictured), previously of Travelocity, O2 and BSkyB… Read more »
SeeSaw Tries A 1p On-Ramp To Premium
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Arqiva’s TV catch-up website SeeSaw continues its curious pitch for paying customers.
The site last recently started charging viewers £2.9… Read more »
SeeSaw’s Solution For Ads Bloat – Users Pick Them Or Pay To Hide Them
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In the catch-up TV aggregation stakes, Arqiva’s SeeSaw has been struggling against broadcasters’ own offerings and YouTube.
The website has… Read more »
Arqiva Pitching To Re-Sell SeeSaw Technology
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Communications infrastructure provider Arqiva is aiming to license the technology underpinning its SeeSaw VOD site to international broadcas… Read more »
SeeSaw Launches Paid Options, Starting At £0.99
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By Mark Sweney: SeeSaw, the video-on-demand website born from the ashes of the failed Project Kangaroo, has launched a paid-for service with… Read more »
Just Three Weeks Old, SeeSaw Picks Its Payment Platform
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We knew SeeSaw would soon charge for, as well as give away, streaming shows when it launched last month. Now a couple more details…
It’s… Read more »
First Look: Watch The First TV Ad For New VOD Site SeeSaw
Here’s the first of what will be several 10-second ad spots for new VOD website SeeSaw. This ad will run on Channel 4 today, followed by ITV… Read more »
SeeSaw’s No-Frills TV Site Planning PPV, Subs, U.S. Shows
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SeeSaw will introduce PPV in Q2 and is investigating offering a subscription addition later, bosses of Arqiva’s new TV VOD website said at t… Read more »
VOD Arm’s Race: C4, TalkTalk Join Canvas; C4, Five Mounting SeeSaw?
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BBC’s IPTV director Richard Halton now has C4 and TalkTalk to add to his Project Canvas partners BBC, ITV (LSE: ITV), Five and BT (NYSE: BT)… Read more »
SeeSaw Finally Announces Some Content, But Only A Few BBCWW Shows
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Arqiva’s unlikely son-of-Kangaroo online VOD portal SeeSaw has finally struck its first content deal. Its licensing BBC Worldwide shows for… Read more »
SeeSaw Shows Its Logo, Now All It Needs Is Some Content
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Finally, two years after it was first proposed, we have a logo for SeeSaw. The webite is live at seesaw.com, with the branding, a Twitter li… Read more »
VOD In Slow-Mo: SeeSaw’s Launch Hazy, ITV Protects Its ‘Crown Jewels’
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Even Arqiva appears unconvinced that it can launch SeeSaw from the remains of Project Kangaroo before year’s end – just one indication that,… Read more »
Kangaroo 2.0 Is SeeSaw After All, But Where’s The Content?
TV transmitter infrastructure company Arqiva, which recently bought the technology platform for the knocked-out Project Kangaroo online VOD… Read more »
BBCWW 08/09: BBC.com Ads Top £10 Million, Kangaroo Shutdown Cost £9.1 Million
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BBC Worldwide is blaming its wasted Kangaroo investment and its BBC.com build-out for a loss of over £30 million from its 2008/09 digital m… Read more »
Five’s Airey To UK Broadcasters: Let’s Partner To Stop Hulu
The UK’s Competition Commission may have outlawed the BBC/ITV/C4 commercial VOD venture Project Kangaroo on antitrust grounds, but there’s s… Read more »
UK’s Kangaroo VOD Service Killed By Regulators; An Opportunity For Hulu?
The UK’s proposed big “Kangaroo” VOD JV, stuck in regulatory limbo since announcing its intention to launch in 2007, has now been killed for… Read more »
‘UK Hulu’ Kangaroo Ruled Anti-Competitive; Back To The Drawing Board
Project Kangaroo, a Hulu-like UK VOD JV from BBC Worldwide, ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4, would reduce competition and harm consumers, Brita… Read more »
@ Mipcom: UK’s ‘Hulu’ Kangaroo Plans To Offer US Shows, Movies
The UK’s upcoming Hulu equivalent codenamed Kangaroo will offer US TV shows and movies, despite being formed by three British public broadca… Read more »
‘UK Hulu’ Kangaroo Further Delayed In Competition Inquiry
UK VOD JV Kangaroo, which was already facing an antitrust inquiry of six months before even launching, is now being delayed by a further mon… Read more »
