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Feb 1, 2012 3:00 AM
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.
Posted In: Advertising, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Regulatory, EC, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, CBS, Five, HTC, Hulu, Qualcomm, Countries, Europe, France, creandum, innovacom venture capital, northzone ventures, qualcomm ventures, videoplaza
Jan 10, 2012 4:58 AM
The much-delayed video-on-demand service YouView spent almost £20 ($30.89)m in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1 ($1.54)m to staff.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, VOD, Companies, BBC, Channel 4, Five, ITV
Nov 22, 2011 8:31 AM
In the copyright case brought by UK broadcasters against the TV Catchup restreaming site, a UK High Court judge has handed the site some some in-case victories. But the ultimate question of legality will be settled by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Companies, Channel 4, Five, ITV
Oct 31, 2011 1:48 PM
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this may be stretching the expression a bit too far. Cut the Birds, a game released five days ago in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store, has copied the birds from Rovio’s Angry Birds and the gameplay from Halfbrick’s Fruit…
Posted In: Apps, Entertainment, Games, Companies, Apple, iTunes, Five, Google, Android, RIM, BlackBerry, angry birds, chillingo, cut the birds, cut the rope, fruit ninja, halfbrick, rovio, solverlabs
Nov 29, 2010 7:56 AM
A High Court judge has dismissed an application by UK TV re-streaming site TVCatchup to throw out a copyright case brought against it by Britain’s main broadcasters, saying that “the claim does have a real prospect of success”.
Posted In: Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Companies, Channel 4, Five, ITV
Feb 25, 2010 3:51 AM
By Chris Tryhorn: UK broadcaster Five has signed a deal with CBS (NYSE: CBS) to make programmes available on the US network’s on-demand video website TV.com. The partnership is a coup for CBS, allowing it to steal a march on its US rivals ABC (NYSE: DIS), Fox and NBC, whose…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Five
Feb 16, 2010 9:43 AM
Telegraph.co.uk’s sources have been promising the paper Hulu’s imminent UK launch for so long now that, now it’s reporting “further delays” to the U.S. VOD site’s ambitions here, we’re barely inclined to mention it - but anyway… Despite claiming in August that Hulu was in “most advanced discussions” to land…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, Channel 4, Disney, ABC, Five, Hulu, ITV, NBC Universal, News Corp.
Jul 15, 2009 6:39 PM
When it comes to attracting local readers, WashingtonPost.com ranks higher than any other newspaper website in the country, according to Scarborough Research’s biannual report of newspaper audience ratings. That said, only 24 percent of local adults went to the online site at least once in a recent 7-day period. WaPo…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Research & Metrics, Research, Companies, Five, Gannett, Washington Post
Jul 1, 2009 2:40 AM
The UK’s Competition Commission may have outlawed the BBC/ITV/C4 commercial VOD venture Project Kangaroo on antitrust grounds, but there’s still appetite for a grand online TV JV in the UK. Five CEO Dawn Airey says broadcasters here are “staring into the abyss” if they don’t form a Hulu-like alliance, according…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Companies, Five, Kangaroo
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