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YouTube Invests to Get Quality Content

Posted in Broadband, Investments and M&A, OTT, tagged , on April 15, 2011 |

Up to 25 individuals can win €25,000 (£22,000) to invest in their YouTube content, plus a place at a ‘Creator Camp’ – which provides a crash course in lighting, sound and production techniques. Just some of the plans that Google is putting in place to improve the content on YouTube.  In related news, YouTube revenue [...]

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New Exec for Digital Platforms at Arqiva

Posted in Broadband, Broadcast, OTT, tagged , on April 11, 2011 |

Arqiva has hired Charles Constable, former strategy director at Channel 5 to head up a newly-created digital platforms business unit. This new unit will include the YouView JV.

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Government decides not to prosecute BT over Phorm

Posted in Advertising, Broadband, tagged , on April 11, 2011 |

There was “insufficient evidence” to prove that recording every web page your users go to is “unlawful interception”.    The BBC supply this balanced report. But my opinion is that this is just another case where the technology is well ahead of the law and the regulators.  I agree that a criminal act was probably not [...]

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Blinkx Buys Burst Media

Posted in Advertising, Broadband, Investments and M&A, OTT, tagged , on April 8, 2011 |

A vertical integration of Blinkx’s online video aggregation solution and Burst Media advertising services.  However, click through and read the interesting point that Blinkx has recently reported a 90% year-on-year growth in revenue.  Pretty impressive.

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DTG Releases Connected TV Spec

Posted in Broadband, Broadcast, OTT, tagged , , , on April 7, 2011 |

Oh, yummy!!  DTG has published D-Book 7 and it includes the connected TV spec for the UK.

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BBC Live + 7 Showing Alternative Measurement

Posted in Advertising, Broadband, Broadcast, OTT, tagged , , on March 31, 2011 |

BBC Live + 7 research is meant to augment BARB figures, but is it really showing how far off BARB is? BBC are a shareholder of BARB but, BBC objectives are all about reach whereas the other BARB shareholders care most about commercialising their airtime.  BARB drives the £4bn TV Ad market in the UK [...]

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Content Partners for YouView Announced

Posted in Broadband, Broadcast, OTT, tagged , on March 24, 2011 |

The Guardian reports the list of content partners announced by YouView today.  BSkyB is among those planning to distribute content through the YouView platform.

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DeltaTre Powers Sky Sports Champions League Site

Posted in Broadband, Broadcast, OTT, tagged , on March 22, 2011 |

Sky Sport’s Champions League site will show all of the matches in HD and is powered by DeltaTre’s DIVA platform.  The site is free to all Sky Sports subscribers.

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Digital Economy Act Battle

Posted in Broadband, Security, tagged on March 21, 2011 |

TalkTalk and BT are to mount another legal challenge to the Digital Economy Act (DEA) that was supposed to be implemented by 2012.   Link is to the Telegraph which gives a good summary of the issues with the DEA.

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Fetch TV and Betfair; ITV Only Way is Essex and Microsoft XBox, Mediaroom mash up

Posted in Broadband, Broadcast, Devices, Gaming, OTT, tagged , , , , on March 11, 2011 |

ITVT “news round up” has three great stories. FetchTV and Betfair joining forces for an app that lets consumers bet from their armchair ITV’s the Only Way is Essex gets dedicated interactive content Microsoft rumoured to be mashing up XBox, Mediaroom and Kinect for some new offering in market before Christmas 2011 – very cloak [...]

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