Research presented at a recent London briefing hosted by Futuresource Consulting and the MHL Consortium shows that spending on digital content is growing in all forms of entertainment and 30% of UK smartphone owners stream video to their mobile phones.

Toys’R’Us has announced the launch in the US of Toys’R’Us Movies, a brand-new digital entertainment service that provides families instant access to movies and TV shows.

Spotify has announced an app for inclusion on Samsung SmartTVs, allowing access to Spotify’s music library straight into the living room.

Vevo, the music video platform, has rolled out a redesign of its video watch pages, to reduce the clutter on vevo.com.

The average TV panel diagonal has increased in size from 34.8″ in August 2011 to 36.8″ in August 2012, according to panel makers’ shipments reported in the Monthly TFT LCD Shipment Database from NPD DisplaySearch.

The majority of British viewers have tried ‘dual screening’, with 86% of smart device owners having used their phone, tablet or computer while watching TV, according to new research unveiled today by Red Bee Media.

The global market of services on connected TVs will reach USD $3.23 billion in 2016, according to new research from GII (Global Information). This market will represent 16.8% of the OTT video market and about 1% of the global fixed video services market.

Speaking at Apps World this week, Daniel Danker, general manager, on-demand at the BBC, claims the corporation has been contrasting the effort involved in achieving reach and views on BBC iPlayer on connected TV devices versus the Apple iPad.

MediaTel’s Connected Consumer business manager, Anne Tucker, gives her take on the new second screen content, which provides video commentary alongside traditional broadcast programming…

Mercedes Benz is running an advertising campaign this weekend where TV viewers can control the story line using Twitter.