Deloitte forecasts SVOD will generate about £5 billion globally this year, amounting to only 3% of the £168 billion pay-TV market.

BBC iPlayer leads the pack with more than 30m downloads, followed by BBC News with 15m downloads and BBC Weather with 9.5m.

November was a fairly poor month for commercial television channels, with just ITV 1 seeing an increase in revenue.

From the best films to the rise (and rise) of programmatic – and much in between – hear from Xaxis, Mindshare, dunnhumby, Newscred, DCM, Primesight and Carat as they offer their predictions for the year ahead.

After a day of judging this week, the final shortlist for the 2015 MediaTel Media Research Awards has today been announced.

If the deal goes ahead, BT would own the UK’s most largest 4G network, picking up more than 24 million direct mobile customers.

Rusbridger will leave next summer after 20 years at the paper to become chair of the Scott Trust.

The ability to focus advertising using the first one or two letters of a postcode builds on the existing location-based targeting offered by Sky AdSmart, which allows for the selection of TV regions across the UK.

Less than a handful of national newspaper titles recorded an increase in circulation during the month of November, according to the latest ABC results – although the declines were mostly marginal.

Films purchased on a BT TV YouView or Vision+ set top box will also be available for customers to watch on smartphones, tablets or PCs at no extra cost.