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The BBC is set to allow viewers to download series on to their tablets and smartphones for the first time.

IBM has announced its new cloud platform will power the Philips TV platform for Internet services currently known as IBM SmartCloud Service Delivery for Electronics. The company is hoping to deliver greater interactive services to millions of TV viewers in more than 30 countries in Europe, as well as Brazil and Argentina.The announcement at the… Continue reading IBM to power new cloud platform for Philips Smart TV

Martin Galvin, director of agency sales at Specific Media, on why he thinks TV is the sun in the screen solar system – every other device orbits around it and needs its warmth to survive…

Google announced yesterday that it is to shut down its TV advertising program in order to focus on web advertising.Vice President of Product, YouTube/Video at Google, Shishir Mehrotra said in a post that “We launched Google TV Ads in AdWords to bring digital buying and measurement technologies to traditional TV advertising.”The Internet giant launched Google… Continue reading Google abandons TV ads program

The STV Player is now live on YouView set top boxes, and available within the STV licence areas of Scotland.

YouView, the new set-top box offering subscription-free digital TV and catch-up services, has announced that they have teamed up with Channel 5’s milkshake! to provide on-demand content from the children’s favourite on the YouView platform.

The results of Ericsson ConsumerLab’s annual study – presented in the TV & Video Consumer Trend Report 2012 – reveal that social TV is becoming a mass-market phenomenon.

OTT video service providers are keen to establish a strong presence on the variety of connected CE (consumer electronic) devices being installed in consumers’ homes, given the revenue opportunity that these devices present.

Connected TV consumers prefer ad-supported content to paid, ad-free content according to new research conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates, commissioned by digital advertising company YuMe.

Using Channel 4’s new advertising format, AdPause, Tetley has claimed a media first.