YouView, the long-awaited connected TV service from partners including ITV, BT and TalkTalk, has spent almost £20 million in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1 million to staff.
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LOVEFiLM has bolstered its content offering following new licensing deals with the BBC and ITV.
A new deal between Time Warner’s film studio and Netflix and Blockbuster will mean customers signed up to the services will have to wait 56 days for films after the DVDs first go on sale, instead of 28 days.
News Corp’s BSkyB has acquired a 10% stake in social TV start-up Zeebox.
Facebook is one of the most popular apps on Samsung connected TVs worldwide, according to Futuresource Consulting.
November proved to be the most popular month so far in 2011 for VoD viewing – with Channel 4 catch up and archive content attracting 44 million views during the month, across all the platforms on which 4oD is available.
Absolute Radio stations are now available on connected TV sets following a partnership deal with Samsung.
Samsung Smart TV is set to introduce ads in an update to the Smart TV SDK, according to Electricpig.
Boxee have announced that it has released its last software version of its online TV service for Boxee for PCs, Mac and Ubuntu.
According to new research released by eMarketer, online video has reached critical mass among US internet viewers, predicting 169 million people, or 71% of US internet users, will be watching online video each month by the end of 2012.
