The news follows details of the iPlayer’s evolution announced by director general Tony Hall, in which he described a ‘next generation’ platform that would act as the ‘front door to the BBC’.
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Advertisers, agencies and publishers will be able to record how many people, by age and gender, are seeing their ad across TV and online – both combined, or exclusively across either platform.
Over one in three Millennials watch mostly online video and no broadcast TV, according to research from the New York Times.
A High Court ruling has forced TVCatchup to remove 21 of its channels aired by broadcasters ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
BT will offer Sky Movies for a monthly subscription that customers can add to their existing TV package from October 26.
Starting in November, the social media feature will be used across NBC Universal’s cable and broadcast networks, including its coverage of the Winter Olympics.
The report found that a number of parents surveyed admitted to making video calls to let their children know that dinner was ready.
You could translate much of Tony Hall’s speech to mean ‘If I close my eyes hard enough, I can pretend that BSkyB, Virgin, BT and TalkTalk don’t exist’. But most of us are looking at the future of TV with our eyes open.
The chairman of the Association of Online Publishers, John Barnes, has said that a “consumer contract” should be produced to rebuild public trust in the wake of ongoing personal data controversies.
Sports Illustrated is to begin testing out a new kind of paywall, in which readers will have early access to print articles if they watch a 30-second video ad first.
