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ITV’s online TV service has failed to increase its visitor numbers since November, while the BBC’s iPlayer has been recording strong growth.ITV’s simulcast and catch-up TV service had a peak of around two million views of full length TV shows and clips in January, down by 200,000 views from its peak in November.Full length TV… Continue reading iPlayer Outperforming ITV.com

Google has topped a list of the UK’s top 500 business brands, beating Microsoft and BBC Worldwide, according to the latest Superbrands annual report.Google, along with fellow internet giant eBay, is the only brand in the top 50 to have emerged after 1990.The list shows that media brands are having a greater impact than classical… Continue reading Google Named UK’s Top Business Brand

Worldwide sales of digital TV set-top boxes broke through the 100 million barrier for the first time in 2007, according to the latest research from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service.The report, Digital TV Set-Top Boxes: Global Market Forecast, found that sales reached 102.4 million units last year, an annual increase of 12%. IPTV’s… Continue reading Popularity Of Digital TV Reaches Record High

CBS Outdoor has extended its digital escalator panel coverage to two more tube stations as part of a £72 million investment in its London Underground advertising sites.Waterloo became the 12th station to feature DEPs this week (see New LCD Ad Screens Rolled Out On London Underground) with advertisers including BBC iPlayer, Air New Zealand, Match.com… Continue reading CBS Outdoor Extends Underground Digital Panels

Britain’s National Newspaper websites have seen a sharp rise in usage in January, according to the latest data released by ABCe. The figures not only see the nationals regain users after the traditional December slump but actually put most ahead of where they were in November, in terms of both unique users* and page impressions.Guardian… Continue reading National Newspaper Websites Recover From December Slump

Facebook has seen its UK monthly unique users figure fall by 5%, from 8.9 million visitors in December 2007, to 8.5 million in January 2008, according to Nielsen Online.This represents the first fall for the site, which is still ranked number one and has an audience 712% higher than it was a year ago.MySpace, ranked… Continue reading Facebook Sees First Drop In Unique Users

Owen Van Natta, Facebook’s chief revenue officer, will be leaving the company next month after a short tenure.Van Natta was instrumental in initiating two major deals with Microsoft, setting up an exclusive three-year advertising agreement and negotiating the software giant’s $240 million (£124 million) investment in the firm back in October.Van Natta told the Wall… Continue reading Senior Facebook Exec To Leave

Over 13 million analogue-only television households in the US are unprepared for switchover, and another six million have at least one set that won’t work after the analogue signal is switched off in February 2009, according to the Nielsen Company. For the past 18 months, the company has reviewed various components of the transition to… Continue reading Millions Unprepared For Analogue TV Switch Off In US

Up to 500,000 programmes are downloaded or streamed from the BBC’s iPlayer every day, and over 17 million have been streamed or downloaded on-demand in the application’s first seven weeks, according to new figures from the corporation.Daily volumes have been increasing strongly during January and February and last week the total number of streams and… Continue reading Over 17m Shows Downloaded On iPlayer This Year

BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to offer paid downloads of shows such as Life on Mars and Torchwood on iTunes.Around 10 series will be made available on the UK iTunes store at about £1.89 per episode. Viewers can then watch the shows on a Mac or PC, iPod with video, iPhone or Apple TV.“We… Continue reading BBC Shows Now On iTunes