A recent report from Nielsen claims that game consoles increase the amount of time young men spend in front of the TV, helping rebalance the gender divide.
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Finally, something other than the soaps captured Friday’s biggest audience! Also, fans of over-long, bombastic and superfluous talent shows were in for a real treat and Homeland returned with a second series of hyber-paranoid fun.
The Future Foundation’s James Murphy and Richard Nicholls on how the disappearance of devices and furnishings re-defines human space and re-shapes buying behaviour.
A report by Credit Suisse, which looks into the current state of Europe’s satellite industry, predicts that broadcasters in the US and Europe will begin broadcasting Ultra HD test channels by 2013.The report states that Ultra HD (commonly known as 4K, due to the 4,000 pixel resolution display – double the amount of current HD) would… Continue reading Broadcasters could launch Ultra HDTV test channels ‘next year’
BBC One came out blazing in the battle for Thursday’s 9pm slot with a heavily publicised new series. Last night saw the launch of hyber-paranoid espionage thriller Hunted, starring Angel from Home & Away.The plot saw Samantha return to work at a private intelligence agency, after an attempt on her life by members of her… Continue reading TV Overnights: BBC One’s Hunted uppercuts 4.5m in to submission
The global market of services on connected TVs will reach USD $3.23 billion in 2016, according to new research from GII (Global Information). This market will represent 16.8% of the OTT video market and about 1% of the global fixed video services market.
Speaking at Apps World this week, Daniel Danker, general manager, on-demand at the BBC, claims the corporation has been contrasting the effort involved in achieving reach and views on BBC iPlayer on connected TV devices versus the Apple iPad.
MediaTel’s Connected Consumer business manager, Anne Tucker, gives her take on the new second screen content, which provides video commentary alongside traditional broadcast programming…
The last episode in the series of Mrs Biggs (9pm), saw a combined ITV1 and ITV1 hd audience of nearly 3.9 million viewers.
Mercedes Benz is running an advertising campaign this weekend where TV viewers can control the story line using Twitter.
