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Kinetic Worldwide, one of the global leaders of planning and buying Out of Home media, has announced the appointment of Stuart Taylor as CEO for the UK.

Figures published by the British Video Association show a massive rise of 49% in viewers’ spend on digital video entertainment during 2012. With over 40 digital services available offering a range of options for consumers to download and stream video entertainment on connected devices, the digital market is now estimated by IHS Screen Digest to… Continue reading Digital video spend soars as screens get connected

In its final weekend before the major rebrand, Coronation Street, Mr. Selfridge and Dancing on Ice all helped ITV1 steer a clear path to victory

ITV’s rebrand goes live today – across all five ITV channels in the UK, six ITV Studios production offices around the world, and ITV Studios distribution arm, ITV Studios Global Entertainment.

There has been much online speculation over the last week about a “major announcement” from Facebook, due later today. Could it really be a search engine to rival Google?

Media management company Red Bee Media has announced a multi-year deal with Samsung to provide rich metadata services for Samsung’s new range of Smart TVs across 13 European countries.The deal will see Red Bee Media provide rich EPG content, including localised programme descriptions and images, to power content discovery for over 2,500 channels in 23… Continue reading Red Bee to provide rich metadata for Samsung Smart TVs

According to Strategy Analytics’ estimates, 2% of UK homes can now be classified as ‘smart’ and revenues from related hardware, services and installation fees will exceed $0.5B in 2012 and grow to over $1.5B by 2017.The market for smart home systems and services in the UK is poised for growth and is set to become… Continue reading 2% of UK homes classified ‘smart’

In an effort to brighten up your Thursday night, the BBC last night rolled out the 16^th series of Silent Witness (BBC One, 9pm) specifically for those whose January blues were getting the better of them.

In the last 100 days we have seen amazing new devices bought by millions of people – with the ‘old’ devices expanding the total reach of smartphones. In the US it’s estimated that 40% of homes now have tablets; wondering what will be the next big tablet seems less useful than writing a strategy to get your brand onto the tablets already out there.

Sir Martin Sorrell’s advertising clients are heading back to Channel 4 after both sides reached a deal today.