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Streaming video apps are the most popular apps for both Smart TV owners and consumers who don’t yet have a Smart TV, according to polls conducted by Harris Interactive.Polls also revealed the three, top five “must have” apps are Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Instant Video, Facebook and online radio leader Pandor.The results also suggested three-quarters of… Continue reading Netflix and YouTube are Must Have Apps for Smart TV Owners

comScore, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that more than 180 million U.S. Internet users watched 33 billion online content videos in June. Video advertising reached another all-time high in June as 11 billion video ads were viewed.Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique ViewersGoogle Sites, driven primarily by YouTube, ranked… Continue reading comScore Releases June 2012 U.S. Online Video Rankings

Roku has announced it has received $45 million in a new strategic investment from News Corporation, BSkyB, prior Roku venture investors Menlo Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners as well as an unnamed strategic investor. The new relationships include both financial backing and business agreements.The investment will be used to build further brand awareness through advertising,… Continue reading Roku Raises $45 Million from News Corporation, BSkyB and Others

UKTV, the independent television network co-owned by BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks International, has signed a major deal with TalkTalk to carry all of its branded channels and selected video-on-demand programmes on TalkTalk’s YouView platform.TalkTalk subscribers will have access to all of UKTV’s pay TV channels via the TalkTalk Player, joining Sky and Virgin which… Continue reading UKTV signs major deal with TalkTalk’s new YouView service

The Consumer Electronics Market in Great Britain fell by -5.6% in value comparing June 2012 with June 2011, claims GfK Retail and Technology UK. Whilst this is disappointing, the year on year value fall is -14%, so this small drop can be seen as a considerable lessening of decline.This uplift in the Total CE market was… Continue reading Consumer electronics market still falling

Facebook has announced that 8.7% of its 955m global users are duplicate accounts. A large proportion of those being pages created for pets and those designed for spam.In March, when Facebook last gave an estimate of the number of fake or duplicate accounts, it said the proportion was in the region of 5% or 6%,… Continue reading Facebook admits 83 million profiles are fake

As GB’s athletes triumphed, viewers couldn’t get enough of the Olympics on BBC One. Once again, the Olympics dominated TV viewing figures throughout the day with a peak audience of 9.2 million at 9pm (38.7% of the audience share).The News at Six signaled a one hour break on BBC One as 5.6 million switched over… Continue reading TV Overnights: GB’s gold rush draws in the viewers

FreeWheel, the video technology company that manages the economics of content for the enterprise-class world of entertainment, today announced its ad management technology, Monetization Rights Management (MRM), will be powering the video and display advertising operations of Channel 4.The multi-year agreement with FreeWheel enables Channel 4 to consolidate their ad operations for Channel 4, E4… Continue reading FreeWheel expands UK footprint with Channel 4 deal

The video games industry across the USA and Western Europe will witness steady growth through to 2015, reaching $15.7 billion and €10.2 billion respectively in total retail value, according to a new Console, Handheld and PC Gaming report from Futuresource Consulting.Across both regions, the packaged games market will start to witness a slow decline in… Continue reading Video Games Industry Driven by Online as Digital Delivery Comes to the Fore

Spending on mobile internet advertising in the US will top all other countries in the world for the first time this year, helping drive mobile ad spending worldwide to $6.43 billion in 2012, show figures released by eMarketer.