As Mobile World Congress closes for another year, Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive!, rounds-up the key take-outs – and explores some of the new opportunities.
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Performing much better was the bite-sized slice of Mockney ruckus at 7:30pm as the day’s biggest audience tuned in to see the newly-returned Stacey Slater and some bloke from Busted shout at each other. A lot.
The latest financial results for Virgin Media’s TiVo reveal that global subscriptions were up 34% year on year to reach 4.2 million.
Martin Sorrell’s group saw an 18.7% leap, beating French rival Publicis, which was up 8.8% to £900 million.
Following a competitive tender for the rights, the new two-year contract, starting in September 2015, will see BT Sport show around 115 live matches a season – 15 more than the current deal.
The director general of the BBC mounts a strong defence of the £145 annual licence fee, as he calls for it to be extended to include people watching content via iPlayer.
BT has today added Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, British Eurosport and British Eurosport 2 to its high definition TV line-up.
Wednesday evening brought viewers the second to last ever episode of contemporary family sitcom Outnumbered (well, apart from the numerous specials we’ll no doubt be subjected to over many Christmases) at 9pm on BBC One.
Amazon has commissioned Ripper Street a third season to appear on its Prime Instant Video service, following the BBC’s cancellation of the show in December due to poor ratings.
The parent company of the UK’s IPC Media has merged its worldwide digital properties into a single global exchange that will launch on Google’s programmatic platform.
