Amazon Prime Instant Video and Viacom have announced a video licensing deal that will see Amazon add thousands of episodes from Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., MTV and COMEDY CENTRAL—including a collection of unique subscription TV shows.
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BBC Three’s latest groundbreaking use of the televisual medium came in the form of cringe-soaked documentary The Call Centre (9pm).
While Netflix’s recent foray into original programming has generated at lot of positive PR, the business case for them to effectively become a studio has yet to be made, argues Shaun Austin, Director at YouGov Media. Netflix – and others – would be better off spending money investing in getting TV series into their catalogues sooner and providing customers with the current content they want to see. Until then, that remains with TV.
The UK’s online population witnessed a slight decrease in April, down by just over half a million users month on month.
What is it with Monday nights and traumatising programming? Sky Atlantic’s genre-busting epic Game of Thrones (9pm) made sure that last night was no exception.
New panellists for MediaTel’s Connected Consumer Conference have been announced, including experts from BSkyB, Channel 4, Decipher, Mindshare, Videology, BARB and ITV.
Micro video app Vine has been launched on Android after 13 million downloads of the IOS version.
YouView is set to add internet channels to its service this summer, which will allow broadcast TV channels to be received via a broadband connection that will open up the service to a theoretically limitless number of live channels.
Trinity Mirror today announced the appointment of Sue Douglas as publishing director and Rupert Howell as chairman of Sunday Brands, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trinity Mirror, with responsibility for The Sunday People and a host of regional titles.
Global Radio has announced the appointment James Hickman, former product development director of The Perform Group, as its new director of digital.
