New research conducted by YouGov demonstrates that smartphones and tablets still haven’t quite taken off when it comes to streaming on demand.
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New research from Screen Digest reveals Smart-TV sales will hit 141 million sets by 2015, and 173 million the year after, accounting for almost two-thirds of the world’s television total.
Gangnam Style, which has just surpassed the 1.3 billion views milestone on YouTube has an equally weird follower: the Harlem Shake. With over 17 million views in just two weeks, it’s quickly shaping up as a worthy successor – so as it continues to trend, Havas Media’s Matt Breen looks at the power of YouTube and the increasing impact of video consumerism.
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that ratings company Nielsen is to roll out a new system to measure broadband, Xbox and, eventually, iPads – redefining the definition of TV.
Thursday night’s prime time viewing kicked off with an action-packed hour-long special of Emmerdale (ITV) which saw troubled old dear Edna Birch deal with some embarrassing damp issues.Elsewhere, Charity Dingle, ever the professional, threw in a spot of sexual intercourse while negotiating her contract with Home Farm overlord Declan Macey. Slipping in the sinful goings… Continue reading TV Overnights: A night of soap sleaze brings in Thursday’s biggest hits for BBC and ITV
Virgin Media has announced the launch of a YouTube app for their TiVo customers, the first to ever be launched in a TV Guide.
Last November, MediaTel joined forces with Yahoo! and Flickr to launch the ‘Celebration of a Nation’ photography competition, announcing Adam Cherry as the winner with his photo of two patriotic women awaiting the Olympic Torch. However it turns out that not everybody was happy on that great British day…
Some of the biggest Disney movies will have their UK TV premiere on a new Sky channel, Sky Movies Disney, as part of a major deal between BSkyB and the Hollywood studio.
Fans of easy-to-digest content were in for a thrilling afternoon on BBC One – not only was the saccharine glory of The One Show (BBC One, 7pm) on offer but this was followed by the mind-numbing propaganda of Holiday Hit Squad.The flagship channel’s prime time chat show offered up some quality hard-hitting natter in the… Continue reading TV Overnights: Corden’s ‘cheeky’ BRITs nets 7m for ITV
The outlook for global marketers is continuing to improve, according to the latest data from Warc’s Global Marketing Index. However, Europe, while showing improvement, was less optimistic than the other measured regions, with the headline GMI increasing 1.2 points to 53.1 in February.
