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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.

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.

Harnessing the spirit of Victorian adventure, Route’s James Whitmore recently set off to Romania for the annual conference of the European Media Research Organisation. So what did he discover from our European neighbours? Ground is, thankfully, still being broken but audience measurement continues to face some serious challenges…

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.

Despite past concerns, Freesheets today have a lot going for them argues Tim Carr, director and head of international at adconnection. They travel far and wide, attract new – and multiple – readers, and with the right online offering can lead people towards workable ‘freemium’ content…