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Blinkbox claims that its autumn content offering has ten times the number of latest blockbuster films than Netflix and LoveFilm.

Grinning boffin Brian Cox returned to the prime time schedules last night, armed with his unique brand of vocal harmonies and seemingly gormless enthusiasm.

DR, Denmark’s small public service broadcaster, has produced monster hits including The Killing, Borgen and The Bridge. Raymond Snoddy asks how they have pulled this off – and after hearing the organisation’s director of cultural affairs talk at IBC in Amsterdam, finds the answers are both extreme and surprising.

A combination of original programming and price is driving the rapid adoption of Netflix, according to analyst Richard Greenfield.

After a rough few week EastEnders (BBC One, 7pm) gathered its strength back and pulled itself past its Yorkshire rival.

It’s been suggested that separate broadcaster players such as 4OD and iPlayer may soon become surplus to requirements – that viewers will want ‘one stop shops’ for catch up and VOD. Research the Media’s Richard Marks argues the case for a hybrid future, where broadcasters have not totally surrendered control over the means of their own distribution.

In the current market place, there are no comprehensive standards to which media owners and measurement providers alike have to adhere when publishing view on Demand data, says Joe Lewis, project director at BARB. So what do we do to ensure we get it?

This week’s slice of the comfortable and familiar netted a 32% share and beat EastEnders for a third week in a row, in a race to be the third most watched show of the day.

From today, ITV’s interactive VoD ad format, Ad Explore, is to be updated for ITV Player audiences, with the new format launching with Thinkbox’s ‘Harvey and Rabbit’ campaign.

Strategy Analytics predicts that OTT global spending will reach $4.7 billion in 2018, concentrated in North America and Western Europe.