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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.

Saturday’s epic karaoke action kicked off at 8pm on ITV and immediately set itself apart from all the other weekend offerings – by actually pulling in an audience of note.

The invasive-cameras-on-the-wall documentary pulled in a 13% share and Channel’s biggest audience of the day. Nice to know someone is winning from this set-up.

BARB, the UK provider of TV viewing figures, is now reporting time-shift data that reveal how TV viewing builds in the four weeks following broadcast – offering a more complete view of programme reach.

Despite the event-feel to last night’s proceedings the E20 aggression was the nation’s third most popular soap, having been beaten by ITV’s rural offering Emmerdale.

As the BBC sinks into yet another crisis, the future of the BBC Trust remains in the balance. Should it simply be put out of its misery? The answer from Raymond Snoddy is an emphatic no.

Netflix, home to House of Cards, Arrested Development and Breaking Bad, has signed a deal to see it offered on a pay-TV platform for the first time.

49% of 18-24 year-olds living at home with their parents said that they felt ‘highly inclined’ to sign up for an online subscription video service once they move out on their own, compared to 31% that said they would sign up for a traditional pay-TV service.

ITV4 has been home to the Tour De France for UK viewers since 2002 and under the new agreement the channel’s coverage will continue until the end of the decade.