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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.

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.

Celebrated football broadcasters Danny Baker and Danny Kelly have agreed to reform their on-off broadcasting partnership to front a lively football show for BT Sport.

In addition to key Shazam features such as unlimited tagging, the Windows Phone 8 app will allow users to purchase tracks from Xbox music and track local activity.

Decipher’s MediaBug report has revealed that in homes in which both a Smart TV and VOD enabled set top box are present, almost three quarters choose to access catch up TV through their set top box.

Motorola’s electronic tattoo – or ‘biostamp’ – is attached to the skin and features an antenna and a handful of sensors to offer high security and ultra-fast authentication with personal devices.

The US market has lost approximately 80,000 subscribers over the past year, evidencing a definite trend of cord cutting.