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The primary apps used by connected TV viewers are catch-up services, YouTube and other video-on-demand portals, according to research from Futuresource Consulting. The findings showed that viewers also engaged with Facebook, Twitter, eBay and Skype.

Aereo, the exclusively New York-based internet television streaming service, has recently been getting the backs up of quite a few major players in the TV industry.

With two weeks to go until the London 2012 Olympics begin, the BBC has released its Olympic app for iPhones and Android smartphones.

A report by Videoplaza, entitled “The Future of TV” has revealed that media owners are risking the possibility of missing out on growth by not monetising advertising across connected devices.

YouGov has named BBC iPlayer as the top-rated brand in its 2012 BrandIndex Buzz rankings, the video-on-demand service surpassing Amazon and Marks & Spencer for the first time in the rankings.

LG has partnered with multi screen brand advertising platform smartclip with the aim of creating new revenue streams from advertising on the company’s Smart TV platform.

According to reports from Gigaom, Roku is preparing for launches in both Germany and Spain.

Chuck Parker, chairman at Second Screen Society and digital media executive at Digital Video Space Consulting has blogged about the Second Screen, debating whether it is just a fad or the natural evolution of TV for an increasing technologically savvy demographic

A report from Transparency Market Research has predicted that the global market for mobile content will rise to a total value of $18.6 billion by 2017.

Netflix recently announced that it had reached and in fact gone beyond one billion hours of streamed content. This raised a host of different views from media commentators, with a strand of thought emerging that digital could capitalise on the four to five slot of the five hours individuals spend on average watching TV.