Forget trying to celebrate yet another ‘year of mobile’ says Videology Group’s Anne de Kerckhove, and in 2013 raise your glass to the year of cross device consumption.
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July saw 12.3 million viewers tune in to the Wimbledon Men’s Final to see Murray’s historic win, as the birth of a future king sparked a news battle between ITV and the BBC – one of the rare occasions when the commercial channel came out on top.
In contrast to June’s figures, commercial television channels in July saw an overall rise in yearly revenues, with Total Terrestrial up 12.1% to £145,200,000.
It was a clash of the grim and gritty later on as ITV’s third series premier of Vera (8pm) went head to head with BBC One’s new four part drama What Remains (9pm). The ITV show staring Brenda Blethyn as yet another maverick detective did get a head start on its two hour investigation.
Following AOL’s purchase of Adap.tv, along with fresh viewing figures from Thinkbox, it’s plain to see that video on demand is growing, says Dominic Mills – though achingly slowly – and live TV certainly retains an iron grip on our viewing habits for now.
New TV viewing figures from Thinkbox for the first half of 2013 show how people’s television habits are changing as on-demand TV viewing becomes a more established part of people’s lives.
This week Simon Andrews, founder of Addictive!, examines the evolution of TV and video – looking at the new thinking and experimentation being driven by the proliferation of new devices and consumer behaviours.
Mobile phones now account for almost a fifth of all web usage across the globe, according to new research from Statista – with European mobile web usage increasing by almost 4% year on year.
Speaking at the 2013 Edinburgh International Television Festival, Spacey said that shows such as Breaking Bad and The Sopranos were “inescapable evidence that the King of television is the creative”, and that “revolutionary programming” must be kept alive.
5.9 million viewers tuned in at 8pm to see Paddy and Rhona’s marriage go supernova, resulting in a 33% share. As expected, the second episode of Emmerdale was down slightly, with the audience falling to 5.8 million viewers.
