UKTV, the independent television network co-owned by BBC Worldwide and Scripps Networks International, has signed a major deal with TalkTalk to carry all of its branded channels and selected video-on-demand programmes on TalkTalk’s YouView platform.TalkTalk subscribers will have access to all of UKTV’s pay TV channels via the TalkTalk Player, joining Sky and Virgin which… Continue reading UKTV signs major deal with TalkTalk’s new YouView service
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The Consumer Electronics Market in Great Britain fell by -5.6% in value comparing June 2012 with June 2011, claims GfK Retail and Technology UK. Whilst this is disappointing, the year on year value fall is -14%, so this small drop can be seen as a considerable lessening of decline.This uplift in the Total CE market was… Continue reading Consumer electronics market still falling
Facebook has announced that 8.7% of its 955m global users are duplicate accounts. A large proportion of those being pages created for pets and those designed for spam.In March, when Facebook last gave an estimate of the number of fake or duplicate accounts, it said the proportion was in the region of 5% or 6%,… Continue reading Facebook admits 83 million profiles are fake
As GB’s athletes triumphed, viewers couldn’t get enough of the Olympics on BBC One. Once again, the Olympics dominated TV viewing figures throughout the day with a peak audience of 9.2 million at 9pm (38.7% of the audience share).The News at Six signaled a one hour break on BBC One as 5.6 million switched over… Continue reading TV Overnights: GB’s gold rush draws in the viewers
FreeWheel, the video technology company that manages the economics of content for the enterprise-class world of entertainment, today announced its ad management technology, Monetization Rights Management (MRM), will be powering the video and display advertising operations of Channel 4.The multi-year agreement with FreeWheel enables Channel 4 to consolidate their ad operations for Channel 4, E4… Continue reading FreeWheel expands UK footprint with Channel 4 deal
The video games industry across the USA and Western Europe will witness steady growth through to 2015, reaching $15.7 billion and €10.2 billion respectively in total retail value, according to a new Console, Handheld and PC Gaming report from Futuresource Consulting.Across both regions, the packaged games market will start to witness a slow decline in… Continue reading Video Games Industry Driven by Online as Digital Delivery Comes to the Fore
Spending on mobile internet advertising in the US will top all other countries in the world for the first time this year, helping drive mobile ad spending worldwide to $6.43 billion in 2012, show figures released by eMarketer.
Stacey Pratt, head of radio branded content at MediaCom, says commercial needs to work harder to grow it’s hours on digital-only stations to contend with the BBC’s offering…
In an attempt to boost readers, Time Out London is to become a free magazine. Cutting its price from £3.25 it hopes to increase circulation from 55,000 to a targeted 300,000 a week.Time Out will join a group of magazines and newspapers which have already taken similar steps to rejuvenate the industry. To make up… Continue reading Time Out to become a free London magazine
The National Readership Survey has developed a series of infographics, the first of which (below) details the readership of newspapers and magazines on tablets and e-readers.
