Ingrid Lunden
Feb 1, 2012 3:00 AM
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 25, 2012 6:30 PM
For many news sites, Facebook has become one of the biggest sources of referral traffic to its stories, and today the social network revealed some numbers that underscored how it is continuing to build up its cred as a news aggregator: it says it now has “thousands” of journalists using…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 24, 2012 6:33 AM
Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 19, 2012 5:15 AM
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 16, 2012 10:22 AM
Last week’s CES event brought a clutch of announcements around interactive TV services—specifically around more content getting pushed to devices. That points to growing attention to the medium: will advertising follow?
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 13, 2012 7:35 AM
Twitter looks like it is ramping up its staffing and operations in the UK: today it was announced that the company will be making a new hire, Lewis Wiltshire, who oversees social media for BBC Sport. The loss is a keen one for the BBC: among Wiltshire’s responsibilities, he was…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 9, 2012 1:14 PM
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though international roll-out losses are set to exceed $70 million this quarter alone, CEO Reed Hastings tells paidContent.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 8, 2012 7:57 PM
News Corp-controlled pay-TV firm BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is buying itself a foothold in the looming social TV field by acquiring 10 percent of the startup Zeebox for a sum that is “double-digit millions” in both pounds and dollars.
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 5, 2012 5:08 AM
When the News Corporation-controlled UK satellite broadcaster Sky launched a free iPad app for its Sky Sports News channel in September 2010, some wondered if it would also start to offer a paid version of the product. Well, it’s taken 15 months, but it’s happened.
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Robert Andrews
Jan 4, 2012 11:35 AM
News reports (Mail Online, Telegraph.co.uk) that *Apple* and *Google* may bid for 2013-16 Premier League live broadcast rights are almost certainly wide of the post.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 29, 2011 10:01 AM
When you consider the internet, on-demand services, games consoles, mobiles, apps and [fill in your personal favorite here], we have more ways than ever before to watch TV content whenever and however we want. But despite the growth of services like Hulu, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), it…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 26, 2011 1:12 PM
FilmOn, the premium-content internet streaming site that met controversy earlier this year over lawsuits involving CBS (NYSE: CBS), CNET, and copyright, is expanding its line up, adding two new sports channels for NCAA Basketball and NCAA Football.
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 23, 2011 6:04 PM
Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a series of key content deals, the streaming service looks like it could also be missing out on some of the most popular local TV…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 21, 2011 12:07 PM
More scrutiny of News Corporation’s UK tabloids by Ofcom… but this time with a good result for the media company. The UK communications regulator has ruled in favor of The Sun newspaper and determined that video on the news site should not be regulated as video-on-demand. The decision is wide-ranging…
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Richard Adams
The Guardian
Dec 20, 2011 4:51 PM
If CNN wants an incisive big-name interviewer, it should consider hiring Robert Jay QC, who put Piers Morgan through a far tougher interview than Morgan has managed on his primetime show on CNN.
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Louis Gray
louisgray.com
Dec 20, 2011 1:40 PM
Nearly three short years ago, the buzz word du jour in tech was “realtime”. Real time discovery. Real time search. Real time serendipity. The explosion of interest in social sharing tools like Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed (remember this was early 2009) had people (myself included) saying that “Delayed news will…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 19, 2011 6:37 AM
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, an investor in media titans News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), is turning his attention now to social media: he and his investment group, Kingdom Holding Company, today became the latest investors in Twitter, putting up $300…
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Ingrid Lunden
Dec 8, 2011 6:05 AM
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video - but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social network, it remains mostly a gateway to video hosted elsewhere.
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Mark Sweney
MediaGuardian
Nov 3, 2011 7:14 AM
BT (NYSE: BT) Vision has become the fastest-growing pay-TV service in the UK, adding more customers in a quarter than BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for the first time since launching more than four years ago.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 28, 2011 3:34 AM
The TV engagement product co-founded by ex BBC iPlayer chief Anthony Rose launched on Thursday evening to ride the booming trend in two-screen social TV interaction.
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