blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, has announced that a blinkx app is now available on Sony Internet-enabled home entertainment devices. Consumers can now watch videos from blinkx’s extensive index of professionally produced content on a variety of customised channels. The blinkx app for Sony gives customers immediate access to blinkx’s index of premium content through 18 distinct video [...]
Shazam-enabled advertising during ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent marked a major milestone for interactive adverts in the UK. Around 50,000 viewers used the Shazam App to tag the Pepsi MAX and Cadbury ads in just 60 seconds of airtime during special ad breaks in Saturday’s final. Fans of the show who had Shazam on their smartphones were able to enter contests [...]
Sony has signed a deal to bring a new BBC Sport app to the Sony Entertainment Network, with coverage starting in time for next month’s Wimbledon tennis tournament. The app will be available on both PlayStation 3 and Bravia televisions. According to Sony the new app will provide ‘exciting new television content over and above that available on free-to-air television’, [...]
UK’s ITV and Shazam, the media discovery company, have confirmed the UK’s first Shazam-enabled ads will feature in the Britain’s Got Talent Final on Saturday 12th May. Following on from the partnership announced last month, which saw ITV become the exclusive UK distributor for Shazam functionality in UK broadcast advertising, ITV has signed up Pepsi MAX and Cadbury as the [...]
Orange’s new social TV app, TVcheck, is now available to download from the UK Apple App Store for iPhones. The free app provides a new way to enhance the live TV experience with social and gaming tools. The app works with 25 free-to-air channels in the UK, including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. During any programme on [...]
Google Play, the app store formerly known as the Android Market, has reached a major app download milestone – having hit the 15th billion download. Apple is still ahead of Android when it comes to app downloads, having hit the 25 billion mark back in March. Apple crested through the 15 billion download milestone, back in July last year.
Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has extended its on demand subscription TV service, Premium Play, on the iPad, initially available on Wi-Fi and later also for 3G. The application can be downloaded for free from the App Store and will permit access to live TV content, as well as to library and on demand material. Premium Play was previously available on [...]
Flingo, the largest publisher of Smart TV apps, has received funding from entrepreneur Mark Cuban, founder of Broadcast.com, chairman of HDNet, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures. Cuban and Gary Lauder, managing director of Lauder Partners LLC, lead the additional investment to bring Flingo’s Series A funding total to $8 million. In February, the company [...]
Accedo and maxdome, a German VoD provider, have announced a partnership to develop next generation SmartTV apps for multiple platforms. The first official app being developed under the partnership will be the Panasonic VieraConnect application. The application, which gives viewers access to a vast catalogue of 45,000 video titles, including films, series, comedy shows, documentaries, music, children’s programmes, and many [...]
Belgacom has confirmed it will extend its TV Everywhere from May 1st. Three new channels – VT4, VIJFtv and Ketnet – will bring the total available to 24, The service, branded TV Overal, is available over Wi-Fi at home and outdoors through the FON network or through 3G (with one free hour per month). In anticipation of the commercial launch, [...]
