Smartclip, the German interactive video network backed by Endemol founder Joop van den Ende, has launched in the UK as it aims to take a chunk of the online video ad market. The network is designed to allow TV and online planners to buy pre-roll campaigns around professional content through more simple processes. It's currently […]

Boxer DTT, the Swedish consortium that is 50 per cent owned by Denis O'Brien's Communicorp group, has abandoned its plans to provide DTT under the contracts it was awarded by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland last July. Its decision to pull out means that a consortium comprising TV3, Eircom and Setanta Sports will be offered […]

Consumers are increasingly watching television content on multiple platforms, contributing to the fragmentation of the traditional viewing experience, according to findings from Accenture's second annual Global Broadcast Consumer Survey. Although the consumption of broadcast television content continues to grow, viewers are adapting quickly to new choices that change how, when and where they watch programming. […]

India's pay-television industry is facing a shake-out amid intense competition during the recession according to a report by Media Partners Asia (MPA). "All of the players have to rationalise their costs because advertising sales and subscriptions are falling," said Vivek Couto, executive director at MPA. India has been a standout market in Asia for pay-TV […]

From Colin Mann in Las Vegas At NAB Adobe has announced a deal to put its Flash software into many of the chips that go inside TVs and set-top boxes. This will enable developers and content providers to create applications to deliver web-based content to TV screens. Flash will be included on chips made by […]

TiVo plans to begin this summer to provide anonymous, second-by-second ratings data for programmes and commercials airing in local U.S. markets, which the company says will provide greater granularity than current ratings samples from Nielsen and other measurement firms. The new “StopWatch Local Markets” service will only launch in a handful of markets–at least three, […]

Wikipedia has become the latest publisher to block Phorm from tracking users across its portfolio of sites. A company statement said: "The Wikimedia Foundation requests that our websites, including Wikipedia.org and all related domains, be excluded from scanning by the Phorm / BT Webwise system, as we consider the scanning and profiling of our visitors' […]

If current growth trends continue, the Internet will overtake traditional TV as the most consumed form of media for the first time in June 2010. Internet consumption in 2010 will average 14.2 hours per week, or over 2.5 days a month, compared to 11.5 hours a week, or 2 days a month, for TV, according […]

According to Entertainment Trends In America, a tracking study conducted by market research company The NPD Group, most consumers plan to hold steady or increase their entertainment spending in 2009. According to the NPD report, 75 per cent of consumers surveyed said they will spend the same amount or more on digital music downloads as […]

Broadband households in Europe and the US consistently rank primetime anytime VOD services as the most valuable service out of all TV 2.0 offerings, according to the Parks Associates report 'Television Services: The Global Outlook'. The international research firm says that primetime anytime services, which allow viewers to watch a show on-demand on their TV […]