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UKTV Play on Freeview Play

UKTV has announced it is further expanding the reach of its on-demand service, UKTV Play, by making it available on Freeview Play. Freeview Play, which launched in October, is a subscription-free service which combines catch up, on demand services and live television, and is available via TVs and set-top boxes. The UKTV Play app will […]

April 6, 2016

Sky Go adds SyFy, E!, Universal content

Sky is to add even more content to its mobile TV streaming service, Sky Go. Customer favourites from E! Entertainment Television, Syfy and Universal Channel will expand its Catch Up section effective immediately. Luke Bradley-Jones, Sky’s Brand Director of TV Products, commented: “We know customers like to make their own TV schedule to fit around […]

April 6, 2016

EE offers Recordings To Go

UK multi-play operator EE – now part of BT – has unveiled Recordings To Go, a feature designed to set new standards in how consumers access and watch the TV they love. Claiming a UK first, EE says that TV lovers can select content from any of EE TV’s 70+ free-to-view channels to record and […]

March 30, 2016By Colin Mann

Report: 70% US consumers binge watch

Has America become a marathon nation when it comes to video content consumption? Indications point to “yes”. Seventy per cent of US consumers now binge watch an average of five episodes at a time, and almost one-third (31 per cent) binge on a weekly basis according to Deloitte’s 10th Digital Democracy Survey. In addition to […]

March 24, 2016

Thinkbox: TV still dominates video consumption

The latest figures released by Thinkbox – the marketing body for commercial TV in the UK – show that the average TV viewer in the UK watched a total of 3 hours, 51 minutes of TV a day in 2015, 1 per cent less than in 2014 but 5 per cent more than in 2005. […]

March 10, 2016

ITV Hub, All 4 on Fire TV

ITV Hub and All 4, the free on-demand digital catch-up services from ITV and Channel 4, are now available for all versions of Amazon’s Fire TV. The availability of ITV Hub and All 4 means the complete Fire TV range now offers catch-up services from every one of the UK’s major broadcasters—with apps from the […]

March 8, 2016

iPlayer requests up across all devices in Jan

BBC iPlayer and BBC iPlayer Radio had 315 million TV and radio request in January, an increase of 2 per cent month on month. Overall, increases were seen across all devices, most notably on mobile devices. The increases across devices were mostly driven by radio requests, which increased by 15 per cent in January compared […]

March 3, 2016

Watching iPlayer to require TV licence

The BBC iPlayer TV licence loophole will be closed “as soon as practicable”, the Culture Secretary has confirmed. John Whittingdale said the licence fee, which currently applies only to live TV viewers, will be extended to those watching shows through the online catch-up service. Speaking at the Oxford Media Convention, Whittingdale said: “I will be […]

March 2, 2016

Online eats into traditional TV viewing

As an entertainment category, online video is thriving, offering viewers massive amounts of content, highly targeted genres and sub-genres, and bite-sized formats making it easy to watch on the go—all of which has made the category immensely popular with the types of young consumers advertisers covet, according to Hub Entertainment Research. Hub’s recently-released study – […]

February 26, 2016

TV Everywhere consumption shifting to connected devices

Although Apple’s iOS operating system still sees the bulk of TV Everywhere (TVE) authentications, analysis from Adobe Digital Index (ADI) shows TVE consumption slowly moving toward connected devices, such as Apple TV and Roku. According to ADI’s Q4 Digital Video Benchmark report, iOS share of TVE decreased 20 per cent year over year (YoY), while […]

February 26, 2016