Discovery Networks UK will showcase the exclusive premiere of Discovery Channel flagship show 'Chop Shop: London Garage' on its online video service Discovery On Demand, four days ahead of the TV premiere. The Discovery On Demand premiere will be supported by a multi-platform brand campaign running on-air, on-line and on-mobile. The initiative underscores Discovery's move […]
ndependent production and distribution company Off the Fence has partnered with Joost, the broadcast-quality Internet television service, to launch two new channels via their online platform – 'Off the Fence Go Wild' and 'Off the Fence Explore'. The channels will air a schedule of wildlife programming and science documentaries.
blinkx, the online video search engine, has formed a partnership with CelebTV.com, the real-time entertainment video news channel created for, and distributed exclusively on, digital platforms. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will transcribe and index video content from CelebTV.com.
TIOTI ('Tape it off the Internet'), the media aggregator has opened its one-stop source for TV content – www.tioti.com – to the general public. Following its successful beta-testing of the service with more than 18,000 users, TIOTI has made its search gateway to TV content available to everyone, providing links to a wide range of […]
News Corp owned social networking site MySpace will launch sponsored video channels in the UK next month that will include advertising. MySpace has opted to experiment with placing advertising next to professionally-produced content rather than the user-generated content around which it built up its audience.
Microsoft has revealed details about its new 'Extenders' for Microsoft Windows Media Centre. These devices, which are expected to be available for purchase before the end of the year, will allow easy access to premium cable, high-definition TV, popular video formats including DivX, music, paid movies, photos from any TV in the house, with a […]
To cater to what it believes is the short attention span of online audiences, the CBS network is launching CBS EyeLab, a digital-production studio that will create and distribute short clips cut together from the network’s most popular shows. At a time when its competitors are focused on how to best distribute full-length TV shows […]
FOX news and Maven Networks, an Internet-TV-platform company, are teaming up on a new broadband-video-distribution system for the news network. Fox News will roll out Maven's technology company wide: All video content on Fox News Web sites, including FOXnews.com and the Web site for the upcoming FOX business network, will run on Maven's platform.
The number of paying users of online video sites has grown significantly between 2006 and 2007, new research from Parks Associates indicates. “Broadband Video: A Market Update” finds that the number of broadband households paying for online video content now stands at nearly 12 million, up from a little more than three million in 2005-2006. […]
ITV has awarded a contract to streaming media specialist Limelight Networks to deliver the broadcaster’s programming to viewers online. Limelight will supply its content delivery network (CDN) solution to ITV.com’s free-to-view catch-up TV service. The solution limits access to UK-based viewers while DRM software prevents content copying and sharing.