Called Promoted Videos in the UK a new advertising service from You Tube will use AdWords to allow advertisers to create a campaign that is keyword-targeted and priced on performance. Similar to sponsored links on Google, advertisers will only pay for an ad when a user clicks on it. Advertisers will also be able to […]

An IMS Research study has revealed that nearly 13 per cent of total worldwide IP set-top box shipments in 2008 were operator deployed IP+DTT STBs. Of the 1.6 million IP+DTT STBs deployed, 87 per cent of shipments went to Western European TV households. The study says "Uptake of operator deployed IP+DTT STBs has been popular […]

Richard Halton, the Director of Project Canvas, blogged his response to Sky's objections. "Central to the thinking behind project Canvas is that we can create an open platform for the next generation of internet-connected TV devices, and by open, we mean that all content owners, internet service providers and device manufacturers can get involved… Sky’s […]

Close to half a million football fans watched the England v Ukraine World Cup qualifier last weekend making it easily the UK's largest PPV online event. A post match survey found that an average of 87 per cent felt the picture quality was satisfactory or better and 93 per cent were satisfied with the customer […]

Philippine telco PLDT has announced the launch of a new IPTV service dubbed Watchpad. Existing subscribers to the company's myDSL broadband service will receive the TV over DSL offering for free. Initial channels available include National Geographic, Cartoon Network, Pinoy Box Office, CNN, Animax Mobile, CNBC and GMA 7. PLDT customer sales and marketing group […]

British Sky Broadcasting has accused the BBC of "riding a coach and horses" through the market for internet TV by investing licence-fee money in Project Canvas. The BBC and its partners, ITV, BT and Five, say Canvas will bolster the free-to-air TV platform Freeview as Sky, Virgin Media and other pay-TV providers launch more advanced […]

The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) has published the Profiles specification for its Release 1 Solution. This specification is accompanied by a revision (Version 1.1) of its seven-volume Release 1 IPTV Solution specification, originally published in January 2009. All OIPF specifications are freely available for download from the Publications section of the Forum website www.oipf.tv. The […]

YouTube is close to a deal with Channel 4 that will lead to the majority of the broadcaster's content being available on the site. Like the recent deal with IPC, Channel 4 is being granted the rights to sell its own advertising around the content and share the revenues with YouTube. Such a deal would […]

According to The Diffusion Group, new TV Everywhere (TVE) efforts will face stiff competition from Over-the-Top (OTT) providers set on pushing Internet video beyond the PC to the TV and mobile devices. TDG, says both the TV Everywhere initiatives of incumbent PayTV operators such as Time Warner Cable, and the web-based OTT video services of […]

comScore said that in August YouTube surpassed 10 billion views in a single month in the United States , now on the third anniversary of its $1.65 billion deal with Google, YouTube has released more precise viewing figures than it had in the past, saying it serves more than 1 billion videos a day or […]