Leveraging blinkx's patented video search technology, blinkx Remote filters out video spam, illegal clips, and inappropriate material that has been falsely tagged and will find only full length, legally available, episodes of TV programmes. blinkx does not have partnership deals with broadcasters to operate the service, but uses publicly available programme data in the same […]

US network CBS says it has found streaming full-length episodes of primetime series is mostly additive for the broadcast networks and does little to threaten TV viewing. According to a report issued by CBS Interactive, less than half of the network’s online audience (46 per cent) primarily view shows online, and most say that the […]

TiVo is to offer thousands of its subscribers the ability to stream YouTube videos onto their television sets through their broadband-enabled TiVo boxes. It’s TiVo’s first deal for streaming online content, though the company has partnerships with 60 Internet sites that provide content to TiVo. Unlike with those relationships, TiVo users won’t be able to […]

Amazon is introducing a new online store of TV shows and movies. Users of Amazon Video on Demand will be able to start streaming any of 40,000 movies and television programmes immediately after ordering them.Amazon has also struck a deal with electronics giant Sony to place its Internet video store on the Sony Bravia line […]

Facebook and ITV.com were the only major websites other than YouTube to significantly increase their share of the UK’s web video market over the past year.Both Facebook and ITV.com launched new video offerings over the year to the end of May, growing their market share from a very low base to create a monthly audience […]

Sony has begun offering a video-downloading service for its PlayStation 3 video games console, part of its aim to broaden its audience and grab a piece of the growing content-downloading market. The launch also reflects the push by Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer to get its business units to work more closely with one another.Sony […]

Google has struck a deal to protect the personal data of millions of YouTube users in the $1 billion copyright court case brought against the video-sharing website by Viacom. Under the deal, Google will make user information and IP addresses from its YouTube subsidiary anonymous before handing over the data to Viacom in the US […]

Although consumers are increasingly prepared to have some form of pay-TV in their household, getting more consumers to order and then regularly view pay per view (PPV) or video on demand (VOD) remains a key challenge for service providers, according to a recent survey by Gartner. In the fourth quarter of 2007, Gartner surveyed 5,800 […]

Top Up TV, provider of content on Freeview, has inked a strategic agreement with Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) to offer new entertainment on-demand to Top Up TV Anytime subscribers through Warner TV, a VOD channel. Programmes from Warner TV are available immediately. In addition, Top Up TV and Warner Bros have agreed terms […]