Archive for August, 2009

Time Warner and Verizon To Start Internet TV Trials

Time Warner and Verizon have announced that they are going to start issuing trials of Internet TV for existing subscribers as part of the ‘TV Everywhere’ project. This will allow subscribers to view television shows streamed from the internet where ever they are. Most TV shows will be shown online around the time of originally [...]

Online TV And Video Viewing Figures Rocket

Watching Online TV and video is exploding with massive increases in viewers according to Comscore. The viewing figures for online streams soared to new heights last month (July), with over 158 million Americans(over 80% of the population) watched 21.4 billion videos in July setting a new record.
Although watching online tv has been growing for some [...]

ITV Close To Signing A Deal With Hulu But May Delay UK Launch

ITV, the largest free to air network in the UK is allegedly only weeks away from signing a deal with Catch up tv giant Hulu, allowing the US tv on demand website, to syndicate itv’s content in exchange for equity in the company, according to UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
Hulu, owned by General Electric Co, [...]

Channel 4 and ITV Online TV Revenue Soaring

UK television networks ITV and Channel 4 are making some serious cash from their online services and are predicted to rake in around £75m in advertising revenue from their online TV services by 2013. So says a report by analyst Screen Digest.

They are forecasting that ITV.com will see a growing return from current advertising [...]

Youtube And Time Warner Deal Means Cartoon Network and Adult Swim Streams

In its ongoing mission to move away from funny videos and become compete with young upstart Hulu, YouTube have agreed a deal with Time Warner allowing the video giant to stream Time Warner shows. The deal is the latest to bring professional content to YouTube. that’ll have it gaining some very popular, professionally produced content.
An [...]

Blinkx Traffic Soars and Joins The Top Ten Video Sites On The Web

Visitor numbers to online video aggregator blinkx have risen recently, so much so that it has jumped into the online video top ten list according to a recent Nielsen report of video usage in the US Ranked by video streams watched during July 2009, also included are top sites such as YouTube, Yahoo!, MSN, MTV, [...]

Microsoft TV Catch Up Player Streams 170,000 Shows During First Days

The new TV Online player launched by Microsoft has had an impressive launch. Showing close to 170,000 views of popular TV shows including Shameless, Peep Show and The Young Ones during its first 11 days since the launch.
Released to the UK market on August 3rd, the MSN Video Player on 3rd August. The launch was [...]

Youtube Gets The Google Makeover

Google owned Youtube has had a crafty makeover and the site has revealed a new homepage. The site appears to have taken on some of the appearance of its big brother Google, with a sleeker less cluttered design and the main buttons becoming simple links. And a bigger search box.

Google blogged about the changes:-
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