The BBC iPlayer catch-up service may be at the pinnacle of streaming services, but it could be even better, according to the BBC. The service could provide a superior streaming service using targeted rolling content said John Tate, BBC director of policy and strategy. Speaking at a recent Westminster Media Forum,  he said, “The service [...]

The BBC have announced a landmark partnership deal with Sky that will bring the BBC’s VoD service iPlayer into the homes of five million Sky customers this year. Later this year BBC’s iPlayer will become accessible to Sky customers on their home TV sets. Using BBC’s iPlayer, viewers can catch-up on BBC programmes in the [...]

The BBC’s iPlayer catch-up TV service has enjoyed it’s biggest ever audience figures in December (up 29% from 2010), with the huge jump in requests from not from computers, but connected devices such as connected TV sets, tablets and smartphones. The BBC have revealed that for the month of December, they received 187 million views [...]

BBC Worldwide yesterday revealed that a global release of their BBC iPlayer app is set to roll out on Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch by the end of this week, with the public service broadcaster following on from the release of a subscription-based tablet version in July. That release, called ‘Global iPlayer’, offered subscription-based BBC content originally to users in [...]

With the BBC maintaining an online content presence on regional versions of Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii consoles, it has been clear for some time that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been absent from that list, with the two parties reluctant to come to an agreement for hosting the public service broadcaster’s catch-up content on [...]

In the past week, a new iPad app has been released to users for free allowing for greater social connectivity whilst watching their favourite shows, with the new programme the brainchild of the man who oversaw the development of the BBC iPlayer. The app, which is also compatible with web browsers, is known as Zeebox, [...]