30 Jul 2009
| by Sarah Johnson
LONDON - Chef and TV presenter James Martin is starring in a campaign to promote the BBC's iPlayer...series outside the usual BBC iPlayer seven-day window after broadcast. It also highlights its recommendation engine, which suggests a selection of other BBC programmes a user might enjoy. The ad, which was produced by Red Bee Media, launches in primetime slots across BBC One and BBC2 tomorrow and will run ...
14 Mar 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
Microsoft's Xbox will offer the BBC iPlayer from next week and is targeting parents by adding...playful learning elements. National Geographic and Disney are also content partners.
The BBC iPlayer ...
after the two companies resolved issues over charging for BBC content.
The BBC was announced as a ...
scheme.
The licence fee-funded iPlayer will now be offered for free, while other video content ...
03 Nov 2009
| by Becky Charles
LONDON - Freesat is to launch a new TV campaign at the weekend, ahead of the launch of BBC iPlayer...in the UK. Freesat has also announced it will become the first free-to-air broadcaster to carry the BBC iPlayer platform. Beta testing will begin in the coming weeks, with full roll-out expected over the next ...
31 Mar 2009
| by Sarah Johnson
LONDON - The BBC's fresh enthusiasm for online radio could help DAB out of limbo....that the BBC lead the creation of a platform for radio, similar to the iPlayer, that would offer both BBC ...
desperately needs. This hope rests on Tim Davie, the BBC's director of audio and music, and the delivery ...
the BBC's plan will actually have. Mandy Green, communications director at the Digital Development ...
01 May 2009
| by Sarah Johnson
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Virgin Media is the first TV platform to make BBC iPlayer available in full-screen picture quality, directly to its TV customers. The BBC content has been available through Virgin since May last year but previously HD content was not shown. The iPlayer has been ...
23 Feb 2009
| by Becky Wilkerson
LONDON - The BBC's plan to tie with ITV and BT to create a 'next generation Freeview.... It will be capable of bringing on-demand viewing to TV, which the BBC iPlayer and ITVPlayer provide largely to computers at present. This week, the BBC Trust will test whether the initiative is in the interest ...
, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide, which was blocked by the Competition Commission earlier this month after ...
24 Feb 2009
| by Sarah Johnson
LONDON - Given the turmoil that has enveloped the BBC in recent months, it might not perhaps seem...-demand service now vetoed, another high priority will be a fresh on-demand strategy to grow the BBC's iPlayer ...
As one former BBC marketing director says, the executive board-level position requires someone who ...
the BBC seems to have experienced more of the latter than the former. Indeed, the previous incumbent, Tim ...
19 Jan 2009
| by Fiona Ramsay
for 7 per month. Virgin Media recently launched BBC iPlayer on its on-demand TV service. ...
19 Aug 2011
| by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
VisitBritain, the national tourism board, has resumed its digital marketing activity with the BBC...VisitBritain has confirmed that digital ads for the 'You're Invited' campaign, which was pulled from the BBC's international news site and BBC iPlayer on 9 August, is back up and running.
The body ...
week that it was pulling the ads from the BBC channels as they were "no longer appropriate" while ...
12 Feb 2009
| by Fiona Ramsay
The broadcaster reported 516 million on-demand views in 2008, and nearly 100 million views for BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media since its launch in May. Virgin Media's TV platform now accounts for approximately one third of all BBC iPlayer views. The service received 56 million views in December alone, up from ...