28 Apr 2009
BBC iPlayer is expanding its offering with the addition of high-definition content from the BBC HD
08 Apr 2008
| by Steve Eltringham, Creative Director, WAA
Pigs might fly! Why not? Penguins can. It is true - after days of filming, the BBC caught on camera...'t be on your TV any time soon. Instead, the BBC has executed a slick stunt to promote its iPlayer
service ...
the BBC, with authentically high production
values that had me fished in. The iPlayer end line, 'Making ...
of Evolution natural history series on BBC
Breakfast. It certainly grabbed my attention. But here's the rub ...
04 Mar 2008
| by Gareth Jones
LONDON - The headline-grabbing success of the BBC's on-demand service has left its rivals playing...The BBC is trouncing its commercial rivals in the nascent on-demand TV market, with its iPlayer ...
to establish an on-demand audience for their programmes in one of two ways. Either the success of BBC iPlayer ...
shows they ve missed, or BBC iPlayer will dominate the field, taking viewers away from commercial ...
17 Jun 2008
The launch of BBC's iPlayer has been awarded the prestigious Marketing Moment of the Year accolade...The award, voted for by attendees of the Marketing Society Awards
dinner, reflects the unprecedented success of the BBC's broadband
catch-up TV service. Since it launched last year, it has received ...
hitting 716,000, a record for a two-week period. The iPlayer launch beat off competition from Facebook ...
10 Nov 2009
BBC iPlayer is to launch a beta service on Freesat. Testing on the free-to-air digital satellite TV
07 Nov 2008
| by Alison Donnelly
LONDON - BBC is planning to expand its iPlayer service internationnally and open up the technology...distribution, the BBC's director of future media and technology, Erik Huggers, said that he would like to unblock the access to the iPlayer for international users. The internet is, by definition, a global medium, yet today we are artificially blocking international access to the iPlayer. That's a problem ...
05 Aug 2008
The BBC's iPlayer is believed to have been a key driver, with 56% of
those surveyed saying they had watched non-subscription video content
online in the past 12 months. Improved image quality also played its part, with 73% saying they were
satisfied with it. Channel 4's 4oD service was cited ...
20 Oct 2008
| by Fiona Ramsay
LONDON - Sky Player, Sky's online TV service, is the latest platform to carry BBC's iPlayer video...The new version of Sky Player, recently rebranded from Sky Anytime, includes a series of BBC branded sections, with listings information and links to all TV programmes on the BBC iPlayer service ...
programme to view, they will be transferred to the BBC iPlayer site for video playback. BBC iPlayer offers ...
07 May 2008
BBC iPlayer has launched on Virgin Media, allowing the platform's 3.5m viewers to catch up
08 Jul 2008
| by Alison Donnelly
LONDON - The BBC is continuing to expand its iPlayer service by allowing clips from its TV shows...-party sites. The development follows a series of wider changes to the latest version of iPlayer, which went live recently. According to Rose, a mobile version of the iPlayer, which is currently available only ...
the brand to a wider audience. Last month, the launch of the iPlayer was named Marketing Moment of the Year ...