13 Feb 2009
The backers of Project Kangaroo will not appeal against the closure of the proposed online TV
05 Feb 2009
| by Anne Cassidy
LONDON - The decision by the Competition Commission to block Project Kangaroo, the proposed online..., the chairman of the IPA Digital Media Group, said the ruling was a loss for digital media. "Kangaroo was held ...
that the Kangaroo joint venture, competing in a crowded online world against dominant global brands ...
16 Jan 2009
of the video-on-demand venture Kangaroo....Last month, the commission ruled that Kangaroo would launch with a
series of conditions to prevent the restriction of competition among VoD
services in the UK. In response to the commission's provisional report,
Virgin Media argued that Kangaroo would "dictate the form and structure"
of the market. The commission ...
15 Jan 2009
| by Anne Cassidy
LONDON - Kangaroo, the proposed video-on-demand service from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, has...to publish its final report on the venture by 8 February. Last month, the body ruled that Kangaroo, which ...
. Kangaroo's hunt for a media agency was narrowed down to five last week. The shortlisted agencies ...
09 Jan 2009
Project Kangaroo, the video-on-demand venture, has cost ITV and
Channel 4 £30 million in 2008, according to a report. The broadcasters, facing a bill of £15 million each, should
consider pulling out of the venture, the study by Enders Analysis
argued. It estimates that the service, which is still to win ...
03 Dec 2008
| by Ian Darby
Kangaroo video-on-demand service after ruling that its launch will stifle competition....Its main concern is that Kangaroo will lead to a loss of rivalry between BBC Worldwide, ITV ...
. However, the CC took the view that Kangaroo would not lead to a "substantial lessening of competition" in the advertising market. This is likely to mean that Kangaroo can launch with its proposition of being funded ...
14 Nov 2008
Ashley Highfield, the chief executive of the planned video-on-demand service Kangaroo, is quitting
10 Nov 2008
| by Ian Darby
LONDON - Ashley Highfield, the chief executive of the Project Kangaroo video-on-demand venture...at Microsoft. Rob Henwood, the lead regulatory adviser at Kangaroo and former new business director of Channel 4, has been appointed interim chief executive of Project Kangaroo. Highfield had joined Project Kangaroo - a proposed joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 - from the BBC, where he ...
07 Nov 2008
Should advertisers be reassured by Kangaroo's model, Alasdair Reid asks...., but
on Kangaroo, a joint venture bringing together ITV, Channel 4 and the
BBC - but dominated by the latter ...
Commission - and last week Kangaroo attempted to forestall worries that
it was setting up a commercial cartel ...
. There were also other revelations - for instance, that Kangaroo will
aspire to a mixed funding model ...
30 Oct 2008
| by Ian Darby
LONDON - The backers of the Project Kangaroo video-on-demand product have promised to deliver a...View Kangaroo's submission to the Cometition Commission Kangaroo is a joint venture between BBC ...
advertising on the site will be sold centrally by Kangaroo. There will also be areas of paid-for content ...
-fee funding continues to increase while it's moving into new commercial ventures." View Kangaroo ...