02 Dec 2008
| by Emma Barnett
LONDON - Ads around Kangaroo, the planned on-demand online service from BBC Worldwide, ITV...According to media agency sources present at Kangaroo presentations over recent weeks, ITV and Channel 4's website inventories will be sold alongside their content on Kangaroo. One agency's head ...
-dependently with Kangaroo, but it is unclear how exactly that model will work. It is thought, however, that they will start ...
10 Nov 2008
| by Emma Barnett
LONDON - Ashley Highfield, the chief executive of Project Kangaroo, the VoD joint venture between..., chief financial officer. Henwood is currently the lead regulatory adviser for Kangaroo. Highfield left his former role as BBC director of future media and technology to start as Kangaroo's chief executive ...
statement, Ben McOwen Wilson, chairman of Project Kangaroo, said: "We would like to thank Ashley for leading ...
08 Jan 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
VoD venture Kangaroo to be prohibited from launching....into Kangaroo last month all called for the planned venture to be shelved. Last month, the commission ruled that Kangaroo would restrict competition and added that it intends to bind the venture to a series of conditions, before clearing its launch. In a statement that left the launch prospects of Kangaroo in the balance ...
04 Feb 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
LONDON - Project Kangaroo, the planned VoD venture from BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 has been...-competitive. The CC said that there were no remedies, such as forcing Kangaroo to share its content with rival ...
that it considered a combination of measures aimed at removing Kangaroo's ability to wholesale its content ...
that by not coming together to form Kangaroo, viewers would benefit from better VoD services as the broadcasters ...
11 Nov 2008
| by Emma Barnett
LONDON - Ashley Highfield's departure from the helm of Kangaroo, only four months after he joined...operation. According to a senior digital sales executive, Highfield and his team at Vodco, Kangaroo ...
was expecting to have in that position," they explained. Kangaroo was initially planned for launch earlier this year, but at the behest of independent producers concerned over Kangaroo's dominance of the nascent VoD ...
03 Dec 2008
| by Tristan O'Carroll
LONDON - The Competition Commission has ruled that Kangaroo would restrict competition...of Kangaroo in the balance, the CC, publishing its provisional findings today, said that the planned VoD ...
lessening" of competition in the supply of UK TV VoD content. However, in a boost to Kangaroo's backers the CC concluded that Kangaroo would not lessen competition in online advertising or content acquisition ...
04 Feb 2009
| by Emma Barnett
LONDON - BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 could still use parts of planned VoD venture Kangaroo...Commission spokesman said the legal agreement that parties have to sign to prohibit Kangaroo still needs ...
concerns." Meanwhile, up to 50 staff at Kangaroo are set to lose their jobs as a result of the CC ruling ...
04 Feb 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
the Competition Commission's decision to block Project Kangaroo from launch....be anti-competitive. Grade said that ITV was "surprised" by the decision as it believed Kangaroo ...
will provide an update on its online plans on 4 March. Kangaroo was to play a big part in ITV s plans ...
by the end of 2012. Meanwhile, in a joint statement, Kangaroo's backers, BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 ...
22 Jul 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
bidder for the sought-after technology behind the now defunct Project Kangaroo on-demand platform....of Kangaroo, ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide. The three broadcasters are among its biggest customers. ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide had planned to launch Project Kangaroo this year. However, its launch ...
and Project Kangaroo declined to comment. ...
23 Jul 2009
| by Tristan O'Carroll
LONDON - Arqiva has confirmed it is buying the technology assets of Project Kangaroo, the now...developed for the Project Kangaroo service. Arqiva said it plans to use the Project Kangaroo platform assets to launch a new video-on-demand service to UK consumers in the coming months. Project Kangaroo ...
of the six UK digital terrestrial TV multiplexes. Arqiva is no stranger to the shareholders of Kangaroo ...