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 ...
15 Apr 2008
| by Ben Bold
LONDON - Kangaroo is gearing up for a possible August launch with the appointment of Zygos...of BBC online chief Ashley Highfield as Kangaroo s chief executive. The commercial director ...
will host individually branded areas on Kangaroo when it launches, the homepage will offer users a central access point where they can select content by genre. It is on this landing page that Kangaroo will sell ...
30 Jun 2008
| by Fiona Ramsay
LONDON - The Office of Fair Trading has referred Kangaroo, the proposed joint venture VoD service...The move means that the launch of Kangaroo will be unlikely to take place this year as originally intended. The Competition Commission has until 12 December to consider the case and to collect evidence ...
, such as the syndication of content rights to third parties, would dominate the VoD market. Rivals to the Kangaroo service ...
08 Aug 2008
| by Maisie McCabe
investigation into Kangaroo, the planned joint VoD service from ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide....it is investigating. It aims to find out if the planned Kangaroo service will cause competition issues in the online video market. It also wants to determine the impact of Kangaroo on ad rates, pricing and range ...
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 ...
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 ...
13 Jan 2009
| by Arif Durrani
LONDON - Video-on-demand service Kangaroo is believed to have whittled its hunt for a media agency.... Kangaroo's backers, which hope to offer both free-to-view ad-supported content as well as paid ...
of competition" in the UK VoD market. Its push to appoint a media agency could signal Kangaroo management ...
into Kangaroo in December, Virgin Media, as well as online VoD services Babelgum and Joost, have called ...
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 ...
07 Dec 2007
Will Kangaroo confound its critics and prove a success, Alasdair Reid asks....its story on the launch of Kangaroo with a
picture of Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder mode. Naturally, yes, Blackadder
is a classic BBC programme, and, yes, of course, the BBC is a
participant in Kangaroo ...
reasons why the big newspaper
publishers might want to subvert (however subtly) a project like
Kangaroo ...
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 ...