BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
The BBC is developing a radical scheme under which UK viewers would pay to download new and old BBC TV shows from a service it hopes will co…
Updated: BBC Worldwide Re-Jigs Digital Leadership After Jones Joined Sky
BBC Worldwide is aiming to more closely unify its various web brands, after BBC.com’s managing director Luke Bradley-Jones left in January.
Lovefilm Adding More ITV, BBC Worldwide Archive TV
Amazon’s Lovefilm is extending existing deals with ITV (LSE: ITV) and BBC Worldwide to gain a larger catalogue of their shows for online str…
Strictly Dance Costumes Cost Girls £5.95 A Month On Stardoll
BBC Worldwide is exploiting the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing With The Stars) through a premium partnership with Stardoll, the vir…
BBC iPlayer App’s iPhone Update Adds 500K New Users In A Week
The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as i…
TV Traction: BBC Gets Comcast Leap, Al Jazeera Relies On Online
Two of the biggest global news brands are gaining a bigger U.S. foothold – but, while one has finally broken in to the TV mainstream, the ot…
Lonely Planet’s Mobile Travel Startup Launches, With Content From Rivals
Lonely Planet’s new San Francisco-based mobile startup has gone live with its flagship mobile travel guide app Wenzani, which paidContent fi…
BBC Cuts: Digital To Get £40 Million Annual ‘Innovation Fund’
Today’s big round of cuts announced by the BBC — it will lose some 2,000 jobs, order relocations for others, and make big changes to the pr…
Industry Moves: MSN UK, BBC.com, HuffPo Staff Up On Content; And More
— MSN UK: Former BBC News interactive head Pete Clifton, who is now MSN UK’s exec producer, is hiring BBC Wales’ social media editor Darren…
Australia Next For BBC’s Paid iPlayer, U.S. At Some Point
The UK’s leading TV catch-up brand is having a weird global launch. After debuting on iPad only in 11 European countries this July for €6.…