With a new tool for assigning personality profiles based on Facebook posts, a startup called Five is trying to demonstrate the types of inferences companies can make about consumers. The company hopes it will spur desire for a more-private alternative to today's very public platforms.…
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Videoplaza Raises $12 Million For Its Multiscreen Video Ad Platform
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here's ano……
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The much-delayed video-on-demand service YouView spent almost £20 ($30.89)m in its first nine months of operation and paid more than £1 ($……
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In the copyright case brought by UK broadcasters against the TV Catchup restreaming site, a UK High Court judge has handed the site some som……
Read MoreSquawk! Angry Birds/Fruit Ninja ‘Rip-Off’ Reaches Number-One In App Store
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this may be stretching the expression a bit too far. Cut the Birds, a game release……
Read MoreBBC iPlayer Out-Linking Is More Difficult Than First Thought
It's eight months since the BBC said it would link from out its iPlayer to commercial counterparts' own TV catch-up sites. But it still hasn……
Read MoreIn Online TV Re-Streaming, UK’s TVCatchup Dealt A Legal Blow
A High Court judge has dismissed an application by UK TV re-streaming site TVCatchup to throw out a copyright case brought against it by Bri……
Read MoreAuditude Will Manage Channel Five’s Online Video Ads
Palo Alto-based web video advertising analytics firm Auditude says it has been given the contract to manage ads in to in-flux Channel Five's……
Read MoreChannel 5 Rejoining Project Canvas JV
As expected, the newly renamed Channel 5 is rejoining Project Canvas as a stakeholder. Five had pulled out earlier this summer as owner RTL……
Read MoreWhy Five’s Exit Won’t Hurt Project Canvas Or The BBC
Five's decision to no longer be an equity partner in the Canvas joint venture will save the broadcaster £16.5 million - and will mean very……
Read MoreFive Bails From Canvas As Bertelsmann Looks For Sale
By Mark Sweney: Five has pulled out of Project Canvas, the BBC-backed venture to bring video-on-demand to Freeview and Freesat. Five, which……
Read MoreITV, C4, Five Jointly File In Court Against TVCatchup, Who’s Next?
We've covered TV re-streaming services like Zattoo and TVCatchup for the last couple of years now and, regardless of any opinions those serv……
Read MoreProject Canvas Clears OFT Scrutiny In Strange Ruling
The Office of Fair Trading has taken two months to rule that... it is not supposed to investigate the BBC's proposed Project Canvas connecte……
Read MoreBroadband Content Bits: CNBC On Livestation, EC Market, Spotify, Five VOD
-- CNBC on Livestation: The freemium live TV news aggregator app and website is adding CNBC to its subscription service, cost:…
Read MoreIs Hulu Backing Off From a UK Launch?
Hulu is abandoning its plans for a launch in the UK — that’s the latest from the Telegraph on the U.S.-based online…
Read MoreBroadband Content Bits: BBC Introducing, Jobsite, Demand Five, Last.fm
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Channel Five Signs Online Video Deal with CBS; Channel Five has signed a deal with CBS to make its programming available on…
Read MoreCBS’ TV.com Aims For UK With Five VOD Deal
By Chris Tryhorn: UK broadcaster Five has signed a deal with CBS (NYSE: CBS) to make programmes available on the US network's on-demand vide……
Read MoreBroadband Content Bits: Five VOD Contract, Spotify Priorities, Come Dine With Me
-- Five: The broadcaster is tasking Red Bee Media with managing all its Demand Five VOD services, including transcoding, distribution, syndi……
Read MoreHulu Still M.I.A. In UK As Rival SeeSaw Opens Doors
Telegraph.co.uk's sources have been promising the paper Hulu's imminent UK launch for so long now that, now it's reporting "further delays"……
Read MoreCould the UK’s Project Canvas Help Out OTT Video in the US?
The BBC Trust today gave the provisional go-ahead for the BBC’s Project Canvas, opening the way for more Internet video being delivered…
Read MoreVOD Arm’s Race: C4, TalkTalk Join Canvas; C4, Five Mounting SeeSaw?
BBC's IPTV director Richard Halton now has C4 and TalkTalk to add to his Project Canvas partners BBC, ITV (LSE: ITV), Five and BT (NYSE: BT)……
Read MoreYouTube Lands Five’s Shows, A Win For Its VOD Ambition
YouTube UK is now adding long-form shows from Five to those it acquired in October from Channel 4, giving it a big advantage as it ramps up……
Read MoreLots of Nearly Live TV Now Available Free to UK iPhone Users
TV on the iPhone isn’t anything new, but a new web site makes it much easier, more direct, and less expensive for…
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