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Alex Street

BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Introducing the all new BBC iPlayer (This time it's personal) - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 18 Nov 10 - Cached
  • simpler to use, personalised and social.
  • iPlayer V2,
  • main problems we had to solve were largely technical things like:
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  • Twitterverse is becoming the tastemaker.
  • available i
  • ideo quality
  • reliability of video delivery
  • dealing with massive peak loads
  • iPlayer V2 hosting platform was also designed to scale across multiple platforms
  • Actual Availability,
  • scaling to 1.5 million users,
  • 15 million page views delivering over 1.1 billion(!) minutes of video each month
  • Two years ago when we launched iPlayer our goals and challenges were largely technical - scalability, reliability, video encoding
  • next set of challenges was not so much technical as social
  • "As people begin moving from television to the web, what happens to the role of the linear TV scheduler as the tastemaker
  • platform capable
  • the scheduler is the leading tastemaker.
  • iPlayer does a fine job of satisfying the time-shifted desires
  • BBC schedulers create the desire to watch a programme; iPlayer lets you see it at a time that's convenient to you
  • what if you no longer watched linear TV? Who becomes the tastemaker then?
  • largely theoretical problem
  • iPlayer home page that feels almost more like an application than a traditional web site
  • in the world of YouTube where there is no master scheduler who can shape demand.
  • clear evidence that linear TV created the demand while iPlayer satisfied it.
  • wanted it to become a driver of demand, s
  • The question then is, in a world which cannot be driven by schedulers
  • if schedulers are going to be augmented by your friends as drivers of consumption in the future, the challenge for the team was to integrate friends and social into the iPlayer
  • delights both early adopters and the mainstream audience.
  • folded your personal experience into the fabric of the main site
  • o integrate with Facebook and other social networks
  • make the recommendations and social graph visible within iPlayer,
  • addition of course to any external activity.
  • solution we came up with was to create a BBC login - known as BBC iD
  • can then connect with Facebook, Twitter
  • expandable Favourites zone
  • designed Favourites to be like your mail Inbox, showing the total number of items, how many are newly arrived,
  • rely on Favourites to give me a constant stream of things to watch
  • ll your favourites and other settings can roam across all the devices on which you use iPlayer.
  • So now if I'm bored sitting in a train on the way home, I can look for new programmes to watch, add them to my Favourites,
  • Personalised iPlayer home page
  • default view that everyone sees to something that's, well, just for you.
  • iPlayer traffic is doubling each year, it still only accounts for 2-3% of linear TV viewing.
  • Featured and Most Popular
  • For You and Friends:
  • iPlayer homepage into the tastemaker of your choice
  • connect iPlayer to your Facebook and/or Twitter social graph
  • Player home page to meet the needs of a mainstream audience looking for editorialised
  • My Categories
  • he iPlayer server will keep a lookout for any new content in your selected categories
  • big increase in live TV viewing in iPlayer - and with the upcoming World Cup being a huge driver of live online viewing
  • new Live Viewing page
  • fuel for the Friends drawer on the iPlayer home page
  • something that for some will be the killer feature of the new site
  • sync your iPlayer with theirs
  • Shout button - a
  • shouts only go to your Messenger friends who are in iPlayer right now
  • Watch with Friends is being added to the site in the next few weeks - stay tuned!
  • adaptive bitrate system
  • ch automatically adjusts
  • Adobe's upcoming Flash 10.1 release with H.264 hardware acceleratio
  • New iPlayer Desktop
  • Series Downloads and live radio & TV.
  • favourite programmes already downloaded to your computer ready to view when you're offline
  • Player Desktop will now automatically download every future episode for you
  • new feature in iPlayer Desktop for live TV
  • BBC's 17 network and national radio stations..
  • I am moving on to become CTO of Project Canvas, and this is the last major piece of work
Alex Street

Non-linear TV's long haul | Broadband TV News - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 12 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • 8% of the total in the UK in 2010 and set to rise to around 13% by 2015.
  • non-linear viewing figure in the UK in 2010 compared to nearly 10% in the US, 6% in Germany, 4% in France and around 2% in Italy and Spain
  • By 2015, these figures should rise to nearly 16% in the US, 10% in France, 8% in Germany and around 5% in Spain and Italy.
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  • Furthermore there were 14 billion views of VOD content via pay-TV services worldwide in 2010, 9 billion of which were in the US alone. 600 million long-form online videos were viewed in France and 5 billion via DVR time shifting in the UK.
Alex Street

comScore Releases August 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings - comScore, Inc - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 19 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • average of 18 hours per viewer
  • content in August
  • Total U.S. –
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  • 788,315
  • Hulu generating the highest number of video ad impressions at 996 million.
  • Specific Media**
  • % Reach Total U.S. Population
  • 162 million unique viewer
  • average viewer watched 18 hours of online video content during the course of the mon
  • Google Sites (5.7 hours) and Hulu (3.2 hours
  • 2.5 billion minutes during the month,
  • Video ads reached 50 percent of the total U.S. population an average of 37.6 times during the month.
  • duration of the average online content video was 5.3 minutes
  • 1.3 percent of all minutes spent viewing video online.
David Astle

Most Sky TV customers now connected to On Demand - 1 views

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shared by David Astle on 18 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • On Demand viewing accounted for more than 5% of viewing in connected homes - equivalent to the third most popular linear channel in those homes.
  • In less than a year, the total number of connected Sky+HD boxes has more than doubled to 5.4 million, equivalent to 56,000 new households getting connected every week. This explosive growth means that more than 50% of Sky’s 10.6m TV customers are now connected, stretching Sky’s lead as Britain’s most popular connected TV platform.
Alex Street

P&F 2011 Broadband Outlook Examines Over the Top Video vs Pay TV services | The Viodi View - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The year-end total of high-speed Internet households will near 82 million, representing 70% of total U.S. households.”
Alex Street

eReader Forecast - 0 views

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  • total 6.6 million units i
  • 11 million units
Alex Street

MediaTel: Newsline: MGEITF 2010: Canvas bows down to Google TV - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • product is primarily a navigation device.
  • esearch consistently shows that audiences don't actually want this kind of clutter on their TV screen.
  • people are actually resistant to convergence on this scale
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  • Google's main aim for this initially is to create more search revenue
  • no monetisation of programme searching
  • ternet browser;
  • er different formats for viewers and different ways to monetise content.
  • emand is still less than 8% of total TV viewing
  • 'RIP Scheduled TV?'
  • o from Google's Jill Szuchmacher,
Alex Street

US subscription TV posts another quarterly subscriber loss - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 06 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • able operators in contrast have continued to churn record numbers of basic subs having lost 700,000 subscribers in Q3 and 760,780 in Q
  • e companies have been losing half a million subscriber
  • During the same period, cable operators kept moving their existing analog customers to high-ARPU digital packages at healthy rate
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  • PTV and satellite sectors compensated for churned cable subscribers (and more) by netting over 770,000 new subscribers per quarter
  • the total number of TV subscriptions grew by almost two million subscribers since Q3 2008, and the growth in digital cable subscriptions increased the sector's video ARPU by a healthy 7 per cent.
  • y did subscription TV households shrink since 1 April, 2010
  • churn contagion has reached the digital side
  • digital growth seems to be slowing down for most other cable operators as well
  • They collectively added 380,000 digital subs in Q3 2010, down from 636,000 in Q2 and 860,000 in Q1
  • reduced digital subscriber growth rates in the near future or even net losses.
  • ge (in basic or digital subscriptions alike) has been blamed on macroeconomic weakness.
  • Providers insist that they have not seen evidence of 'cord-cutting'
  • ite' TV packages, like the one being launched by TWC, are meant to counter the adverse impact of the economy by making subscription TV affordable
  • confirmed that these losses have been caused, not by higher than usual gross churn rates, but by historically low demand for new connections.
  • ative of 'cord-abstinence' whereby younger, more tech-savvy households forgo subscription T
  • h the long-term decline in cable continuing. A
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Alex Street

Sky Player - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Sky Player is available to all 9.5million Sky customer
  • 700% increase in users
  • h Xbox viewers making up 65% of Sky Player total programme views
Alex Street

ZTE base station market share climbs into world's top four - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • n 2009, 325,000 BTS (base transceiver station) units were deployed in China, accounting for some 1/3 of the total base stations deployed worldwide
Alex Street

BBC - Research and Development: Orchestrated Media - Beyond second and third screen - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 28 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Orchestrated Media” t
  • consumers are adding video consumption platforms (mobile, Internet) to their weekly viewing schedule, rather than replacing TV,
  • 2.7% of the total TV time per month involved simultaneous Internet access
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  • 7% of the respondents frequently engaged online with content related to the TV show or advertisement
Alex Street

F1 Television viewing figures rise once again - Forum - F1technical.net - 0 views

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shared by Alex Street on 12 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • f 520 million for 2009 increasing to 527 million in 2010. In total, 16,000 hours of Formula 1 was broadcast across some 187 countries last yea
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