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Sasha Roupell

Sky Store brings 1000+ on-demand movies to Sky Anytime+ | whathifi.com - 0 views

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Sky Anytime+ PPV prices movies collection

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  • Sasha Roupell on 31 May 12
     
    Sky Store brings 1000+ on-demand movies to Sky Anytime+ 8 Mar 2012 Sky has expanded its pay-per-view movie offering for customers with Sky Anytime+. The new Sky Store replaces Sky Box Office and has over 1000 films available to watch on-demand. SD movies start at just 99p, rising to £3.99 for blockbuster new movies in HD. Sky also confirmed that Sky Anytime+ will be available to all Sky customers from Easter - a Sky Broadband subscription will no longer be required. Sky Anytime+ delivers a wide range of on-demand content for free as well as offering pay-per-view films. Sky is at pains to point out that its pay-per-view movies, via the new Sky Store if you're an Anytime+ customer, are cheaper than iTunes and Lovefilm in many instances. New releases are £3.49, library movies are £1.99 and special offers are 99p. HD films rather than SD will cost 50p more. Sky Box Office will continue as the place for non-Sky Anytime+ customers to choose from a more limited range of the latest movies on the live channels from £3.49 per title. All Sky TV customers meanwhile can rent movies on a pay-per-view basis from the new Sky Store on laptops via the Sky Go application, which already has a Sky Movies application, too.
Alex Street

Remodelling the agency relationship for the 3.0 age | In-Depth Analysis | Marketing Week - 0 views

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brandedentertainment agencies

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  • always on’, 24/7 digital world demands a fresh appr
  • gencies to be “always on
  • “Agencies have to understand that brands are ‘always
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  • digital age has also encouraged marketers to gravitate towards full-service agencies
  • We are moving to a world of full-service again because increasingly the agencies that make the difference are the ones with quality planners that are truly media neutra
  • boutiques have to own a space of pure creativity
  • lients set agencies specific targets based around their business objectives
  • There does seem to be a bias within ad agencies towards either a need to make great TV films or to offer you a creative digital response to a brief even if you have not asked for it
  • Remuneration models, agency structure and how they integrate with other agencies is in a state of flux and agencie
  • cost and scale might rule a marketer’s head
  • Dubit and Kids
  • arger traditional agencies tend to concentrate on “high profile, shock-tactic campaigns for big charities just to get noticed
  • Guided Collective’s model
  • eid has developed an alternative “collaborative mode
  • 200 independent consultants who are
  • The Next Door agenc
  • ingle-agency P&L
  • WPP’s Ogilvy Mather’s Ogilvy Noor division, which specialises in Islamic branding and marketing
  • 80% of those surveyed feel that digital agencies are too fragmented and specialised an
Alex Street

Mobile Sales Fall While Smartphone Sales Rise, says Informa | - 0 views

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mobile mobiletrends brainstorm

shared by Alex Street on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • How will device vendors differentiate themselves? What is User Experience? What are the most suitable Open Source licensing models for mobile handset software? How to succeed in an Open Source world How to make money with Open Source The challenges and risks of Open Source What are the major trends in mobile handset OS? Which OS platforms will be the most popular in 2009 and in 2013? What strategies are being adopted by the leading handset vendors? What does this mean? What is the future for proprietary OS? What mobile OS strategies are operators adopting?
  • n 2008, there were almost 162 million Smartphones sold, surpassing notebook sales for the first time. Just over 49% of Smartphones sold in 2008 were based on Symbian OS, a significant drop from a near 65% share it enjoyed one year earlier. While this is in large part due to the relatively poor performance of Nokias Smartphone range, it is also an indication of the popularity enjoyed by competing platforms including Linux, BlackBerry OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, OS X iPhone and new entrant Android.
  • Openness is a key criterion, says Informa, while all in the mobile telecoms space now see the revenue potential of applications and services.
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  • Informa notes also that as more and more value moves from device hardware to software, and also to content, developers are becoming increasingly central to the mobile handset value chain
  • open source components and approaches
David Astle

New Media Knowledge - TV Gets Social: How Broadcasters are Building Loyal Fanbases Online - 0 views

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TV Broadcast SocialMedia BBC Channel4 ITV

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  • David Astle on 10 Aug 11
     
    TV Gets Social: How Broadcasters are Building Loyal Fanbases Online
Alex Street

Telmex turns down deal with Dish on pay-TV | News | Rapid TV News - 0 views

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telmex dishtv

shared by Alex Street on 07 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • he business we are doing in this respect is not ours. We only invoice and get paid for third party's services for its video services in our telephone invoice,” the company said.
  • Alex Street on 07 Dec 11
     
    The business we are doing in this respect is not ours. We only invoice and get paid for third party's services for its video services in our telephone invoice," the company said
Alex Street

iMedia Connection: - What drives the premium iPad experience? - 0 views

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bfi inapp apps ipad

shared by Alex Street on 25 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • 116 iPad users, 204 iPhone users, and 601 users of the Droid or any other smartphone
  • iPad users buy more apps in almost every ca
  • five times more likely to use subscription apps
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  • iPad users pay $30 for magazines (compared to $13 for both iPhone and other smartphone users) and $25 for newspapers (compared with $10 and $12, respectively
  • consumers are making commercial decisions is rapidly evolving into an experiential method. They are leading media-filled lives and are drawn to "meaningful, relevant, and beautiful content." It is from this new paradigm that the iPad is emerging
  • Alex Street on 25 Nov 11
     
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Alex Street

Mobile TV Chip Maker Gets Another $27 Million in Fifth Round | mocoNews - 0 views

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dibcom DVB

shared by Alex Street on 02 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • the company says its chips are used in the majority of DVB-H mobile
  • EU is close to mandating the technology as a preferred standard. DiBcom
  • Alex Street on 02 Dec 10
     
    The company's chip are built for DVB-H, which is slowly emerging as the standard, at least in Europe, where the EU is close to mandating the technology as a preferred standard.
Alex Street

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

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iplayer bbc iplayer3.0 web-TV webimmersion usage usagedata anthonyrose

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

Latest sales data - 0 views

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playstation wii xbox360 sales marketshare kinect psmove

shared by Alex Street on 13 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • 8.7 million Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles in the U
  • 6.9 million) own a Wii,
  • UK gamers today
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  • Table One: UK Sales Forecast, September-December 2010[4]
  • UK consumers are planning to buy 1.8 million new game consoles by Christmas,
  • 2.2 million consumers will buy into motion gaming
  • entice almost 1.8 million consumers in the UK
  • PS3 is projected to sell the highest number of consoles this Christmas
  • 155 million units since their individual launch dates
  • Sony and Microsoft are now tapping into the popularity of motion gaming,
  • Sony PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect are more technologically advanced than the Wii a
  • capture the imagination of casual gamers
  • ntry level motion gaming experience
  • Total number of Xbox 360 and PS3 active consoles in the UK – 8,700,000
  • Market share data based on historical statistics of total number of consoles purchased to date
Alex Street

What are the figures for smartphone penetration in the UK? - Quora - 1 views

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DCT smartphone mobile UK

shared by Alex Street on 03 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • What are the figures for smartphone penetration in the UK?
  • Enders Analysis
David Astle

How many movies are available in the US iTunes store? - Quora - 0 views

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iTunes content VOD

shared by David Astle on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • How many movies are available in the US iTunes store?
Alex Street

Levi's Campaign Features a Town Trying to Recover - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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levi wieden&kennedy

shared by Alex Street on 22 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • asting residents of the Braddock area and paying them to appear in the ad
  • town will also be featured in video clips and an hourlong show, sponsored by Levi’s, to appear online and on the IFC and Sundanc
  • The suggestion to feature Braddock in the campaign came from the Levi’s creative agency
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  • campaign plays up the concept that Braddock residents are descendants of the pioneers who first wore Levi’s in the 1870s
  • People don’t think there are frontiers anymore,” says a girl who narrates a commercial that depicts scenes of life in Braddock. “They can’t see how frontiers are all around u
  • Across the board, it is an authentic, organic partnership,” Mr. Fetterman said. “At no point did it ever feel it was a marketing campaign
  • hey didn’t show up with magic beans and a couple pairs of free jeans and say, ‘Come be in our ads
  • A lot of good has come from it,”
David Astle

France may give up on pay DTT - 0 views

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France DTT Europe PayTV payDTT

shared by David Astle on 22 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • France may give up on pay DTT
  • Pay DTT services are now available in 13 countries of the European Union, including the Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, UK, Spain and Sweden.
  • There are also limited services in Germany, and also some non-EU European countries like Albania, Iceland, Macedonia, Norway and Switzerland
Alex Street

Difference between progressive download and streaming online videos - 0 views

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videodelivery onlinevideo streaming adaptivebittrate progressivedownload codecs

shared by Alex Street on 03 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Streaming video requires access to a streaming media server.
  • When a video streams, it is being sent via UDP protocol to a player on the end users compter. The user will have the ability to fast forward or rewind the video.
  • video isn't being downloaded to the end users computer so it is less likely that the content will be stolen
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  • Most web hosting providers or Content Delivery Networks (CDN) will have streaming media servers available to use
  • David Astle on 03 Apr 12
     
    The biggest disadvantage of streaming over progressive download is if the user watches the same video over and over you will pay for the delivery of it each time. Videos are also streamed at what ever bit rate they are encoded at. Keep this in mind when creating HD quality video. 8Mbps video may sound and look great, but most homes can't sustain an 8Mbps connection. If you have really high bit rate video, consider delivering via HTTP. Most web hosting providers or Content Delivery Networks (CDN) will have streaming media servers available to use. Historically, Flash video was more expensive to deliver than other forms. Recently prices have compressed and you will find that it costs about the same to deliver Flash or Windows Media files. In the past I would have said if your video is more than 10 minutes in length deliver it via Stream and less do progressive. Since prices
Alex Street

DIRECTV, Inc. - DIRECTV Fourth Quarter Results Complete Another Record Setting Year for... - 0 views

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directv skymexico dishtv pricing

shared by Alex Street on 09 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • due to continued strong demand for HD, DVR and pre-paid services, benefits from the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament and targeted customer
  • 8.85 millio
  • ky Mexico, whose results are accounted for as an equity method investment and therefore are not consolidated by DTVLA, had approximately 3.04 mi
Alex Street

Why doesn't the Apple App Store give download figures? Would the truth be unA... - 0 views

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appdevelopment bfi appstores

shared by Alex Street on 06 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • This is the third in our series of six app-related articles. See also: • It’s all about the design. Essential tips from user experience gurus • Mobile applications: native v Web apps – what are the pros and cons? • What is a mobile Web app? Here’s expert opinion from the W3C • The open market approach: Q&A with GetJar, the No1 independent app store • How museums bring collections to life with augmented reality
  • will an iPhone app deliver return on investment (ROI)
  • ll you can do are some crude calculations based on the three numbers that Apple releases
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  • extra cost of adding a second and third smartphone platform is 30-50 percent of the original investment.
  • Average revenue per paid-app: US $6,259.78.
  • normal for an app to cost US $50,000 to
  • don’t get picked by the Apple reviewers, you don’t get featured.
  • iPhone users have on average 37 apps on their phones
  • cross-promote your app for free
  • SMS/email opt-in lists,
  • media love writing about anything you do;
  • , mobiThinking is not alone in querying the economics of the App Store model: see Tomi Ahonen. And this honest first-hand app experience from Tom Hume, a design director at a London agency called IDEO, is fascinating.
  • What we don’t know is: was it was kept for a year, month, week or day, or did it go straight in the bin.
  • TWC proudly tells us that Weather.mobi gets 25 million unique users a month.
  • same visitor information for the app is confidential.
  • Great apps also have a habit of winning awards
Alex Street

Ofcom | Arqiva Reference Offers for DTT multiplexes in 600MHz spectrum - 0 views

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arqiva 600mhz

shared by Alex Street on 16 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • obligation to produce Reference Offers
  • award of spectrum in the range 550 to 606MHz (the 600MHz band).
  • published Reference Offers provide a basis upon which potential bidders for 600 MHz spectrum are able to assess the possible transmission costs involved in establishing a transmitter network for digital terrestrial television
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  • Ofcom has separately commissioned an independent audit of the Reference Offers by the consultants Deloitte to test the technical and financial assumptions that underpin the Offers
  • Costs are provided for the situation where the customer engages Arqiva to provide Transmission Services
  • Offers provide a starting point for bidders based upon a notional design of network with transmitters at 80 locations across the UK
  • otential customers will need to engage with Arqiva's transmission business to refine plans and costs based upon their anticipated actual needs
Alex Street

iPad conversion rates twice as high as desktop: stats | Econsultancy - 0 views

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bfi ipad conversion CTR flurry appdata

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  • iPad conversion rates are double that of desktop
  • 81.9m visits to merchants and 1.57m sales.
  • stats don't cover in-app purchases
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  • Average order values
  • average order values are concerned, the iPad is king, with an AOV of £69.94, compared to £65
  • first time in August, the iPad accounted for more sales than any other device,
  • iPad will - on average - have a higher income.
  • ge iPad conversion rate for August was 3.82%, w
  • version rate for iPad was 3.82% in August, compared to 1.9% for desktop (i.e. non-mobile).
Alex Street

Overview of International Film Markets and Theatrical Distribution - Skillset - 0 views

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bfi filmmarket globaldata

shared by Alex Street on 21 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • 1.64 billion admissions to North American cinemas
  • average number of times that each person in North America went to the cinema in 2002 was 5.7, double the frequency of attendance in the UK
  • majors taking 95% market
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  • 2 billion admissions in the rest of the world
  • Studios split the International market into three main areas
  • Supported by the National Lottery through the Skillset Film Skills Fund
  • Latin America, the two main markets are Mexico and Brazil
  • Far East sector are Japan and Australia
  • Platform: 15Narrow: 150
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