(In Q1 2012) the BBC recorded 190 million requests for its content per month (incl) over 140 million for TV and around 46 million for radio shows.
During that time, smartphone and tablet devices accounted for 15% of total programme views, with Internet-connected devices — including your Smart TV, games console and Blu-ray player — contributed a further 11%.
The figures are impressive when you factor in that mobile device use almost doubled (94%) in one year and Internet-connected devices saw 57% growth from April 2011.
As of this morning, the year-old Viddy had 16 million users, adding 500,000 new ones a day
75 percent of all movies watched by Netflix members come from recommendations
Apps have also been important for streaming TV and film services such as Netflix and Hulu, as well as for the BBC’s iPlayer and BSkyB’s Sky Go – the latter now attracts 1.5 million unique users a month.
The top five free iPad apps are for TV catchup services.
Five months ago the BBC’s global iPlayer streaming video service was launched in Australia, offering access to new BBC television shows as well as the classics. Since then we’ve grown to become by far the largest market for the BBC’s all-you-can-eat subscription service, which costs $AU9.49 per month or $AU89.99 per year.
In fact Australia accounts for 20 per cent of iPlayer’s global revenue - which is more than the second and third countries combined
ChefHangout is a site where chefs can charge for cooking lessons and it sits on top of the Google Hangout product. The lessons are scheduled throughout the day and can cost upwards of $20 a piece. That’s not a lot of money when you’re getting an intimate and interactive lesson from a professional chef
Via OFCOM’s International Communications Market report, published mid Dec. (I’m catching up on reading, finally!)
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr11/icmr/ICMR2011.pdf
In 2011, 1.94 billion TV and radio programme requests were made on iPlayer across all platforms in the UK, its highest number ever. Although computers are still the most popular platform for BBC iPlayer users, accounting for two-thirds of requests last year, December saw a massive spike particularly for mobiles, tablets and connected TVs.
In December alone, 7 million programmes were requested on connected TV sets, an increase of more than 1,000% on the same period the previous year, while smartphones and tablets saw 13 million and 10 million requests made, representing an increase of 163% and 596% respectively. This helped BBC iPlayer register a record-breaking 187 million monthly requests across all platforms in December alone, a 29% increase year-on-year.
KLM turns journeys into movies (by AmsterdamAdBlog) … “KLM Passport app, an app that turns traveller’s journeys into movies. This film, developed by Muse, shows more or less how it works: you choose a theme (adventure, around the world, island hopping, in the snow, etc.), select the best pictures and videos on your iPhone taken during your trip, and the app creates a need little movie.”
The Muppets Rock Out in a Google+ Hangout (by Google)
Western Union platform that allows you to perform a virtual duet and produce a personalized music video with Snoop Dogg, Timbaland, Sunidhi Chauhan or K’naan – at the time of writing not all songs are released yet, for that matter. You upload a photo of yourself, pick an artist, and a song. Then you karaoke it – with the lyrics streamed on the screen – and your personal avatar singing the duet is sent to family and loved ones
(Stats about global BBC iplayer app use):
An unexpected 35% of viewers are watching more than one programme per visit
25% go on to browse the app after watching a programme
On average, 75% of subscribers access the app each day
What is Google TV? (by GoogleTV)
ViKi is an open-source-like solution for video, and acquires the rights to TV shows and movies. The site then puts it on one of its channels and within the first 24 hours an organized, volunteer community subtitles the content using ViKi’s software.
…To date, 150 million words have been subtitled in 160 languages by the ViKi community, and the site features 5,000-plus hours of content.
