Despite the imminent arrival of Kangaroo, ITV (LSE: ITV) has just got around to striking a digital distribution deal with iTunes Store. In true long-tail fashion, some of its popular…

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Latest to launch a movie download store - and the latest amongst the supermarkets to try their hand - is France’s Carrefour. The world’s second largest retail group after Wal-Mart…

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BT’s (NYSE: BT) living room IPTV platform is adding PictureBox, Universal Pictures’ premium on-demand movie subscription service, to its box. For £5 per month, customers get to pick from a…

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-- FHM.com/MoMedia: Mobile and web video production house MoMedia, in which Endemol owns a stake, has signed a deal with Bauer (formerly Emap) men’s mag site FHM.com to supply Kamikaze…

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As predicted yesterday on news of Ashley Highfield’s appointment as CEO, it looks like ITV/C4/BBC Worldwide online TV JV Project Kangaroo won’t make the earlier-rumoured June launch date. “Observers” tell…

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Highlights from a conflict-laden weekend… -- Virgin vs publishers: Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) is “already in talks with unnamed content providers about paying to have their content delivered faster than…

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- Video metrics: Two years after it launched in the US, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is bringing its Video Metrix web video tracking rankings to the UK, France, Germany and Canada.…

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Threads from the TV content market happening on the Croisette in Cannes… -- Hulu aims global: Jason Kilar, CEO of the NBC/News Corp (NYSE: NWS) web TV JV Hulu.com, told…

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Mobile video broadcast service Qik has raised a $3 million second round and is adding interoperability with upstart UK-based web TV platform WorldTV. At MipTV in Cannes on Thursday, we…

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Voice recognition-powered video search index Blinkx is announcing even more content deals this week than it usually does. Amongst the eight press releases issued in the last three days… It’s…

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The BBC is launching a version of its iPlayer TV catch-up for Nintendo’s Wii console, the broadcaster announced with the game maker at MipTV. The service will be offered as…

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- Warner Bros: The movie studio is to make some films available over VOD platforms the same day they go on sale as DVDs. The studio is giving Sky Box…

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Paris-based video upload site Dailymotion is trying to prove viewers will watch long-form content on the web, launching Cinema Dailymotion - a space for “streaming feature-length films and documentaries” (see…

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- BBC bandwidth dialogue: BBC future media and technology director Ashley Highfield has penned a manifesto urging industry collaboration in response to concerns over IPTV and the possibility ISPs could…

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A couple of weeks ago, our London breakfast summit Exploding Video: Measuring & Monetising TV In The Multiplatform Marketplace, sponsored by Teletrax, brought 70 online video and broadcast execs out…

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Perhaps answering critics who argue its content line-up isn’t compelling enough, P2P TV platform Joost will start showing Premier League soccer in eight more territories, including the important Middle East…

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After Joost, Babelgum, iPlayer, Livestation, Vuze et al comes yet another online TV platform. Web video search index Blinkx is branching farther out in to distribution by launching its own…

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- Virgin 50 Mbps: Nine million VMED customers will have access to 50 Mbps cable this year, the company said, considering best methods for rollout: “Unlike big routed networks, we…

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In a rather surprise move, Joost has won the rights to show on-demand match highlights across the Indian subcontinent. It appears rights were given by Nimbus Sport, a sports rights…

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- Orange TV: Orange’s UK IPTV service still shows no signs of emerging from testing. The service already operates in France, Poland and Spain and had promised a 2007 UK…

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Finger-in-the-air time. On-demand DVD sales will reach $33 million in the US and major European countries this year but grow to a whopping $1.1 billion by 2012, a new report…

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In its 2007 earnings this month, ITV (LSE: ITV) said it would soon be “improving the user interface” of its ITV.com video player - the site that was only recently…

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Something we’ve known about for a while - Ministry Of Sound TV head Assia Grazioli-Venier has left the dance music multimedia house to form an IPTV consultancy. Flypaper.tv will work…

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- BBC IPTV plans: The BBC’s TV platforms controller Rahul Chakkara called on IPTV players, at the IPTV World Forum in London, to pull up their socks, arguing current packages…

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The BBC says it has now plugged a loophole that let enterprising viewers download shows from its iPlayer without any copy protection. Unveiled last week, the web-based iPhone edition of…

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