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Widespread Subscriber Account Sharing

informitv | Sep 3, 2023 | Industry Insights, Legal

Around a third of UK households with online video subscriptions are sharing them with family and friends, particularly 16-24 year-olds. Churn is an issue, with 11% of users cancelling permanently, potentially due to rising costs. A survey of 27,000 respondents worldwide found this to be the case.Around a third of UK households with online video subscriptions are sharing them with family and friends, particularly 16-24 year-olds. Churn is an issue, with 11% of users cancelling permanently, potentially due to rising costs. A survey of 27,000 respondents worldwide found this to be the case.

BBC iPlayer Improves Speed of Programme Availability and Live Video as Part of Significant Under the Hood Update

BBC | Aug 14, 2023 | Providers

BBC iPlayer has improved streaming speed and now offers on-demand shows like Strictly Come Dancing and Match of the Day with reduced latency and faster availability. Live shows can be watched with a 60 second delay or less, meaning BBC iPlayer viewers are now as up-to-date as broadcast TV watchers.

Addressing the Cold Start Problem in Recommender Systems

Jul 17, 2023 | VideoTech

Iason Chaimalas worked with BBC to design a machine learning algorithm for Cold Start users that is both accurate and diverse. The method, called Bootstrapped Personalised Popularity (B2P), uses item metadata and popularity forecasting to increase accuracy and diversity, outperforming existing, highly performant models on severely cold datasets.

BBC iPlayer Represents 15% of BBC Viewing

Jul 16, 2023 | Providers

Streaming requests to the BBC iPlayer have increased 11% year-on-year, accounting for 15% of total BBC television viewing. Comedy and drama are more popular on iPlayer than news and sport, particularly among 16-34s, but their viewing of BBC television overall has decreased. 13.4 million active accounts were present in the last year, with 70% of iPlayer viewing taking place via a television. Total streaming time averaged at 50.4 million hours per week.

My Own Fan Experience of Streaming the FIFA World Cup™

broadpeak | Feb 2, 2023 | Sports, VideoTech

To the disappointment of my family, I decided to convert my living room into an experience centre with three TVs, a mixture of smartphones and tablets, and a few other devices to compare the difference between matches broadcast...

Ofcom Launches Consultation on BBC iPlayer Archive Expansion

Broadband TV News | Oct 20, 2022 | Providers

BBC iPlayer Rises as Television Viewing Falls

informitv | Jul 25, 2022 | Industry Insights

Average viewing of the BBC iPlayer is now about an hour a week, but average viewing of BBC television programmes overall has also fallen by around an hour a week compared to the previous year. There are 12.1 million accounts...

Sky Glass Review: Streaming TV Not Quite Ready for Prime Time

Media | Nov 22, 2021 | Devices, Providers

Glass is Sky’s new voice-controlled streaming television – an ambitious attempt to ditch the satellite dish and provide pay TV straight to the screen, with no set top box required. Recommendations are pulled from all the...

The Four Ways Europe’s TV Viewing Habits Are Changing

Broadband TV News | Apr 28, 2021 | Industry Insights

SVOD services in Europe are frequently used alongside broadcaster led catch-up services. 33% of Internet users in the big five European markets report watching both catch-up and SVOD services, although catch-up-only viewers are in the minority. The UK is the only market where a long form catch-up service, the BBC iPlayer, is ahead of an SVOD service.

BBC iPlayer Boosts Dramatic Viewing

informitv | Apr 26, 2021 | Providers

Building a WebAssembly Runtime For BBC iPlayer and Enhanced Audience Experiences.

BBC Design + Engineering | Feb 27, 2021 | VideoTech

N BBC R&D, we are investigating how we evolve our current multimedia applications to move beyond video by using Object Based Media (OBM). We have been investigating the use of WebAssembly as a cross-platform technology for this.

OTT Question Time #22 – Are We At the End of Peak TV?

VOD Professional | Nov 17, 2020 | Content

We’ve undoubtedly been living in a golden age of television. The number of original scripted series in the USA has more than doubled since 2010 (from 216 to 532 in 2019). The range of platforms we can watch on – both in terms of hardware (TVs, phones, tablets) and services (like Netflix, Amazon Prime, BBC iPlayer) – has massively expanded over the same period. Content production budgets have inc[…]

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