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.
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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.
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Research from Omdia shows that, among people in Spain aged 18-24, YouTube is the most popular video service at 86% usage, followed by Free TV with just under 75%, than TikTok at 71%, twitch at 57%, and Prime Video at 54%. In contrast to other countries
Read MoreTo 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...
Read MoreAverage 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...
Read MoreGlass 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...
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Read MoreIn this blog post, we will present updated results on the energy footprint of BBC television services for 2019/20 and compare the estimated carbon emissions with our 2016 study. Despite a 14% increase in total viewing hours...
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