tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76320786225063993342012-02-16T09:48:24.237-08:00Web TV, online TV, Broadcast and web design, these are all things that interest me...Andy Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249948154719258850noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7632078622506399334.post-18647104217372436832009-03-24T02:09:00.000-07:002009-03-24T02:17:44.344-07:00

It is good to have some positive news to report in these weird and wonderful economic times. The BBC Trust has sanctioned an increase (27%) in their online budget to £145m per year over the next 3 years.This is hopefully very good news for those of us at the cutting edge of the digital/broadcast space, as the BBC simply spends money that other broadcasters cannot at the current time, and it has a

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So, I would love to report on a shiny new Sky HD service and how it has transformed my viewing experience, but I can't, as yet, get my hands on one of the damn things...is it me, or is it completely wrong to offer something for sale that you have no chance of fulfilling? It is quite frustrating to be told I only have '2 months to go' before I can have the exciting opportunity to actually order my

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we have recently been lucky enough to develop the first ever digital red nose for Comic Relief in the UK. This is a high profile project and starting to pick up nicely in a viral way.We are adding a number of other social media features over the next week or so, on the run up to the TV event on March the 13th, but in the meantime please go and get yourself a digital red nose at:

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hello everyone, I hope you are keeping your respective chins up!Today ITV announced big cuts across the business (with a reduction in of 41%) , with a return to core services and a reduction in targets for the coming 3 years. No real suprise here, everyone knew that big changes were coming. I guess it puts paid to the original content strategy that Michael Grade had penned, but these are unusual

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Morning! Well today I have been thinking about taking the web to our living rooms...We had a very interesting presentation last week from a company called miniweb (www.miniweb.tv), who have a really good take on preserving the 'TV' experience and adding interactivity around it, rather than creating a whole new way of watching TV. I like this approach, as I for one don't like having to switch my

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Radical times call for radical thinking, or so it seems at ITV, where a possible merger of C4, Five and ITV has been put on the table. Of course this might never go through, as there are anti-competition laws to be by-passed and I can't see Sky allowing it, as it would provide major competition for them (and the BBC, although that is a different arguement), but it is an interesting idea... change

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Proof if proof be need be (as someone once said). I was talking about things being hard for the TV industry not 2 days ago and today the Guardian publishes a story on ITV's troubles with their pension pot and their plan to 'slash jobs' as a reaction to the economic difficulties.(See full article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/13/itv-staff-hundreds-job-cuts)This is pretty bad news

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Well, it has been a while, but we are really off and running with 2009!This year brings all sorts of challenges to the broadcast industry, not least of which is "what the hell do we do with only a fraction of our ad revenue coming in..." - not something to be taken lightly when it comes to the potential loss of thousands of jobs.We are working hard here at etv to define new models of content

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From the Screen Digest presentation:56m videos served on Virgin +250m streams on PC's since launchNow 1m+ unique users on a single day85% windows, 10% mac, 3% iphone, 1% Wii, 1% linux37% users 15-3443% 36-5421% 55+I think these are pretty interesting results, not least that the older generation are completely on top of this new technology... all I can say is it must be a damn sight easier than

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I read with interest today some research conducted by Simply Media (www.simplymedia.tv) and Work Research which is obviously pertinent to our common goals. It states that there are only really 3 types of online broadcast media, Snippets (5 secs to 5 minutes), Boutique (2mins to 5mins) and Catch-up (longer form from 5mins to feature length).It talks about the differences in content requirements

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Usually I would spend some time reviewing the new Brightcove player for you all, but the chaps at Techcrunch (www.techcrunch.com) have done such a nice job you might as well go there:http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/12/brightcove-3-leaked-screenshots/Brightcove is only one of a number of 'player' solutions; indeed here at etv we have our own, but obviously we are not looking to compete with the

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Apologies for the tardy updating of this blog, I have been off having another baby (well supporting my wife while she does!). Things are hectic in the Rogers household, but as I live to give I thought I would give you some updated facts and figures from our recent research here at etv:Using TV and online combined delivers up to 50% increase in positive brand perceptionThe number of Britons

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I read with interest this week about Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.co.uk/) and chip-maker Titan are re-defining the TV experience by developing widget-based interaction within the TV experience... at first glance I like the idea of this, it saves us here at etv (http://www.etv.tv/) from creating multi-platform interaction, which currently requires the user to engage with one or more platforms (

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Having spent a long time in the traditional (how weird is that) digital industry, making websites, creating online games, developing portals and winning quite a few awards, I have been used to the Elephant in the room that was AKQA (www.akqa.com). I respect them for their creativity and I like the fact that, despite their size, I hear very few complaints from clients about their '

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o.k. 'obviously' we should take the following with a pinch of salt, but the figures below are pretty compelling from a brand perspective:Branded content sites are 24% more effective than overall MarketNorms at impacting purchase intent among those with household incomes of $75,000 or greater. Video advertising on branded sites provides an 82% brand awareness boost over MarketNorms’ overall online

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It was nice to read today (the in the NMA 31.07.08 www.nma.co.uk) that video is the most popular online activity... around 28% of Europeans now regularly watch video online which is more than double the % in 2006. That should make my job a little easier over the coming months and years.This says to me 2 things: 1) the technology is now here to deliver on the requirement of the market and b) as

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It has been a frantic week since I started at etv; the opportunity here is fantastic, and it is really nice to believe in a cause again. I have had a crash course in TV commissioning, production and ongoing programming, and it is certainly a different world to the one I have come from (pure digital design and build).I guess the biggest difference is in the size of the contracts and the way they

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Hello all, it's nice to be up and running with the Blog, after a long 3 months preparing my rants about video online, broadcasting online and generally taking whatever we call video online to the next obvious level.

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