Advertising your business on YouTube? There’s an app for that

Hoping to advertise on YouTube? There’s an app for that, as the video site targets small businesses.

YouTube is always keen to emphasise its potential for advertisers. This week, research commissioned by the streaming giant highlighted its engagement with younger … Read More

YouTube reaches more young people than commercial TV, claims study

YouTube reaches more young people than any commercial TV channel, claims one new study.

The research, commissioned by the video site, was run by Comsore and uses ratings data from BARB and findings from a YouGov survey. It found that … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (18th June)

Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of hand-picked classics.

Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, it’s Elena, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s … Read More

10 years on: How YouTube’s Lonelygirl15 help invent the web series

Say the words “Lonelygirl15” to someone these days and you’ll likely be met with faint recognition. “Oh yeah, that YouTube hoax”, they might say. “How long ago was that?” The answer is 10 years ago.

16th June 2006. That was … Read More

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK (18th June 2016)

Not getting your art-house fix from Netflix? Wish there were more indie films on Amazon Prime Video? Every week, we round up the new releases on MUBI, the subscription VOD service that hand-picks new and old classics from around the … Read More

More than half of OITNB fans go back for repeat viewings

More than half of Orange Is the New Black fans go back for repeat viewings, new research from Netflix reveals.

The streaming giant is famously secretive about its viewing figures and user behaviours – earlier this month, the site announced … Read More

Eat the World: Amazon orders original cooking series

Amazon is serving up a new cooking docuseries for Prime Video subscribers.

Eat the World with Emeril Lagasse will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on 2nd September. The show will follow Emeril Lagasse (Emeril Live, Top Chef) and some of … Read More

Skylanders, Spy Kids, Kong Season 2: Netflix unveils new original kids’ slate

Not content with just announcing further details of Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters, Netflix is continuing to place an emphasis on its original kids’ content with five new animated series.

“At Netflix, we invest in stories that our members will love … Read More

The Living and the Dead: A horror show to savour

“Most of the time, there’s a ghost, you put it to bed and go home. How do you do it week after week?”

That’s Ashley Pharaoh, creator of The Living and the Dead, speaking at the premiere of BBC … Read More

Sky Movies to relaunch as Sky Cinema

Sky Movies is relaunching this July as Sky Cinema.

Sky’s movie platform has been a long-established part of its paid TV service, but has found itself increasingly competing with newer SVOD rivals such as Netflix in recent years. Now, it’s … Read More