Roku more popular than Apple TV

Roku is more popular than Apple TV, acccording to a new report from Parks Associates.

The study (The Evolving Market For Streaming Media Devices) shows that among US broadband households with a streaming media player, 44 per cent use a … Read More

UKTV’s Watch sinks teeth into Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain for UK broadcast

UKTV has sinked its teeeth into Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain. The series’ UK broadcast will be on Watch this autumn.

The sci-fi horror is based on the best-selling vampire novel trilogy co-written by the Pan’s Labyrinth director and author … Read More

Digital video spending rises one-third in 2014

Digital video spending climbed by 33 per cent in the first half of 2014.

New figures from the British Video Association show that in the first six months of this year, consumer expenditure on digital video fuelled a rise in … Read More

TheHorrorShow.tv moves into DVD as well as VOD distribution

TheHorrorShow.tv is moving into DVD distribution.

The streaming site, which specialises in horror and genre titles, launched last year in the UK. While the industry increasingly moves towards digital releasing, though, the company has taken a step in the other … Read More

Netflix is hiring a new Tagger for the UK and Ireland

Netflix is hiring a new Tagger for the UK and Ireland.

The Internet TV giant boasts a unique – and occasionally innacurate – recommendation system, which produces lists of sub-genre as diverse as Funny Romantic Comedies to Critically-Acclaimed-Emotional-Underdog-movies.

“As a … Read More

blinkbox offers 50 per cent off LEGOLAND tickets to those who buy The LEGO Movie

The LEGO Movie is released today for digital download – and blinkbox is offering 50 per cent off LEGOLAND tickets to anyone who buys it.

Tesco is no stranger to promotions to support its digital video releases – and with … Read More

4 in 10 Brits use video on-demand

4 in 10 Brits now use online services to watch TV, according to Ofcom.

The organisation’s latest report reveals that 39 per cent of internet users said they used the web to watch TV programmes online or download from TV … Read More

EastEnders dominates BBC iPlayer activity

EastEnders dominated BBC iPlayer activity in May 2014, making up 15 of the 20 most popular programmes.

Usage of the BBC’s on-demand service continues to climb, with iPlayer racking up a total of 273 million requests (downloads and streams) last … Read More

Scandal Season 3 available to watch online in the UK on Thursday 31st July

Season 3 of Scandal will be available to watch online in the UK from Thursday 31st July.

The third season of the number 1 US network drama has already been showered with critical acclaim in the US, where it airs … Read More

Sky 1 commissions second season of Yonderland

Yonderland has been commissioned by Sky for a second season of motherhood, wizardry and surreal puppetry.

The family series, created, written by and starring Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond (with puppets by … Read More