A piece of advice, don’t do it just because you can. As reported by Reuters a pre-release of Mark Thompson’s state of the BBC’s relationship-with-audience speech. He obviously makes references to the much talked about Integrated Media Player (again!) but interestingly talks directly about personalized content, echoing my question to Ashley a couple of weeks [...]

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We do live in interesting times. In my opinion it has only taken around 6 years to go from a world dominated by broadcast and scheduled viewing to one where any type of media is available on-demand (OD) - well we are almost there. A new report from Insight Research with the catchy title “Streaming [...]

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Humans love to work through problems. When we were producing early broadband and interactive TV services at the BBC from 2000-4 it came as a big surprise that outings such as Test the Nation (IQ), maze games and video/audio ‘observation’ quests (Mammals, Pyramid, XCreatures, Death in Rome and later Spooks) drew such loyal and ’stick-at-it’ [...]

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It seems social networks and user generated content that pervades them is now most definitely the next advertising dollar frontier. As reported by MediaPost, MySpace is about to create TV programming around it’s uploaded videos and start to introduce major media buy within that.

The enormously popular social networking site is working on deals that, Gold [...]

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I had a minor eureka moment at Milia, suddenly the new mobile kid on the block was exposed, naked with all the acne and teenage angst that every immature platform goes through - clear for all to see. I gave the mobile, or rather the content that us humans have so far designed for it, [...]

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More to follow from Milia once I have tidied the rest of my notes up but I have been compelled to join in the blogosphere murmur, nay chatter about the turning point that happened today (Here are some of the reports MediaPost, HuffingtonPost, Yahoo!,). ABC to offer its top programmes online, free.
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About time this happened - the world’s first download to own service has just sprung up (April launch) in the UK - of course. This is the true beginning of the decline of physical media and potentially the high street rental stores. Lovefilm and Universal pictures (who are ready to release its 6500 films into [...]

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Media distribution is truly changing. Heritage (that includes broadcast) media is moving out of its chrysalis state with networked, broadband TV media emerging. How long before it completely bursts out of its shell. Bits of its wings, legs, antenae are visible but how long before it is ready to fly? After talking to a few [...]

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I am in a profession where  I am always on the look out for that magic point in time, a place where in history we can say there is or was no turning back. I am referring of course to the switch from broadcast domination to global on-demand network. Quite a few people will say [...]

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Update: The vanilla Razr 3G handset I bought now voted best 3G device 2006 Gadget envy/showoff begins…
This post is partly due to my being the chair the first day of the Australasia Mobile Content World Conference in June and partly because I recently bought into Oz 3G, to immerse myself more in mobile content [...]

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Before I go onto the cross-media element of this post, a commercial lead in - Another week, another “the day tv (or something closely related) died” article. Ashley Vance of the register is the next person trying to get their name in the “I told you so” history books by trotting out the same old [...]

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Thanks to Lost Remote for highlighting the sparks starting to fly between traditional media (NBC) and web 2.0, participatory, social network, user generated content media (YouTube). Twice in a week NBC have put the pressure on YouTube to remove items placed there by viewers that originated on NBC. The first Lost Remote “Lazy Sunday” [...]

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or get your fix when you want it…This post is a preface to a series of posts about the on-demand revolution that is truly just around the corner - prompted by a small but significant event in the TV industry that happened yesterday and a visible second wave of Advanced TV hardware and networks (Broadband [...]

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