I have to say I am loving the BBC’s coverage of the Olympics on their website.  I have long been a lover of their live text commentary used for the cricket and the casual, informal language used and their use of this for the olympics has again made it more entertaining.  On top of this, [...]

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BBC’s iPlayer service is wiping the floor with its rivals in the on demand TV market recording up to 500,000 programme downloads a day. 11m TV shows were streamed or downloaded through iPlayer in January in comparison to 2.7m for channel 4’s system 4od and 2m for ITV. The massive amounts of advertising [...]

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As part of its record breaking 2008 marketing budget Cadbury are planning a follow up to their much loved drumming gorilla advert. According to the latest edition of Marketing the new ad will also feature an animal playing an instrument. The original advert was a major viral success achieving numerous blog postings, massive word of [...]

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A useful little list of video search providers.
Search Innovation Spotlight: Video Search
by Bob Heyman, Friday, April 6, 2007
THIS MONTH’S spotlight falls on video search.
While Google and Yahoo offer this service, smaller companies are also making a stir.
Blinkx is a category leader in dedicated video search. The Blinkx technology combines voice recognition with image and [...]

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is the fallout between google and viacom a route to market for smaller online video providers who are willing to play by the rules? personally I think whatever the outcome Youtube has a bg enough grip on the market to hold its share. That is unless people start pulling all their content which could be [...]

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