Robert Andrews
Sep 9, 2011 6:00 AM
ITV’s Rugby World Cup strategy for mobile was tackled in to touch Friday morning when its dedicated mobile app failed to materialise and its alternative mobile web stream did not work.
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 7, 2011 6:06 AM
Mobile TV has for years been one of the great white hopes for mobile operators looking for new lines of revenue from their data networks—a sentiment that they have held on to despite some high-profile services having failed to meet expectations. Now Everything Everywhere—the JV of Orange and T-Mobile in…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 2, 2011 5:18 AM
UK tournament rightsholder ITV (LSE: ITV) will try to reach rugby fans at the office and on mobile because this year’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand takes place way outside of UK prime time.
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Robert Andrews
May 31, 2011 3:52 AM
UK broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) has launched one of its first efforts on the way to charging for some digital content, an aim set by new CEO Adam Crozier.
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 28, 2011 5:03 AM
Another chapter in the continuing consolidation mobile service agencies, and the growth of one agency in particular, the Mobile Interactive Group. Today, the UK outfit announced that it would be buying Golden Bytes to extend its operations into the Netherlands and Belgium. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Ingrid Lunden
Feb 16, 2011 8:53 AM
While Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are battling it out to woo publishers with their in-app payment services, I asked major content publishers at Mobile World Congress for their take on native in-app payments, and what it might mean to their own business models. The bottom line: of…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jan 26, 2011 11:05 AM
—Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Android: Next up in Amazon’s increasing use of the Android platform is the free Amazon for Android app for the UK market. This is an extension of the iPhone app already available: in addition to being able to access all regular Amazon online shopping services, users can…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 24, 2010 7:58 AM
BBC Worldwide is swelling its mobile app portfolio, after finding some success with earlier launches. It already publishes several, paid iPhone apps for its Good Food and Top Gear brands, as well as for Gavin & Stacey and The Mighty Boosh and its Lonely Planet guides, which it discounted successfully…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 2, 2010 9:15 AM
Most media owners are strong believers in a strategy of “any-and-every-platform” ubiquity.
But, for this season’s mobile strategy, the makers of the UK’s popular X Factor TV show are launching an “exclusive” app only on Nokia’s Ovi store.
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Robert Andrews
Jul 29, 2010 4:26 AM
Within a couple of hours of BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) announcing it’s nicked Virgin Media’s UK VOD rights to HBO shows, the cable operator rushed out confirmation of its upcoming web and mobile VOD offering.
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