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How radio broadcasters can become key players in the podcast market chessboard

Blog post by Annie Langston

8 Feb 2023

Last week, Spotify announced an exclusive podcast deal with journalist Louis Theroux , one of BBC’s most notable personalities. Theroux is the latest radio talent to make the move to podcasting, which...

How (and why) Billie Eilish won Glastonbury

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

6 Jul 2022

live music

fragmented fandom

BBC

Glastonbury returned to great fanfare after the pandemic-enforced break, which meant it was the first one since 2019. The music world has changed a lot since then, with streaming getting bigger than ever...

The end of BBC Four and CBBC heralds the start of streaming realism for the BBC

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

1 Jun 2022

BBC

Video

Business Strategy

Last week’s announcement by BBC’s director general Tim Davie that the BBC is scrapping its two linear TV channels, BBC Four and CBBC, was both bold and pragmatic. The BBC is arguably going through...

The sensationalisation of news comes head-to-head with Euro 2020

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

17 Jun 2021

Euro 2020

news

BBC

Less than a week in, and the coverage of Euro 2020 is off to a problematic start. Any big sports event taking place after a year of pandemic-induced lockdowns was bound to have its hitches. Yet few could...

Discovery enters streaming race with discovery+ and Olympics offering

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

9 Dec 2020

discovery

Eurosport

discovery+

Last week , Discovery announced it will launch discovery+, ‘the definitive non-fiction’ subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD), on January 4th, 2021. Consumers in the US can expect the largest-ever content...

COVID fallout: BBC no longer considers UK Athletics value for money

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

Covid-19

covid

pandemic

COVID-19 exposed live entertainment as a vulnerable asset class , specifically following the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports . One of the hardest hit during this hiatus and ensuing uncertainty...

NBCUniversal hopes to draw level with Premier League move

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

15 Jul 2020

Video

Sports

Covid-19

With Comcast’s NBCUniversal-owned Peacock launching today (July 15th), sports fans will be excited ahead of NBCU’s repositioning of its English Premier League (EPL) rights, giving paying subscribers...

Innovation via Free-to-air Highlights Missed Opportunity to date for the EPL

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

24 Jun 2020

Sports

live sport

Sporting rights

Following live sports’ hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the English Premier League (EPL) saw two of the top three most-watched matches in league history occur last weekend. The previous record...

BBC Kids to LADbible: Video Providers Expand Their Reach

Blog post by Amanda Stears

18 Oct 2019

2btube

Alibaba

AVOD

In the streaming era, having international reach is just as important as being an established local brand. This week (October 14) sees TV players Tubi, Facebook Watch and Youku each expanding content reach...

BBC iPlayer to Lead Catch-up TV

Blog post by Amanda Stears

7 Aug 2019

BBC

BBC iPlayer

Catch Up TV

On 1 August, UK media regulator Ofcom announced that BBC can now extend its catch-up shows’ validity on BBC iPlayer for up to 12 months, as compared to the previous 30-day period. Apart from being able...

Is Pay-TV killing off Niche Sports?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

4 Jul 2019

Awareness

BBC

BBC One

With both the ICC Cricket World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cup approaching their climaxes, the stark difference in audience engagement raises the question, is pay-TV killing off niche sports? Deciding...

The BBC Confronts the Reality of Planet (Digital) Earth

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

20 Mar 2019

BBC

british tv

Global TV

Yesterday the chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation, David Clementi, gave a talk at the Oxford Media Conventionwhich starkly addressed the reality which the world’s oldest and arguably most...

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2016

BBC

BBC Music

BBC Music App

The BBC has launched a music app called, well, BBC Music . Available only in the UK, this native music app is one step on a well considered path for the BBC as it tries to carve out a role for itself in...

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