Round up: Microsoft and 90 years of 主播大秀 innovation
Eliza Kessler
Content Producer
Hi folks - here鈥檚 the fortnightly of news about 主播大秀 Online.
The of a new partnership between the 主播大秀 and Microsoft received lots of attention across blogs last week. As reported by :
鈥�You'll soon be able to watch catch-up and on-demand TV shows and films from Auntie Beeb on your Windows Phone phone, whether it's running Windows Phone 7.5 software -- like the Nokia Lumia 800 -- or Windows Phone 8 -- like the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8S. It's not technically an app, but a shortcut that gets its own coloured square, or live tile, leading directly to the iPlayer online player. The launch date is yet to be confirmed.鈥�
90 years of innovation at the 主播大秀
As reported, the cross-media campaign seeks to highlight that the 主播大秀 as an organisation is constantly innovating with a public purpose:
鈥�Using a combination of footage from the 主播大秀 archive, adapted and shot scenes as well as animation and CGI, the creative takes the viewer on a journey of broadcast, technological and creative advances from 1922 to the present day.鈥�
discussed the rapid growth of iPlayer viewing on tablets:聽
鈥�主播大秀 statistics for iPlayer viewing and listening have provided evidence of the impact of the so-called "tablet Christmas", with programme requests on devices such as Apple's iPad and Google's Nexus 7 almost doubling between November and January to 40m.鈥�
have reported on the decision to close the and discuss what this means in the wider 主播大秀 Online context:聽
The 主播大秀 Music Review site
鈥�The 主播大秀 has been quietly downsizing its online operations for sometime now. Partly to save money, and partly amidst pressure from commercial newspaper and magazine owners who argued that the 主播大秀 website that emerged in the early days of mainstream net usage, with large quantities of text-based features not directly linked to the Beeb鈥檚 TV or radio shows or the 主播大秀 News machine, took the Corporation outside its remit as a licence-fee funded broadcaster. The 主播大秀鈥檚 online output is therefore increasingly directly linked to TV and radio output, and聽increasingly centres on audio and video rather than long-form written content. In this environment, the future of the 主播大秀 music reviews site had been uncertain for a while.鈥�
Head of Digital Partnerships gave this on Building an Open Digital Space at the and discusses how the 主播大秀 could use and think about archive content in the future.聽
has an interesting feature on the evolution of YouView:
鈥�YouView has had a very difficult birth and it's not out of the woods yet. Those sales figures need to start picking up, and the platform must truly convince consumers of its relevance in the same way that Freeview and Freesat have done. The fact original Project Canvas director Richard Halton has remained with the venture as chief executive will be an important factor in both those aims. But what we are beginning to see are the green-shoots of the platform that was initially heralded in the Canvas days; one that could quietly revolutionise the way the masses watch and consume TV.鈥�
Johnny Ball grasps the future in the 主播大秀 Innovation campaign
Finally, 主播大秀 R&D have the imminent closure of their current blog and the launch of their new website:
鈥�In the weeks to come you can look forward to a brand new R&D website, and within that a dedicated project updates feed, where we'll take all the content that we have hosted on this blog over the last three and a half years and integrate it with the project pages, departmental info, and the publications. All of this will have its own dedicated search function, independent of the wider 主播大秀 web search too濒.鈥�
You will be able to find out more about R&D鈥檚 new website on the Internet blog in the next few weeks.
That鈥檚 all for this week, have a great weekend and as ever please leave your comments below.
Eliza Kessler is the content producer on the 主播大秀 Internet blog.