BBC getting kids hooked on to internet TV
The stylish ihistrion that launched the BBC TV shows on the net has just got a younger brother. The BBC has launched a new kid friendly version of the iPlayer. Aimed squarely at the 0-6 age group, it will hook them onto online tv at an early age.
This new player follows on from the launch of the CBBC iPlayer tv on demand help last year aimed at the 6-12 age range.
Shows will admit Aardman Animation (of Wallace & Gromit fame) new show Timmy Time amongst others
The kid friendly apps are designed to stop children accidently viewing untimely material on the full blown iPlayer and letting the legal brief ones have a live internet tv service all of their own.
As with its big brother CBeebies iPlayer will show content for around 7 days after initial broadcast. However some will remain for up to 13 weeks.
The mighty Google have begun a new advertising campaign across the TV networks in the US in a bid to promote their web browser Chrome.
The statistics show that in the internet browser wars, explorer has 66% of the browsing market. Firefox has 22%, Safari comes in third with 8%.
That leaves poor old chrome sitting on a 1.4% share, although thats not so bad for a program scarcely just launched.
In a statement Google commented:-
The ad in question is fitly surreal. Has no reasoned over guy booming buy Google Chrome and only mentions what its advertising sort out at the end.
Lasting for 30 seconds, the ad shows some childrens bricks in a tray knocked out in a get around manner? game by a ball which is the chrome logo. expiration posterior a representation of the Chrome browser.
For a long time online TV users outside the US have been looking enviously across the water and wishing they could watch the great streaming content.
Well now, things are looking interesting on that front. Hulu the biggest catch up tv service in the world is tieing up deals with international TV content providers and possibly getting ready to launch worldwide.
On Wednesday the company announced that it was in discussions aimed at launching the video website into a selection of other countrie.
Another company in the deal, Digital Rights Group will be supplying full length television shows such as Green Wing, Peep Show and Doc Martin. Endemol will at the start be supplying realness episodes like Anything for Love and I Want To Be A Hilton to the website.
These shows will in the main, be the first time they have been watched by US viewers. Bringing Hulu special advertising revenue. Forsell commented:- “You have these hidden gems such as Green Wing which the US audience just hasn’t seen before”.
Hulu has recently been striking deals, lefrt right and plaza with companies such as Disney which will see the media company become a share holder in the company and provides episodes of hit tv shows like Lost, Grey’s Anatomy and dire Housewives.
Lets hope they get over the tv content providers international copyright issues and get tv content to the entire world.
