4 posts tagged “iplayer”
I have always lived my life counter-cyclically (sic), leaving Razorfish before the .com crash, buying what became Schematic at the bottom of the last .com recession and then leaving the film business after a series of Sundance Film Festival hits.
From the outside, these moves seemed mad, but most of them proved to be quite prescient, and often lucrative. Moreover, I'm driven by a need to be intellectually and creatively challenged; complacency isn't in my vocabulary. I love to make things, and build teams - and businesses.So today, I've made an announcement which will catch many by surprise. I have decided to leave the BBC to join DMGT, a large British media conglomerate to become the CEO of the division which holds their digital businesses, Associated Northcliffe Digital (http://and.co.uk).
I'm incredibly proud of the work I've done over the past two years at the BBC: the redesign and transformation of the www, mobile and itv services, BBC iPlayer on all of its platforms and of course the mobile and online personalized homepages. Doing one of these would have been an achievement in itself. These successes and their resulting recognition and awards, the GSMA award for mobile BBC iPlayer, the Bafta nomination for /programmes and the .net awards for the redesigns would have been impossible without the amazing teams and people I had by my side at the BBC, I will miss them incredibly.
But for now it's on to the future and a new, much larger challenge, and one I hope and believe will be equally, if not more, stimulating and rewarding. Given the economic and sector transitions in media, publishing, commerce and technology - I have heard opportunity knocking - and can't help myself but open the door and let her in!
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It was a crazy crazy week in Barcelona for Global Mobile World Congress. I need the weekend just to digest the activities of the week. A couple of highlights:
- I was elected to serve on the Board of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF)
- BBC iPlayer won the GSMA award for best audio/video application (the industry's highest honor!) - congrats team.
In the midst of this
Interesting press clippings in no particular order:
One of my BBC teams - the BBC RAD unit got some great coverage
Nic Newman (one of my collegues) is quoted at a conference in Sydney.
Erik Huggers (my boss) interviewed in Silicon iPlayer perpetually in Beta
| 10 Dec 2008 12:28 |
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Net growth in Radio listenership
Nearly one third of UK adults now listening online, podcast audiences also up and iPlayer tops Google's growth chart
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This compares with 14.5m in May ‘08 when the biannual survey was last conducted. This includes 15m listening live and 13.5m listening at a later time using 'Listen Again' services such as iPlayer.
Three quarters of those Listen Again listeners said the service has no impact on the amount of live radio to which they listen; while almost half said they are now listening to radio programmes to which they did not listen previously.
iPlayer has also topped Google's chart for the fastest growing search terms, with growth above those recorded for the biggest hitters of 2007, Facebook and YouTube. 'BBC' was the second most popular search term in the UK, ahead of YouTube but behind Facebook.
Podcasting appears to have a positive effect on radio listening with 35% saying that they now listen to radio programmes to which they did not listen previously.
7.2m people have downloaded a podcast (up from 6m in May 2008), and 4.1m said they listened to a podcast each week (up from 3.7m in May ’08 and 1.9m in November 2007).
