BBC iPlayer Reaches Five Million Unique Weekly Users

The British Broadcasting Corporation, the outfit behind the popular catch-up service iPlayer, has issued cease and desist orders to a pair of developers working on a third-party iPhone application for the iPlayer. BBC came to...

Korean consumer electronics giants Samsung has confirmed that it will be rolling out a range of televisions that will come with BBC's popular video on demand service, iPlayer. Speaking to the Telegraph, Erik Huggers, BBC Director...

BBC and Microsoft have apparently fallen out over the latter's wish to make the iPlayer feature available only for the Gold subscribers member of Xbox Live, something that the BBC says wouldn't be allowed.Emma Barnett from The...

Both ITV iPlayer and BBC's popular iPlayer video on demand services will be available on the rapidly growing Freesat Free to air satellite service over the next few months.The managing director of Freesat, Emma Scott, has...

The BBC is reportedly mulling over plans to come up with an international edition of its hugely popular iPlayer service, in a bid to allow global audience to catch up with some of its top shows, according to BBC Worldwide, the...

BSkyB has lambasted the BBC for using taxpayer’s money to invest into Project Canvas, a proposed joint venture involving some media heavyweights, such as the BBC, BT, ITV, and Five aimed at distributing content...

Erik Huggers, Director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC, told an audience at the IBC Conference in Amsterdam that the Beeb will be opening iPlayer to third parties.Huggers confirmed plans to push th concept of...

Google is reportedly in discussions with the UK broadcasting giant BBC about launching an international iteration of the broadcaster's signature BBC iPlayer service, supported by Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube,...

The BBC has relaunched its mobile BBC website to keep up with the widget-enabled desktop version of the BBC's website, although it is fully available to online users as well. The site is available at...

Sprucing up its offerings for its iPlayer services, BBC announced that it will be adding new high definition (HD) channel to its renowned on-demand video streaming service sometime around next month. Though there has been no...

Jazzing up its offerings for Mac and Linux users, BBC has introduced a new version of its iPlayer, which is now available for download for both Mac and Linux operating systems.  BBC, in conjunction with Adobe, has...

The BBC is about to open up the iPlayer platform to all the other major UK broadcasters as a result of the recent  public service broadcasting review ordered by Ofcom. According to the Guardian - which cites sources close...

In the first 50 days of operation, more than 17 million programmes have been watched or downloaded via the BBC's iPlayer according to Reuters (via the Guardian). That's more than 14,000 programmes per hour and the service has...

Myspace and the BBC have announced an agreement that will see the social networked owned by the Murdoch Empire distribute clips of the Beeb's most popular shows. The BBC has already struck a number of similar deals with the...

The Director of future media and technology at the BBC, Ashley Highfield, reckons that the new AppleTV could be a potential partner for the iPlayer. By getting iPlayer onto iTunes, the BBC would be able to leverage on its...