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ITV is to integrate a live Twitter feed with the simulcast of the first episode of the latest series of Primeval on ITV.com.

Twitter users will be able to view other Primeval fans’ tweets about the programme’s first episode when it launches on 28 March via an embedded window below the player.

Fans of the series will also be able to view a seven minute online preview of the first episode 48 hours before its TV premiere, as part of an online push

When Boxee was forced to pull Hulu support a few weeks ago, users were outraged. And rightfully so. It’s not like Boxee, a software media center startup, was blocking the advertisements Hulu was showing, it was really just another way to view the content, almost like another browser. But the powers that be behind Hulu — that is, the big media companies that product the content — forced Hulu to shutdown the pipeline of content to Boxee. Today, that content is coming back … kind of. » Continue Reading…

An interesting development happened this week: Hulu  pulled access from the Boxee platform.  Boxee is a software package that offers IPTV to various set-top box devices.  For Hulu, Boxee was providing over 100,000 streams the week before it was pulled.  It wasn’t Hulu’s choice, but was pressure from the content providers.  Which leads me to the major point of this post: mainstream content owners don’t get it. » Continue Reading…

Channel4 in search of the lost TV viewer

According to research from Knowledge Networks one in five (21%) Internet users ages 13 to 54 now accesses streaming video to watch full episodes of TV programs – up from 10% in 2006.

Two-thirds (65%) of these “streamers” say they “expect” to be able to watch their favorite shows on “the device of my choice” – an expectation that reaches across generations, from 66% of teen “streamers” (ages 13 to 17) to 57% of those 50 to 54.

Source: knowledgeNetworks

According to Adweek, Google is quiting its Radio sales, only one month after they decided to kill their print sales.

What’s next? Stop search?