YouView

  • Video: YouView’s new TV ad

    Here’s a sneak peek at YouView’s new TV and print ads which debut this weekend. As previously reported, the campaign is built around the line ‘Catch up with your feet up’ and features pairs of feet in front of a TV screen and YouView set-top box to show how easy it is for viewers to…

  • YouView to launch new £10m ad campaign this weekend

    YouView has announced details of its new advertising campaign, due to debut during this Saturday’s X-Factor. As well as TV ads, the campaign will be supported by press, radio, digital and social media activity. The campaign will be built around the line ‘Catch up with your feet up’ and will feature pairs of feet in…

  • TalkTalk signs up 500,000 YouView customers

    TalkTalk signs up 500,000 YouView customers

    More than 500,000 customers have signed up for TalkTalk’s YouView-based TV service since it launched last year, the company announced on Wednesday. TalkTalk is one of seven shareholders in the TV platform which combines traditional aerial delivered channels with internet delivered on demand and catch-up content. Like rival and fellow shareholder BT, TalkTalk also offers…

  • YouView ‘expects to add 130 IPTV channels within 12 months’

    YouView ‘expects to add 130 IPTV channels within 12 months’

    More than 130 new channels are expected to launch on YouView within the next 12 months according to trade body digitaluk. News of the channels is contained in a document setting out proposed amendments to the numbering of channels on Digital Terrestrial Television (YouView and Freeview). The document states: “YouView (the IP television provider that…

  • S4C brings Welsh language shows to iPlayer, YouView and YouTube

    S4C brings Welsh language shows to iPlayer, YouView and YouTube

    Welsh language TV channel S4C has announced a major expansion in its online and on-demand content offerings. Launched in 1982, S4C is the UK’s fifth-oldest channel and is available via Sky, Freesat and Digital Terrestrial TV (Freeview and YouView). Under an agreement struck 3 years ago, it is now funded from the Licence Fee but…

  • BT finally launches BT Sport for retail YouView boxes

    BT finally launches BT Sport for retail YouView boxes

    Later than promised, BT has finally enabled owners of retail YouView boxes who also take a BT Infinity broadband connection to add its new sports channels to their package. As reported last week by seenit.co.uk, to order the channels box owners must pay a £49 activation fee and commit to a 12 month contract. Two…