YouView

  • TalkTalk returns to growth with YouView, fibre and mobile signups

    TalkTalk returns to growth with YouView, fibre and mobile signups

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    TalkTalk has returned to growth in the third quarter, adding 10,000 broadband customers. The company saw a slight reduction in churn – the measure of customers moving to rivals – which fell from 1.6% to 1.5%. In November TalkTalk announced it had sold 29,000 YouView customers since launching the product in September, today it confirmed…

  • BT announces 60,000 YouView users and 281,000 fibre sign-ups

    BT announces 60,000 YouView users and 281,000 fibre sign-ups

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    BT has added a further 281,000 fibre broadband customers and signed up more than 60,000 customers to its YouView TV service, according to the firm’s quarterly trading update. The company now has “around 1.25m million” residential and business fibre broadband customers, roughly ten percent of the number currently able to access the service. Fibre broadband,…

  • Music video giant Vevo could launch on YouView this year

    Music video giant Vevo could launch on YouView this year

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    YouView, Virgin Media and Sky customers could gain access to thousands of music videos this year after Vevo CEO Rio Caraeff signalled the company’s interest in connected TV platforms. The City A.M newspaper reports Mr Caraeff as naming the three platforms as potential partners. The newspaper quotes him as saying: “You’ll see at least a…

  • YouView software update adds EPG search

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    YouView has begun rolling out its latest software update, bringing the ability to search live TV content for the next seven days and support for Dolby surround sound over HDMI. Developed by BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva, BT and Talk Talk, YouView combines subscription-free broadcast channels with broadband delivered content from catch-up services…

  • BT recruits Samantha Bond to push YouView

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    Former Miss Moneypenny actress Samantha Bond has been recruited by BT to help promote its YouView TV service. The actress played Moneypenny in four films opposite Pierce Brosnan. She has since guest-starred in ITV’s Downton Abbey and last year starred alongside Omid Djalili, Tim McInnerny and Georgia Moffett in a new production of Joe Orton’s…

  • YouView goes to Hollyoaks

    YouView goes to Hollyoaks

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    The Osborne family from Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks get to grips with their new YouView set top box in this new video from the free-to-air TV provider. Developed by BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva, BT and Talk Talk, YouView combines subscription-free broadcast channels with broadband delivered content from catch-up services such as the…