Top Gear and Doctor Who dominate record ratings for BBC iPlayer
A record 3bn television and radio programmes were accessed on the BBC's iPlayer last year, with half of the top 20 TV shows made up of BBC2's Top Gear. The first part of an Africa special of the Jeremy Clarkson motoring show was requested 3.4m times on the BBC's on-demand service, making it the most popular iPlayer programme in 2013, the corporation has revealed. The 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who was its third most popular show, followed by an episode of BBC3's Jack Whitehall comedy Bad Education, which was boosted by being made available online before transmission.
What's next after WhatsApp: a guide to the future of messaging apps
Facebook’s $19bn deal points to the internet’s future, but from Viber’s domination to upstart Kik, WhatsApp is hardly uniqueEmail
Facebook’s $19bn acquisition of WhatsApp this week does much more than measure the breadth of Mark Zuckerberg’s spending power and his company’s ambition. It should highlight how important one of the most basic forms of digital communication – messaging – is to the internet’s future.
Here’s the first thing about all of this you should know: while US companies obviously have significant purchasing power, American startups are in some ways behind the global curve; much of the innovation is happening thousands of miles away from Menlo Park. And here’s the second thing: WhatsApp’s competitors make its current revenue model look really, really sluggish.
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