Virgin, Perform sports e-player

Perform, the UK-based digital sport and entertainment specialist and Virgin Media have confirmed the launch of e-Player, a free-to-view multi-channel video player delivering sports highlights and video clips across the web.
e-Player will be made available to digital publishers in the UK and embedded into websites to deliver a range of sports highlights and video clips, updated daily. The multi-channel player offers selected highlights from Virgin Media’s Barclays Premier League and Coca-Cola Football League match content, as well as a portfolio of sports channels from Perform’s Omnisport.tv brand, including European Football Leagues and international football plus tennis, golf, rugby, cricket, darts and basketball content.............................................more

US mobile data outpaces Europe

Usage of the mobile web data is gaining traction in the US at such a rate that in the next month it will surpass the UK. The data was released by Bango, which helps publishers track usage of mobile Web sites. Bango identified the top five countries based on the percent of user visits to mobile Websites in July 2008:
- UK (19.35 per cent)
- US (18.88 per cent)
- India (10.82 per cent)
- South Africa (8.82 per cent)
- Indonesia (4.08 per cent).................................................more

BBC ad supported downloads

BBC Worldwide plans to launch an ad-supported online music service, offering both free and paid-for access to the BBC's archive of audio and video music content. The launch of such a service will take the BBC into direct competition with the likes of Apple's iTunes, Amazon and Sky, which will launch a subscription music service later this year.
There are plans to exploit the BBC's full range of 15,000 separate music programmes, meaning the service could offer around 50,000 music audio tracks eventually and 3,000 hours of video content................................................more