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BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits
News More than 3.5 million BBC programmes have been watched using the BBC's online on-demand iPlayer TV service during the fortnight after Christmas Day. The programmes were watched by more than one million visitors using the iPlayer during the same... [15 Jan 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets Christmas bonus
News The BBC's iPlayer website saw a 14-fold increase in traffic during the festive period. Since its launch, iPlayer has attracted criticism as the download version was only available on Microsoft's Windows XP. [10 Jan 2008]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile His most notable achievement this year is the long-awaited launch of the BBC's iPlayer, which allows viewers to download Beeb programmes up to seven days after transmission and then watch them for up to 30 days before being automatically deleted. [12 Oct 2007]
BBC, ITV and C4 team up for on-demand TV
News Although the BBC launched its iPlayer service in July and ITV and Channel 4 both have their own on-demand services, Kangaroo is intended to complement these with the addition of archived content. The broadcasters will share the costs of developing... [28 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service. iPlayer uses peer-to-peer technology for the download service, allowing content to be downloaded from the nearest point in the network, meaning not all content has to come... [05 Mar 2008]
BBC's new media boss talks web 3.0
News Understandably, he spoke about initiatives such as the Beeb's on-demand TV service iPlayer, which puts a rolling seven days' worth of BBC TV content on tap to anyone online in the UK. The last two years, during much of the development of iPlayer... [03 Jul 2007]
Carphone Warehouse plans broadband boost
News Bandwidth-draining apps such as the BBC iPlayer may also be causing ISPs to scratch their heads over their broadband strategies, he added. Exclusive Special Report: CIO Agenda 2008 Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008... [09 May 2008]
Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit
Comment As head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology unit Ashley Highfield, one of this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters, is responsible for dragging the Beeb into the digital age through initiatives such as the iPlayer. [30 Oct 2007]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News Key projects include the BBC iPlayer, which will allow 'catch-up' TV up to seven days after it is broadcast; putting the BBC programme catalogue online; and overhauling the organisation's websites and investigating blogs. [19 Sep 2006]
Facebook founder tops Agenda Setters list
News Reflecting the increasing role of web 2.0, the BBC's director of future media and technology, Ashley Highfield (5), rose three places, primarily for his work around the iPlayer online TV service. Zuckerberg topped the eighth annual silicon.com 2007... [17 Oct 2007]
