Orange Looking To Join Project Canvas
Written by seolinkvine27 on July 22nd, 2010 in Uncategorized.
The Mobile phone company Orange is considering signing up to join BBC backed Project examine venture to free rein VoD serves to the Freeview and Freesat platforms.
If Orange can strike a deal then it will secure the number of Project Canvas mate?s back to seven afterwards Channel Five pulled out last week.
Last year Orange was looking at buying the engineering behind the now defunct Project Kangaroo venture, the broadband TV joint venture between ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC, it was to encourage its Orange broadband service and offer a more attrractive software package to its customers.
The company pulled out and Arqiva certain a deal, subsequently using it to souse online TV service SeeSaw. Arqiva is also a partner in Project Canvas.
“Orange has definitely held talks with them, they have been keen to be involved for some time although I conjecture it went cold for a while when they decided to wholly focus on the integration with T-Mobile,” said one industry source. “Last year they looked at Kangaroo.”
BT, which runs the BT Vision VoD service, and TalkTalk are Project Canvas partners, while both BSkyB and Virgin Media have their own conventional pay-TV and VoD offerings.
In May the Project Canvas director, Richard Halton, said that the venture was quest another partner for a company that can add “scale and expertise to the platform … it is a question of finding an organisation that shares the aims of the venture”.
An Ofcom spokesman said: “We have not received a complaint about Canvas, but if one were to be made to us on competition grounds we would consider it carefully working closely with the OFT.”
When we look at the Comscore Video Metrix results each month for online tv traffic, the plebeian suspects are always there and Hulu plus Youtube are always glued in at position 1 and 2. But Netflix have surprised everyone by cower forrader of the mighty Hulu as the race to gravel the most watched live internet TV and moving-picture show website intensifies.
ComScore’s figures show that the number of unique visitors to for June was 20.2 million for Netflix, which jumped above Hulu’s 19.7 million.
So why is this important? Hulu have now launched their subscription service, called Hulu Plus. putt it in direct competition with the Netflix service. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see Netflix break into the top 10 movie streaming sites by the end of the year, and really start to put pressure on Hulu next year.
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