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Ritch Sibthorpe Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 7:27 pmVery exciting news and good to see UK media brands exploiting opportunities to come together and create an online entertainment portal capable of delivering engaging long-form content.
It’ll be interesting to see which advertising model develops for Kangeroo given the conflict between the commercial ambitions of ITV and C4 compared to the public service responsibilities of the BBC. One would suspect that the BBC’s campaign to introduce online advertising and sponsorship is in no small way connected to the launch of Kangeroo…
Hollyoaks To Include Episodic Content For Internet and Mobiles | Teen Drama Online » Web TV & Video Says:
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:32 am[...] Channel 4 have already moved in to the field of online video, and attempted to increase their audience by making programmes available on 4OD, and the forthcoming Kangaroo. Now Hollyoaks could be increasing those options. [...]
TVCatchup Suspends Services After Complaints From Broadcasters Such As BBC, ITV, Channel 4 » Web TV Wire Says:
February 19th, 2008 at 12:24 pm[...] What’s clear is that British broadcasters are steadfastly trying to protect their content at all costs, and with the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV set to launch their joint service dubbed Kangaroo soon, they will go to great lengths to rid the web of any legally dubious competitors. 1f7c [...]
Kangaroo Faces Competition Commission | Joint BBC, ITV & Channel 4 Venture Delayed » Web TV Wire Says:
July 1st, 2008 at 8:39 am[...] Way back in November last year, the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 jointly announced their plans for an online video on demand venture strangely titled Kangaroo, with all three broadcasters taking an equal third share in the service. [...]
Sue Hemmings Says:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:16 amI think this is a great idea, but unfortunately they cannot broadcast on line programmes made by independant production companies.
Sue Hemmings Says:
August 15th, 2008 at 9:19 amI think this is a great idea unfotunately they will not be able to play programmes produced by independent production Companies.
james hinchliff Says:
August 27th, 2008 at 4:37 amSounds to good to be true. I live in Spain and over the last few weeks all hell has broken out with the withdrawal of the services offered by some rebroadcasting companies so any alternative offered by the internet could be a saviour for us expats.
Kangaroo Facing Evolution Or Death | Competition Commission Gives Verdict Says:
December 5th, 2008 at 6:11 pm[...] in November 2007, the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, four broadcasters in the UK, announced plans for a joint online video on demand venture. Kangaroo was meant to be an online version of Freeview [...]
Kangaroo Is Dead - BBC iPlayer For All On Way | BBC, ITV, Channel 4 Launch Project Canvas Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 10:34 am[...] and that’s exactly what seems to be being suggested will happen by the BBC. Rather than Kangaroo though, this will be Project [...]
Competition Commission Kills Kangaroo | Joint BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 Venture Dead Says:
February 4th, 2009 at 1:14 pm[...] Kangaroo was first announced way back in November, 2007. The joint venture between Britain’s three most popular [...]
Project Canvas Edges Closer | The BBC, ITV, & BT Plan Internet-enabled Set-top Boxes Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 11:46 pm[...] Kangaroo was envisioned as a one-stop online video portal which would have put content from the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 into one central place. Unfortunately, due to complaints from BSkyB and cable companies, the project was forcibly canned. [...]
Orange Could Buy Project Kangaroo Technology To Build Up Orange TV In Europe Says:
April 12th, 2009 at 5:34 pm[...] was huge buzz last year surrounding Project Kangaroo, a new online video-on-demand service from the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4. This joint venture between [...]
Hulu UK On Way To Start The International Roll-Out | A World Exists Outside The U.S. Says:
May 21st, 2009 at 12:41 pm[...] whole concept seems to have been borne out of the collapse of Project Kangaroo, an effort to draw content from the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 together and offer it in one place. [...]
Channel 4 Evolving Online TV Catch-Up Service | 4oD Moves To Web, Includes Free Archive Says:
June 12th, 2009 at 10:47 pm[...] is part of the reason that all three broadcasters were working together on Project Kangaroo, the ill-fated attempt to provide U.K. viewers with a one-stop shop for content from all three of [...]
Hulu UK Is “Number One Priority” | September Launch For International Hulu Possible Says:
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:31 pm[...] assumption that Hulu was moving into the UK market to cash in on the collapse of Kangaroo, the joint online video project between the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4. Which makes the Competition Commission’s decision to [...]
Arqiva Buys Kangaroo Infrastructure | Free & Pay-To-View Video On Demand Service On Way Says:
July 29th, 2009 at 6:23 pm[...] was a joint project between the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 which was intended to bring together content from the three [...]
Microsoft Launches Online TV Service | MSN Video Player To Rival BBC iPlayer & Hulu Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 4:37 pm[...] the view the Competition Commission took when it ordered Project Kangaroo, a joint project between the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, to be shut down before it had even got [...]
MSN Video Player Review | Microsoft Online Video Streaming Service Vs. iPlayer & Hulu Says:
August 6th, 2009 at 2:52 pm[...] in a big way. The iPlayer continues to dominate but in the aftermath of the decision to quash Project Kangaroo, competition is [...]
Online Video Driving Broadband Take Up | BBC iPlayer Viewing Figures Increase To 5 Million Says:
August 9th, 2009 at 5:48 pm[...] offerings will soon be joined by Arqiva, which recently bought the infrastructure of Project Kangaroo and immediately promised to use it to launch a video-on-demand service in the next few months. And [...]
Microsoft’s Ashley Highfield Claims TV Facing ‘iTunes Moment’ With Apple The Bad Guy Says:
August 31st, 2009 at 9:36 pm[...] oversaw the launch of the BBC iPlayer service, initially only on Windows, and was the CEO of Project Kangaroo, the joint venture between the BBC, ITV, and Channel [...]
BBC Open iPlayer For All | Catch-Up Television On-Demand For All, Even International Viewers Says:
September 13th, 2009 at 10:13 am[...] BBC was part of Project Kangaroo, alongside ITV and Channel 4, working to create a one-stop shop for mainstream catch-up television [...]
Sky News Online For All As Canvas Criticism Published | Murdoch A Fan Of Free After All? Says:
October 14th, 2009 at 9:19 pm[...] came Project Kangaroo, a joint online video on demand venture from the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4. Things were going well [...]
Can Arqiva’s SeeSaw Video On Demand Service Succeed? | Competing With iPlayer, Hulu Etc. Says:
October 18th, 2009 at 10:07 pm[...] Project Kangaroo was killed at birth, there was little that the BBC and its partners could do but sell off the assets. This included the technology, infrastructure, and [...]