YouView's hometown was again the beautiful backdrop for a fantastic week of channel tuning sport last week at the former Olympic Stadium. I had the pleasure of taking up a seat to see established heroes and rising stars battle it out for glory at the IAAF World Championships. Standing in that inspiring stadium, consumed with the noise and energy of the crowd, it took my mind back to July 2012 and the day before the Olympic opening ceremony, when after many months of our own blood, sweat and tears, our first generation set top box hit the stores of John Lewis on Oxford Street. Five years on, it seems timely to give you an update on all things YouView and our achievements in our short history.
With nearly three million connected YouView devices in active use up and down the country, we have grown in scale, grown our portfolio of content and grown the functions and features that give our viewers an ever-improving television experience. YouView has always been at the forefront of innovation in the market; only a few weeks ago we announced the start of our pilot to enable a voice controlled YouView experience as one of the first developers in the world to work with the new Alexa Video Skill API. Our landmark free Next Generation upgrade brought all of our set top box viewers a new, slicker and faster experience powered by our new cloud infrastructure, we were the first broadcast platform of scale in the UK to fully embrace the technology across the whole platform. Shortly after that, yet another first as we became the inaugural home for Sony's Kids Player. But we have always been pioneers launching Europe's first Ultra HD set top box and the UK's first 4k-streamed channel, our first television integration with a ground-breaking partnership with Sony TV and the first platform to go live with the BBC's Red Button+ Service ahead of the Rio Olympic games.
We're delighted with the reaction thus far to Next Generation YouView and thrilled to receive industry recognition too. Just last week we were shortlisted for the DTVE Content Innovation Awards in the category of Advanced TV Innovation of the Year' following a double win at the Mediatel Connies Awards Gold for International Contribution to User Experience' and Silver for Best TV/Video Service Update or Launch', and shortlisted for the TV Connect Best Cloud-Based Video Service' Award.
Supported by our shareholders, some of the best-known media and telecoms businesses in the UK, we are delighted to be able to support and drive their ambitions. This is reflected in our combined achievements which have brought home the silverware too TalkTalk won the public choice Award for TV Provider of the Year' at this year's uSwitch Awards and we powered the BT win for Best Content Discovery Service' at the TV Connect Awards.
The capability of our Next Generation platform goes well beyond the new interface and you will see more from us in the coming months as we really leverage our cloud capability. Alongside our consistently positive CSAT scores with near 90% of our viewers being satisfied with their viewer experience, we now have a better understanding of not only what our viewers watch but how they find it across Linear, PVR and On Demand. To give you just a flavour, of those that watched the live broadcast of the documentary I Am Bolt' on YouView, 60% of them then tuned in to the live Athletics on the night of Saturday 5th August, the evening of the 100m final. YouView now has a pivotal role to play in enhancing understanding of the UK consumer and how they make choices about how they consume media.
Recent industry announcements from Facebook and YouTube on their TV streaming services only underline the importance of YouView as a UK content aggregator. Providing a neutral platform to showcase both free and pay content is vital and we're delighted to see so many content providers realise that benefit, with more to come.
All of our achievements are only possible by the just over 200 highly skilled individuals working at YouView to give great content the best experience. As the team has grown over the years we have championed new talent, developing our internship and graduate schemes giving opportunity to the innovators of the future, both of which I am pleased to say are over subscribed every year. We continue to look for great talent as we build the team.
Thank you for taking the time to keep up to date and I look forward to sharing more news with you again soon.
Regards,
Richard
To keep up to date with all that is YouView please go to https://www.youview.com/press-and-news/ or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Most recent headlines
06/10/2025
France T l visions, France's leading broadcaster, has received the 2025 EBU ...
04/09/2025
Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE), in collaboration with Dalet, has been a...
30/08/2025
WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission has adopted its FY 2025 Regulatory Fees Order that establishes the regulatory fee rates for the broadcast stati...
29/08/2025
Australian Red Cross and SBS launch training to help workplaces in the fight aga...
29/08/2025
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sp...
29/08/2025
L3Harris Technologies has concentrated decades of expertise across the entire enterprise to develop affordable and reliable best-of-breed solutions to rapidly c...
29/08/2025
BURBANK, Calif. The CW Network and the Pac-12 Conference have announced a new media rights deal that will extend their broadcast partnership beginning with the ...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK Gracenote has released a new analysis of its global video dataset showing that the number of FAST channels grew nearly 14% from Q1 2025 and 76% since 2...
29/08/2025
SAN JOSE, Calif. Harmonic has announced a series of improvements to its live sports streaming solution that the company said will improve fan engagement, protec...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES Fox Corp. and YouTube TV last night announced a renewal of the full portfolio of Fox networks, including Fox News Channel, Fox Business...
29/08/2025
Budapest, Hungary, August 2025 - The integration of Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) with Lightware's Taurus universal matrix switchers delivers a new level of f...
29/08/2025
Frequency, the engine behind many of the world's best-known streaming television channels, today announced it will launch Studio Live, a next-generation uni...
29/08/2025
In an era when AI and cyber resilience are essential, Scality will mark the 10th anniversary of Scality Day on October 16, 2025 in Paris. This flagship global e...
29/08/2025
Disguise's In-House Creative and Technical Teams Pre-Visualised, Programmed and Delivered Content for the Experience, All Powered by EX 3+
Technology solu...
29/08/2025
Disguise will be demonstrating the latest workflows for TV, film and live events on a number of partner booths at the show
Disguise, the industry-leading tech...
29/08/2025
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Accedo will showcase Accedo Compose, its AI agent-powered modular orchestration layer that assists streaming providers in transitioning client...
29/08/2025
LOS ANGELES Cineverse has announced that it is working with Xperi to bring four of its streaming channels to automobiles for the first time as part of the DTS A...
29/08/2025
DALLAS & ATLANTA Gray Media has announced an agreement with the sports streaming service Victory+ to simulcast 17 Dallas Stars NHL games in 15 television market...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK AND CULVER CITY Comcast NBCUniversal and Amazon have announced new and extended distribution agreements that will expand the content available on their...
29/08/2025
FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. RED Digital Cinema will feature its Cine-Broadcast Module supporting live broadcast workflows during IBC2025, Sept. 12-15, at the RAI Ams...
29/08/2025
29 Aug 2025
Kyivstar Rings Opening Bell at Nasdaq Marking Landmark Listing and ...
29/08/2025
More than half of all NFL games live on Sky for the first timeFriday 29 August 2025
Sky Sports has announced a new three-year deal with the NFL, extending its ...
29/08/2025
Back to All News
RIV4LRIES: The Trailer of the New Series With Samuele Carrino ...
29/08/2025
Get ready for an inspiring and emotional insight into the world of competitive Irish dancing with My Story: Tomi Champion of the World airing on RT 2 this monda...
29/08/2025
RT has today announced that David McCullagh is to be the new presenter of RT Radio 1's flagship Today programme, which airs every weekday at 10am, replaci...
28/08/2025
By Kristin Feeley, Director, Documentary Film & Artist Programs
If you want to tell untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got ...
28/08/2025
Directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, Sundance Institute-supported Amer...
28/08/2025
Corridos have been a cornerstone of M sica Mexicana for generations, telling stories rooted in everyday life. Now, a new chapter is taking shape: motivational c...
28/08/2025
Los corridos han sido un pilar de la M sica Mexicana durante generaciones, contando historias enraizadas en la vida cotidiana. Ahora, un nuevo cap tulo est tom...
28/08/2025
Earlier this month, we promised our Verano Forever party would bring the heat, a...
28/08/2025
L3Harris will provide the Polish F-16V fleet with the Viper Shield electronic warfare system as part of an upgrade program....
28/08/2025
Bilbao, August 26, 2025 - AgileTV, an international television and video technol...
28/08/2025
Ken Wilkinson is an Emmy Awards nominated New York audio engineer who specialises in production sound mixing for film, commercial, episodic and documentary work...
28/08/2025
NEW YORK FuboTV today announced that it will launch Fubo Sports, a skinny bundle that focuses on sports with a subscription price of $56 monthly....
28/08/2025
NEVADA City, Calif. At IBC2025, Sept. 12-15 at the RAI Amsterdam, Telestream will debut its new Global Ingest strategy, introducing a next-generation ingest arc...
28/08/2025
Dr. Rhoda Bernard Releases Groundbreaking Debut Book on Accessible Arts Educatio...
28/08/2025
TAG Video Systems, the leader in software-based IP end-to-end workflow monitoring, deep probing, and real-time visualization, has named Oliver Gappa as Sales Di...
28/08/2025
AI-based voice enhancement will be among a series of innovations making their IBC 2025 debut on the DHD stand B46 in Hall 8 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Cent...
28/08/2025
Telef nica Servicios Audiovisuales (TSA), the leading system integrator and service provider in the media sector in Spain, with the support of Appear, the globa...
28/08/2025
To fully immerse sailing fans in the world's biggest offshore yacht race, production company, Optical Media turned to LiveU's On-site Production solutio...
28/08/2025
Working with Calrec on its most recent overhaul, radio and television broadcaster, WNED has migrated to a fully IP infrastructure with multiple Type R consoles,...
28/08/2025
Cleeng, the Subscriber Retention Management (SRM ) inventor, has unveiled Cleeng Pro, the first-ever direct-to-consumer (D2C) subscription management platform t...
28/08/2025
Zixi, the industry leader in live broadcast-quality video over IP, today announced that French media distribution platform OKAST has selected Zixi to enable rel...
28/08/2025
Solution offers a streamlined, speaker-free architecture to optimize integration with premium external loudspeakers and advanced loudness metering
Nixer Pro Au...
28/08/2025
Cinegy, the premier provider of software-defined television technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Vision One Touch Film Production Services L.L...
28/08/2025
Telestream, a global leader in media workflow technologies, will debut its new Global Ingest strategy at IBC2025, introducing a next-generation ingest architect...
28/08/2025
Tier 1 operator selects Broadpeak to power high-performance, unified CDN solution across Norway, Sweden and Finland
Broadpeak, a leader in streaming and moneti...
28/08/2025
Leading video software provider, Synamedia, today announced that 24 Frames Digital, one of India's leading live event streaming service providers, has chose...
28/08/2025
Meet VisualOn at IBC2025: See What's Next in AI-Powered Video Streaming Join VisualOn at IBC2025 and discover how our AI-driven Optimizer and advanced media...
YouView's hometown was again the beautiful backdrop for a fantastic week of channel tuning sport last week at the former Olympic Stadium. I had the pleasure of taking up a seat to see established heroes and rising stars battle it out for glory at the IAAF World Championships. Standing in that inspiring stadium, consumed with the noise and energy of the crowd, it took my mind back to July 2012 and the day before the Olympic opening ceremony, when after many months of our own blood, sweat and tears, our first generation set top box hit the stores of John Lewis on Oxford Street. Five years on, it seems timely to give you an update on all things YouView and our achievements in our short history.
