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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The success of the BBC iPlayer is proof that the corporation is right to bet its future on the internet, its director of future media and technology, Erik Huggers , said yesterday. Huggers also announced that the online TV catch-up service has served 248m items of content since it launched officially on Christmas Day last year. Speaking at Screen Digest's conference on the future...
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
-- BBC.co.uk : BBC online chief Erik Huggers wants BBC.co.uk to become Auntie's second-biggest channel after BBC One by 2012. Currently, site traffic is "a drop in the ocean" compared to the TV and radio audience at 18.1 million users a month ( comScore , Sep 08), Huggers told the European Media Leaders Summit ( via PG ). So there's "a lot of growth left". -- History Channel on...
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ABC Digital Futures (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
The BBC’s website should be its second biggest channel in terms of audiences and reach by 2012. According to Press Gazette, BBC director of future media and technology, Erik Huggers, hopes there’s still “lots of growth left in the system” for the BBC website to overtake the audience of every other BBC channel except BBC One [...]
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Paul Stallard's Technology PR Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
According to a piece on Brand Republic the BBC has dropped out of the top five most popular UK websites in the past month, after Facebook jumped above it. Although I was initially surprised to read this when I actually thought about it I wasn’t that shocked. Erik Huggers, the BBC’s director of future media and [...]
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E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
The BBC has announced plans to introduce social networking across its websites in order to regain its position as one of the top five sites in the UK. According to Erik Huggers, the BBC's director of future media and technology,...
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
BBC Future Media & Technology (FM&T) controller Erik Huggers and COO Kerstin Mogull are shuffling some chairs, in what looks like further multimedia integration and a response to BBC.co.uk overspending. The move will extend FM&T execs in to each of the BBC's other content units (Vision, Audio & Music and Mobile Media), NMA said - though a BBC spokesperson told paidContent:UK it's not...
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Mac World UK (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
BBC's technology director discusses plans for iPlayer Erik Huggers, Director of BBC Future Media & Technology, outlined the plans for the future of the iPlayer, the BBC’s popular catch-up online media player, during a keynote at Screen Digest’s The Future of Online Media Distribution conference.
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Overseas web TV viewers could soon be watching Eastenders or Dr Who on the BBC's VOD iPlayer , says the Beeb's director of new media and technology, Erik Huggers. Speaking at Screen Digest 's conference on the future of online distribution (via MediaGuardian ), he said that the iPlayer had built up 248 million views since its Christmas Day launch last year and said the barriers to non-UK...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Machine intelligence is predicted to exceed that of humans as soon as 2030. Of course computers already outperform us on some tasks, and science fiction has given us a foretaste of what life will be like when they finally leave us behind Related Stories Erik Huggers sets out plans for BBC iPlayer's future Celebrity Squares: Actor and Writer Gunnar Hansen Samsung tops the US phone market...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Overseas web TV viewers could soon be watching Eastenders or Dr Who on the BBC's VOD iPlayer says the Beeb's director of new media and technology, Erik Huggers. Speaking at Screen Digest 's conference on the future of online distribution (via MediaGuardian ), he said that the iPlayer had built up 248 million views since its Christmas Day launch last year and said the barriers to non-UK...
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paidContent:UK (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Overseas web TV viewers could soon be watching Eastenders or Dr Who on the BBC's VOD iPlayer says the Beeb's director of new media and technology, Erik Huggers. Speaking at Screen Digest 's conference on the future of online distribution (via MediaGuardian ), he said that the iPlayer had built up 248 million views since its Christmas Day launch last year and said the barriers to non-UK...
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The Apple Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... episodes for play in Windows Media Player - it’s still not an option for Mac users. However, Erik Huggers is the man set to change all that. He’s the BBC’s verbosely-titled Director of Future Media and Technology and a veteran of Microsoft, having spent nine years with the Apple-competitor. (more…)
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Moco News (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Erik Huggers is shifting the BBC's mobile controller Matthew Postgate to be its research and innovation controller. The Beeb said Postgate will be working with industry and academia to create a long-term strategy focused on broadband; he is to build long-term relationships with universities and research institutes. The BBC's R&D unit - which has brought us Nicam, Teletext, DAB, colour...
