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I was lucky enough to attend this year’s Royal Television Society Conference at the Barbican and am in the process of sharing my notes from the event. Here’s the second set, covering the digital Olympics and lessons for Rio. This was a panel discussion featuring Tessa Jowell (UK Government), Ralph Rivera (BBC Future Media), Cindy Rose (Virgin Media), Alex Balfour (Head of New Media, Olympic Games) & Mike Darcey (COO, BSkyB). As an aside, why is it that so many Heads of Digital in this country are from the USA? We have fabulous digital skills in the UK and I question the need to go abroad. Must be the accent. Anyway... Only 13% of UK citizens didn’t watch any Olympic coverage. 97% of viewing was live and the median viewer watched 2 hours per day. Quality was the most common reason given for watching on TV versus other mediums – why watch live online when live on broadcast is so much nicer. The BBC’s coverage was the most comprehensive ever. All sports were covered and availabl...

I’m of the belief that participants in the TMT industry need to read widely in order to understand the present and future dynamics of the market. To that end, this post is a collection of the articles that have caught my eye. This week: BBC turns to Adobe for Olympian effort, Facebook rapidly turning into disaster, Apple quarterlies, MS avoids $1000 tablet howler Digital media A really interesting article on how the BBC is using Adobe Primetime to stream the huge volumes of video generated by the Olympics. Adobe are really on the up. I hear great things about their products in digital video and electronic publishing. Time to buy? http://gigaom.com/video/london-olympic-games-bbc-adobe/ iPhone is the best platform for mobile advertising; rich media is the most effective ad medium on mobile... but it’s expensive to make, Opera... An interesting set of statistics, nonetheless. http://www.opera.com/sma/2012/q2/ Corporates find Twitter more appealing than Facebook for their social ...