'Moments and opportunities': interstitials and the promotional imagination of BBC iPlayer

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Grainge, Paul (2017) 'Moments and opportunities': interstitials and the promotional imagination of BBC iPlayer. Critical Studies in Television, 12 (2). pp. 139-155. ISSN 1749-6039

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Official URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1749602017698158

Abstract

This article examines the promotion of the BBC’s online streaming and download service, iPlayer, as it has been presented to audiences through broadcast television. Analysing transitions in the BBC’s representation of iPlayer, it considers the promotional imagination of the service during the 2010s, a period when the Corporation was striving to communicate its digital identity and broaden iPlayer within mainstream use. Through industrial–textual analysis, the essay considers the paratextual function of iPlayer interstitials, and the relation of on-air promos to the Corporation’s internal strategy for the service in moving ‘beyond PC, beyond catch-up, beyond the early-adopter’.

Item Type:	Article
RIS ID:	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/862993
Keywords:	BBC iPlayer; interstitials, on-demand television; paratexts; promos; public service broadcasting
Schools/Departments:	University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies > Department of Culture, Film and Media
Identification Number:	10.1177/1749602017698158
Depositing User:	Grainge, Dr Paul
Date Deposited:	10 Jul 2017 09:43
Last Modified:	04 May 2020 18:47
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/44037

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