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BBC reveals mind control experiment – for choosing what to watch next

Broadcaster’s latest prototype taps viewers’ brainwaves to choose what to choose next on its iPlayer catch-up service

Wheels on the Bus beats One Direction in Little Baby Bum’s YouTube rise

British channel’s compilation of nursery rhymes has been watched more than 655m times, sending it into YouTube all-time top 30

YouTube Minecraft channel The Diamond Minecart visits Jurassic World

British gamer Daniel Middleton gets his dino on, courtesy of a sponsorship partnership with film studio Universal Pictures

YouTube Gaming to capitalise on PewDiePie, Minecraft and live videos

New spin-off will launch in the summer as a site and app, gathering YouTube games videos in one place, and taking on Amazon’s Twitch

Kids’ TV becomes the final frontier in clash of the pay-TV empires

The BBC, Sky, Netflix and others are battling to gain younger viewers on platforms that stretch from the TV in your living to the smartphone in your hand

YouTube star PewDiePie strikes publishing deal for This Book Loves You

With 37m YouTube subscribers, Swedish gamer teams up with Penguin Random House for 250-page collection of ‘advice and inspirational quotes’

Will oddball BBC iPlayer exclusives lead to blander TV schedules?

Online-only shows such as Frankie Boyle’s Election Autopsy and Adam Curtis’s Bitter Lake prove that there’s still room to experiment on the BBC. But what happens if the odder shows are never broadcast on the main channels?

BBC stars and comics among hundreds calling on broadcaster to save BBC3

Daniel Radcliffe and Lena Headey among 750 signatories of petition urging BBC to reverse decision to take BBC3 off TV screens and make it online only

YouTube trains its sights on traditional TV: ‘It’s a no-growth business’

Head of content and business operations, Robert Kyncl says the future for online video is small screens: ‘It’s all mobile, mobile, mobile’

YouTube promises more measures to tame its comment trolls

‘One of the hardest things to do is scaling openness, whether you run an internet platform or whether you run a country,’ claims Robert Kyncl

BBC iPlayer boss defensive after third monthly fall in viewers

After Peter Kay’s Car Share is the most requested show in April, Dan Taylor-Watt blogs about the catch-up service’s decrease in popularity

BBC global audience passes 300 million

Television overtakes radio as most popular platform for international news for first time in corporation’s history

We can treasure the BBC, but it has to make its own way in the digital world

There’s fear over what new culture secretary Whittingdale might do about the licence fee, but the last thing the BBC needs is to be kept in a gilded cage

Dragons, nipples and technology: why the real Mad Men are on the run

As audiences lunge toward online streaming services in search of their favorite shows, the modern advertising landscape could shift to abandon TV as well

Election aftermath: memos to the media for May 2020

What have we learned at the end of a surprising campaign? Quite a lot that will really matter at the end of the next parliament

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