Hold the phones! Sony staff told to keep off company devices after hack
Signs in Sony Pictures’ London HQ reminding workers to avoid company-issued email and mobiles show disruption caused by Guardians of Peace
Alien v Doctor Who – with a touch of Nick Frost as Santa
Show’s lead writer, Steven Moffat, says he felt no need to seek permission from makers of 1979 film for Christmas Day special
YouTube’s next big challenger could be Vessel and its ‘early access’ videos
US startup says YouTubers and media companies will be able to earn ‘20x’ more revenues from its online subscription service
Sky Sports channels now available to BT customers with YouView boxes
Competition Appeal Tribunal makes ruling four years after Ofcom forced Sky to offer rivals 23% discount for Sky Sports 1 and 2
Ofcom report identifies emerging ‘generation gap’ in young people’s TV viewing
Media regulator highlights shift in viewing habits as people aged 16-24 move away from traditional platforms and online consumption grows
From Mary Berry to Xbox Studios, the big winners and losers of 2014
Boris Johnson and Nick Clegg helped LBC to go national, and BBC3 prepared to fall off the TV schedules
Netflix plans a new show every fortnight – as well as its own feature films
News: As well as aiming at 20 original series per year, the streaming service also announces it could focus on making films of its own, rather than spending more on rights to Hollywood movies
YouTube’s biggest hits of 2014: mutant spider-dog, singing nuns and sexism
YouTube reveals its top 10 trending videos of 2014. Also includes kissing, footballers, a bendy iPhone 6 and a devil baby roaming New York
PewDiePie, Zoella and who else? What the UK watched on YouTube in 2014
Online video service reveals the 20 channels that signed up most new British subscribers, with gaming and vlogging to the fore
The TV is dead, long live television
Vicky Frost: We might be turning off our sets, but the format is thriving – we’re just consuming it in different ways
Number of UK homes with TV falls for first time
Ofcom says one million homes have broadband without a TV, indicating phones and tablets are being used to view content
YouTube studio Rooster Teeth launches ‘family-friendly’ Game Kids channel
Gaming and children’s entertainment are both big on YouTube, so new channel aims to combine the two
BBC launches Technobabble tool for children to make their own games
Site is aimed at 7-14 year-old digital makers: ‘The only requirements are access to the web, a willingness to experiment and an idea’
UK set to be first country in which more than half of ad spend goes digital
More than 50% of £15.7bn advertiser spend will go on digital and online media in 2015 beating print, cinema, buses, billboards, TV and radio combined
BitTorrent takes on Netflix and Amazon with its first original TV series
Sci-fi show Children of the Machine will be a free, ad-supported download, with options for fans to buy it ad-free