ITV.com Discussion Thread

It matters...why?

What part of illogical did you fail to understand?

They are ugly. They are not professional. The list goes on.

All I'm saying is surely there are more things on a website to look at other than a bloomin' link address. It has no reflection on what almost every person visiting the site thinks, they just click they don't care less what the link itself says. Like my link here says http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&p=496800

Yes, very interesting.

Forums are different in my opinion. Now shut up and stop arguing with me, we have differing opinions, end of.

MediaGuardian story from today:

ITV is understood to be on the brink of signing a deal with Google to provide search services across its newly relaunched ITV.com website.

The deal, which would see Google replace existing search provider Yahoo!, is earmarked to start when the rollout of the new website is completed - tentatively predicted to be at the end of the month.

Monetising the website beyond display and sponsorship advertising will be vital to ITV when it completes the £20m relaunch of ITV.com.

The deal could also open the door for a wide-ranging partnership including using Google Video or YouTube as a "shop front" for clips of ITV shows along the lines of a deal struck by the BBC in March.

In December last year, Google struck a deal with Sky to provide search, email and other services, including a video-sharing website called SkyCast.

Google, which also has a three-year, $900m (£450m) search and advertising deal with Sky's fellow News Corp operation MySpace.com, splits search revenues with Sky and has an agreement to investigate future forms of web, TV and mobile advertising.

ITV is in the midst of the staged rollout of content and services on the website.

While simulcasts of channels ITV1, ITV2 and ITV3 are already available, a staged rollout of ITV.com's video streaming will see the 30-day catch-up service and programme archive activated for different programme genres on a week-by-week basis.

Soaps such as Coronation Street and Emmerdale were the first to launch, followed by broadband games, drama, lifestyle, sport, entertainment and news.

Both ITV and Google declined to comment.

I notice your debating skills are as good as ever.

I have to agree to a point though, the URLs are rather ugly- although they're much better than the old pageid ones.

The capital letters are just a mess. I suspects thats due to their odd servers. www.itv.com claims to be running IIS 6 on Linux. Impressive.

Anyway - what are we to expect tomorrow?

What's left to add again?

Watch Now
News
Sport
Individual ITV1/2/3/4 websites
TV Listings

are all still to launch (according to the top menu).

Edit: Oh, and user registration and search.

Personally I think they might as well add in 'Citv' bits onto the main site as what's left on the current site is a bit of a mess filled with advertising and a rather redundant 'CITV on ITV1' column.

That column looks ridiculous now.

Tough. I supsect News and/or Sport this week, with the rest phased in before the 31st, when the cursed old site should be removed.

Not forgetting they have the main homepage to reveal yet.

I'm getting a little fed up of how ITV.com is touting The Bill as being involved in this new site: www.itv.com/drama - see the main image. The other day, it said 'Catch up with The Bill' - well I'm sorry, but I don't see ANY video catch ups for The Bill, not on the new ITV.com or the normal The Bill website.

I hope they sort this soon, ITV promised all homegrown content would be available on demand for 30 days after transmission. Well it's not, and I'd quite like to rewatch last Thursday's episode, thanks.

And where is today's section? *grumble moan*



That'll be on July 31st, or whenever they move the site from the preview.itv.com subdomain.