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Websitebbc.co.uk
Blogbbc.co.uk/blogs
Employees25,000

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London, GBR
Broadcasting House
London, W1A 1AA, GBR

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Group Controller for Future Media and Technology
Project Lead, backstage.bbc.co.uk
Software Engineer, BBC News Website
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P2P-Next 2/08

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BBC

The BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. Its purpose is to enrich people’s lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain. It is a public service broadcaster, established by a Royal Charter and funded by the licence fee that is paid by UK households.

The BBC has a commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, which operates a range of businesses including selling advertising across BBC websites to viewers outside the UK. Its profits are returned to the BBC for investment in new programming and services.

The website, bbc.co.uk, has an annual budget of £153m. The Graf Report into the BBC’s online activities in 2005 laid out a 25% external-spend quota.

Milestones

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    BBC invested in P2P-Next. (2/1/08)
    Posted 2/20/08 at 3:52pm
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    BBC added Richard Titus as Controller Future Media, Audio & Music and Mobile.
    Posted 11/28/08 at 12:19pm
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    BBC added Richard Titus as Acting Head of User Experience & Design.
    Posted 3/20/09 at 1:32am
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    BBC added Angel Gambino as Controller, Business Development & Emerging Platforms.
    Posted 2/27/09 at 3:57am
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    BBC added Mark Thompson as Director General.
    Posted 9/17/09 at 4:51pm
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    BBC added Ian Forrester as Senior Backstage Producer.
    Posted 11/10/08 at 10:30am
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    BBC added Ben Metcalfe as Software Engineer, BBC News Website.
    Posted 8/31/08 at 10:29pm
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    BBC added Ben Metcalfe as Project Lead, backstage.bbc.co.uk.
    Posted 6/23/08 at 4:16am
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    BBC added Erik Huggers as Group Controller for Future Media and Technology.
    Posted 6/16/08 at 7:58pm
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    BBC added Matt Biddulph as Software Engineer.
    Posted 10/21/09 at 12:30pm

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SoundIndex

Websitebbc.co.uk/soundindex
Launch Date2008

SoundIndex is an index created by the BBC that ranks the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet. Every six hours SoundIndex crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web. The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public.

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Above: The SoundIndex Top 1000.
Uploaded: 5/20/08

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