Channel 4 is searching for filmmakers who can create an ident with a difference – in 3D. To celebrate Channel 4’s upcoming ‘3D week’ filmmakers are being asked to upload 3D clips that feature the number four to a dedicated YouTube channel. The most creative entries could end up being broadcast on Channel 4 to [...]

A couple of weeks ago 4oD began adding thousands of programmes from the C4’s archive onto channel4.com. This filled our hearts with joy, and your feedback – and the traffic you’re generating – suggests you’re also pretty happy with it too.
However, adding thousands of programmes to 4oD also made us realise we’d created a nice, [...]

Update:
This competition is closed. The lucky winners of the commercial spot products were Vivienne White, Marcia Soares, Martin Taylor, Val Hunt and Lorraine Foster.

You may have noticed a new campaign to promote the 4oD service on channel4.com, which now includes every programme from our archive, as well as the 30-day catch up window that was [...]

Recently, Channel 4 commissioned some research from OTX into the relationships that kids aged 12-24 have with technology. The report is called A Beta Life, and I thought I’d share a few of the salient points and how they relate to the future of television on and offline.
Some top-line stats may surprise you about the [...]

Over the past week, we’ve received a few emails and comments from customers of some ISPs explaining that their router  seemed to ‘cut out’ after a certain period of time when playing content on the new 4oD Catch Up service
Our investigation into this suggests that updating to the most current version of the Flash player [...]

Well over a million people have watched 4oD Catch-up in the last few days, so we must be doing something right. However things haven’t been totally smooth for some users. Here is a quick update on what’s been going on behind the scenes in the last week.
Issues and fixes
We know that some of you have [...]

The all-new 4oD Catch-Up area was just one element to a large release of functionality that went live this morning. Here’s a summary of some of the other changes that have been rolled out.
Talk about our programmes
You can now have your say about our programmes. Simply use the comment form displayed on all feature pages [...]

An all-new Catch Up experience has been woven into the new Programmes area on channel4.com. This post will run down the major enhancements to the service, and give you a few pointers on how to discover the best of Channel 4 content online.
One place for all Catch-Up programmes
The 4oD Catch-Up page lists all the available [...]

A quick post just to detail a few changes to the new site recently.
We’ve added tons more support for uploading and displaying galleries of images on our programmes pages, meaning the picture editors are no longer limited to displaying images on an episode basis – they can now upload images in whatever organisation they choose, [...]

Categories (sometimes labelled genres on other broadcaster sites) already power the related shows box that gets displayed on the right-hand sidebar of every programme page, but until now, you couldn’t get all of our comedy programmes, say, listed in one place.
We’ve just released our Programmes by Category pages into the wild. An example is the [...]