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 [...]

All being well, the next release of Channel4.com will happen next week.
Here’s what’s new in the release:

First batch of Archive 4oD programmes
Addition of a Pop-Out player
Subtitles (where available)
New 4oD landing-page including predictive-text video finder
Player tweaks for smoother playback
Enhanced PIN / access-control functionality
Channel 4 Blogs hub page

We hope you’re going to enjoy the new content and [...]

In a few weeks – around 25th June -  we’ll begin adding programmes from the Channel 4 archive to the 4oD flash-streaming service on Channel4.com.
As we’ll soon be making ‘000s of hours of content available on a free, streamed basis to Mac and Linux as well as Windows PC users via the web site, we’re [...]

When you spend a year re-doing a web site like Channel4.com it is with some trepidation. No matter how much “business modelling” you do, the proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is usage.
All the essential components of the new Channel4.com were in place on April 1st. So we now have a full month’s [...]

Yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day, created by Suw Charman-Anderson as, in her words, “an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology”.
I loved the idea, and immediately pledged to post. Then wondered who to write about out of the women involved with technology who’ve personally inspired me. Esther Dyson? Judy Gibbons? [...]

Over the next few weeks we will be decommmissioning the site at http://www.channel4.com/music/ . Music is an enormously competitive area online and this site, one of masses offering news / reviews / interviews simply isn’t doing very well any more.
We’ll be saving the best bits of content and making them available from music programme pages. [...]

Channel 4 marketing is genuinely excited about the Red Riding Trilogy, which airs in March. The films are  adaptations of David Peace’s incredibly dark quartet of crime novels set across 10 years between 1974 and 1983. The three films thrive on a rich, multi-layered script, amazing production details and a stellar [...]

Celebrity Big Brother 6 is in full swing and this series has an official online presence in more places than ever before. Another exciting addition is that the audience can use the site to shape the narrative of the show in a brand new way.
So here’s a run through of what we’ve got going [...]

With the launch of our new homepage today the first phase of the redesigned channel4.com is now live. The homepage follows hot on the heels of new designs recently introduced for other key sections of the site including Programme pages, TV listings and Search. In the next few weeks we will be launching new pages [...]

Did you know that you can get behind-the-scenes access and chat with other fans of Channel 4 shows on social networking sites such as Bebo and Facebook? Here’s a run-down of some of the C4 ‘presences’ out there in the wild.