— Five: The broadcaster is tasking Red Bee Media with managing all its Demand Five VOD services, including transcoding, distribution, syndication, live streaming, content management, metadata and delivery to YouTube, MediaWeek reports.
— Spotify priorities: A redesign to its homepage sees the music service flip its priority – where previously it marketed its free, day-pass and premium services in that order, now premium gets top billing, free is downplayed and the day-pass is gone. This captures the increasing emphasis it is placing on paying custom.
— Come Dine With Me: C4 has gone live with the viewer-created dinner-party tool we revealed in October that it would launch. It’s hosted at Channel4.com and uses Facebook Connect. Via NMA.