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BBC Looking At Data To Commission New Shows Netflix Style
- Guardian, Monday, May 9, 2016 6:29 AM
The BBC is following Netflix in using online viewing data to help it decide which programmes to make. It is also experimenting with using social media such as Twitter and Facebook to help it make commissioning decisions. The experiments are part of the corporation’s myBBC project announced by director general Tony Hall last year to “reinvent public service broadcasting through data”.
