British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has published its annual report. For 2012, its centenary year, it draws attention to the creation of a new website to bring together the main BBFC homepage, the BBFC website for parents (PBBFC) and the BBFC education website for students (SBBFC). The new BBFC website allows users to watch trailers for new films classified U-15 and sign up to receive regular BBFC newsletters.

Among the most salient features of the report is the information that the number of online-only classifications rose by 40%.  The number of companies using the BBFC’s Watch & Rate service for online-only content more than doubled, with eleven new platforms licensed to use BBFC ratings online, including Netflix, Sony PlayStation, Microsoft Xbox and Sainsbury’s, BA and Virgin Atlantic.

To download the report, click here.

About the BBFC
The BBFC is an independent, private, not for profit company which classifies films, videos, DVDs and certain video games, advertisements and trailers.  The BBFC operates transparent, well-understood and trusted co-regulatory and self regulatory classification regimes based on years of expertise and published Guidelines which reflect public opinion and the risk of harm; and is accountable to Parliament.

www.bbfc.co.uk/