ITV on Monday accused the Office of Fair Trading of handing the UK’s nascent online video market to Apple and Google as the body referred its proposed video-on-demand joint venture with BBC Worldwide and Channel 4 to the Competition Commission.

The referral of Kangaroo will delay a service that would have brought together archive programming from all three broadcasters into a single website while the Competition Commission undergoes a 24-week review. Kangaroo had intended to launch in the autumn.