iPlayer ’09: With 729 Million Requests Served, It’s A Monster
The BBC has released a new bundle of iPlayer stats showing just how popular the catch-up service was in 2009…
- A record 88.2 million requests in November
- Added to the 641 million requests served over January to October, that’s a total 729.2 million
- Most popular show: Top Gear series 13, episode 1 (1.67 million streams)
- Least popular: An October episode of Click, with 35,728
- Computers contribute 86 percent of iPlayer usage, despite being available on some 23 platforms (Project Canvas could change this)
- But usage mimics TV, most coming at 9pm
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729 Million Requests and rising the BBC iPlayer is proving a success, no doubt this maybe an example of Digital Britain having a flagship digital media piece of technology worth talking about.