BBC iPlayer growth spurt continues unabated with 234m monthly requests
BBC iPlayer, the digital catch-up service, has posted another set of stellar statistics with the BBC revealing that 234 million requests were made in August, a 19 per cent upturn on the same period last year.
This breaks down to an average of 7 million daily requests whilst weekly requests held steady at 49 million thanks to hit shows such as Top Gear generating over 3 million requests per episode.
Other shows to perform well online include BBC Three comedy Bad Education, which generated over 1.5m requests before it aired on BBC Three.
Mobile and tablet requests made up just shy of a third of this total with 32 per cent of requests stemming from mobile sources.
In a statement the BBC said: “The profile of BBC iPlayer users has evened out over time in terms of male/female ratio, but remains strongly under-55 in terms of age, which is younger than the typical TV viewer or radio listener’s profile (although more in line with home broadband users).
“BBC iPlayer is used for TV at roughly the same time of day as linear TV viewing, although there is proportionally more daytime and late-peak use. For radio, BBC iPlayer is used far more.”