December 2010 BBC iPlayer monthly performance pack
Post categories: BBC iPlayer Press Pack, iplayer
| 10:36 UK time, Tuesday, 18 January 2011
The BBC iPlayer stats pack for December 2010 is now available as a PDF.
Here are some headlines put together by the BBC FM&T; Communications Team.
In total BBC iPlayer received 145 million requests for TV and radio programmes in December 2010. This was the third month in a row that BBC iPlayer broke its total number of requests record, and is a year-on-year increase of 27%. Three more records were smashed in December:
Total number of requests for TV programmes were at an all time high 89.7 million requestsBBC iPlayer on Virgin Media saw a new record of 23.9 million requests received
Requests for programmes via BBC iPlayer on Sony's Playstation 3 reached 7 million, which is an increase of 31% month-on-month...
Rounding out the top ten most popular programmes were Matt Lucas and David Walliams's new airport based comedy "Come Fly With Me" charting at number 5, with over 780 thousand requests for episode one and the traditional Christmas Day episodes of Doctor Who and EastEnders, receiving over 700,000 and 600,000 thousand requests respectfully...
Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, BBC Online
© MMXI
Not directly related (not sure where to ask this) but it was said last year that before the end of 2010 that BBC video content on the news and sports sites would be viewable on the iPad/iPhone etc. I've not heard any more abou this. Is it still happening? When can it be expected?
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Hi Nick,
Will you be posting these each month?
Graham
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grahamg2007 - we have been posting these every month for some time. Here's the full list:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/bbc_iplayer_press_pack/
Thanks
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Lets see some of the iPlayer PS3 bugs sorted then can we?
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Since the figures are for "requests" do they also include the repeat attempts to stream programmes that constantly insist that the user "try again later" which dogs some programmes.
I am fairly sure I have seen programmes riding high in the Most Popular list when at the same time there are numerous users on the message board reporting that they keep trying again but still the programme fails to play.
While I would not expect to see them are there statistics kept on the number of programmes that fail to work in all respects on the iPlayer? Also if such figures are based on formal complaints is there a prospect of the reporting form being more user friendly?
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