91Èȱ¬ iPlayer second birthday stats
Post categories: iPlayer
| 10:29 UK time, Wednesday, 23 December 2009
There's a press release on the 91Èȱ¬ Press Office website that has some numbers for iPlayer over the last year that you might be interested in. Some of the release's headline statements include:
- 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer celebrates second birthday with record numbers reaching 88.2 million requests
- Top Gear most watched programme of the year on 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer
- Figures reveal popularity of 91Èȱ¬ shows by device
- New data suggests that people take 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer to bed
You can also see the use of iPlayer on mobile by time of day which is where, I imagine, the last statement comes from.
- Read the 91Èȱ¬ press release: 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer celebrates second birthday with record breaking figures
- Read TechRadar UK's
- Read on guardian.co.uk
Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog.
Comment number 1.
At 23rd Dec 2009, Steve wrote:From the press release: "In an interesting insight into how people watch 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer, new figures also reveal how people love to watch 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer on their mobile phones with big peaks in traffic post 9.00pm, and again on Saturday and Sunday morning, suggesting that the nation is snuggling up with their favourite 91Èȱ¬ programmes from the warmth and comfort of their own bed."
I'm curious - these times match *precisely* the periods where internet providers (incl. mine) tend not to throttle traffic. That led me to think something - about how many of these "mobile" users are actually using devices like the iPhone/iPod Touch to access these files through a local wi-fi network.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 1)
Comment number 2.
At 23rd Dec 2009, Simon Davenport wrote:And how many of those mobile downloads are by children in bed?
Complain about this comment (Comment number 2)
Comment number 3.
At 27th Dec 2009, Barbazenzero wrote:Rether than constantly changing things without testing them - putting broken links all over the 91Èȱ¬ site, BTW - why not concentrate on making existing features more widely available?
Allowing downloads of radio programmes would be trivial to implement and would reduce the pressure on whoever has to clean up and produce podcasts manually when your automated routines fail, as they do so often.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 3)
Comment number 4.
At 28th Dec 2009, Moe Nawaz wrote:I have been downloading most of my ipods on to my pc and if need move it to my mobile phone for watching on train or other times that I am not at home.
My self I find it to be a good service and look forward to more.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 4)
Comment number 5.
At 28th Dec 2009, gottago wrote:Do you have any figures on the amount of programmes that are uploaded on iPlayer but are watched by zero people? What's the most high profile upload to watched by so few?
Complain about this comment (Comment number 5)
Comment number 6.
At 3rd Jan 2009, safa wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 6)
Comment number 7.
At 7th Jan 2010, flightsim wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 7)
Comment number 8.
At 10th Mar 2010, Will wrote:What a great anniversary of a top product offering from the 91Èȱ¬. I have to say . Top Gear most watched programme of the year on 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer comes up really well on it.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 8)
Comment number 9.
At 27th Mar 2010, U14390976 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 9)
Comment number 10.
At 12th May 2010, U14460911 wrote:All this user's posts have been removed.Why?
Complain about this comment (Comment number 10)
Comment number 11.
At 30th Jul 2010, James Galloway wrote:It's only the iplayers second ? I thaught it had been around a lot longer. I am one of these people who take iplayer to bed. I have sky tv set up in my front room and we watch this all night until we fancy heading up to bed. We have a laptop which floats between downstairs and our bedroom. The only reason we started taking it upstairs was because my partner watches programs on iplayer till we drop off. We find the connection a bit iffy sometimes but we know this can be a number of things.
Where is it going in the future?
Complain about this comment (Comment number 11)
Comment number 12.
At 10th Aug 2010, johnsamuels wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
Complain about this comment (Comment number 12)