91Èȱ¬ iPlayer stats for February 2010
Post categories: iPlayer Press Pack
| 07:40 UK time, Thursday, 18 March 2010
Ed's note: The 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer stats for February are in and are available to download as a PDF: 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer publicity pack February 2010. Here are the highlights from the press office (PM):
"February 2010 was another record breaking month for 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer as we had the highest number of TV programme requests we've seen, an increase 81% year on year from Feb 2009. We also saw daily users and daily requests hit new heights with 1.4million and 3.5 million respectively. EastEnders Live proved to be the most popular TV show this month, with 1.1 million requests, and the birthday edition of The Chris Moyles Show was the most popular radio programme.We've seen 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer continue to grow on the Nintendo Wii, increasing by another point - but the really interesting news is that for the first time we're releasing new data about 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer on Virgin Media, and some 'time spent' data. 64 minutes was the average amount of time people used 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer per week in February to watch TV programmes, and 163 minutes was the weekly average for radio.
Headlines and the pack are both below:
- Total requests for Feb 2010 was 116.4 million, including a record-breaking 68.7 million requests for TV programmes.
- February 2010 saw an average of 1.4 million users per day.
- A record 3.5m requests per day on average, with new benchmarks set for both TV (2.5m average) and radio (1.1m average).
- 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer on Nintendo Wii continues to perform well, increasing by another 1 point, to become 4% ofÌý total requests for 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer.
- 64 minutes is the average amount of time per user per week watching TV programmes.
- EastEnders Live and the birthday edition of The Chris Moyles Show were the most popular TV and radio programmes on 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer in February.
- Nintendo Wii reached over 1 million installs of the 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer on Wii channel."
Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog.
Comment number 1.
At 18th Mar 2010, Briantist wrote:It is very interesting that the number of radio-only or radio-and-TV users is stable over time, but the number of TV watching users fluctuates.
Is this because the quality of radio output is more stable over time, or does it say something about radio listening?
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Comment number 2.
At 18th Mar 2010, Keith wrote:Are there any plans to include radio shows to the 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer on Virgin Media? At times it would be nice to be able to catch up with shows such as the Now Show without having to go to the PC.
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Comment number 3.
At 18th Mar 2010, Andrew Tegala wrote:Any information on how the change to the SWF verication in mid February has made a change to the stats? Surely there should be a trend in shows streamed before and after the 'security-plug' was fixed (or broken - depending on your point of view).
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Comment number 4.
At 25th Mar 2010, Tiggs wrote:@3
The silence speaks volumes, to me.
Which actually work against them, as logically I can think of several reason why, at this stage, any such findings wouldn't mean anything.
(For one, they'd show people getting caught out but not whether the stats went up over time if peopel go back to using the "Vanilla" iPlayer service)
Even if, as happens, any public answer was interpreted as "spin". it would still speak volume as wanting to make a comment on it.
Silence just says, rightly or wrongly, "we don't want to talk about it", which just gets people's backs up and makes people immediately assume the worst.
Even "we need longer term stats to comment" would come across better, in my opinion.
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Comment number 5.
At 25th Mar 2010, TV Licence fee payer against 91Èȱ¬ censorship wrote:#4. At 09:29am on 25 Mar 2010, Tiggs wrote:
"@3
The silence speaks volumes, to me."
Sorry, I didn't realise that you were deaf Tiggs...
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At 24th Feb 2011, huntingtonpaper wrote:Sorry for the house rules violation. I'm not sure what house rules i did violated though.
Anyway This state is impressive though "Total requests for Feb 2010 was 116.4 million, including a record-breaking 68.7 million requests for TV programmes."
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