August 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer monthly performance pack
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| 10:30 UK time, Friday, 24 September 2010
It's that time again. Here's the August 2010 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer Press Pack. And these are the highlights from the 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer press team:
- In total the 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer received 119 million requests for programmes across all platforms in August 2010, including both online platforms and devices and 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer on Virgin Media TV. Requests are much higher than August 2009 with 70 million requests for TV programmes and 28 million for radio programmes, whilst requests on Virgin Media were up to 21 million.
- 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer’s most requested title in August was Top Gear, with episode 6 attracting over 1 million requests.Ìý Sherlock and documentary Madness In The Fast Lane also delivered strongly, as did the 91Èȱ¬ Three Adult Season.Ìý For radio, Fry’s English Delight attracted the most requests, followed by football and Test Match Special.
- Live TV viewing via the 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer dropped back again this month to the level seen before the start of the World Cup.
Download the August 2010 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer Press Pack .
Paul Murphy is the Editor of the 91Èȱ¬ Internet blog.
Comment number 1.
At 24th Sep 2010, 3Dots wrote:I would have thought tyhe most requested think on the iPlayer was to revert back to the old version...
I can safely say that my iPlayer usage has dropped by about 800% since the iPlayer beta came on-line fully.
Do i feel 'disenfrainchised'? - Yes...wouldn't normally use management speak but it might get understood by the important people even if they ignore what I'm saying.
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Comment number 2.
At 24th Sep 2010, muylee wrote:Nobody is questioning the ACTUAL PROGRAMMES. Good programmes are good programmes and of course people will continue to request watching them, thereby showing good viewing figures whether on the channels, online viewing or through iPlayer catch-up.
What is being questioned, however, is the performance of the new iPlayer itself and that remains an extremely poor shadow of its former self.
The 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer team should be able to distinguish between the success of programme-making over the success of iPlayer.
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Comment number 3.
At 25th Sep 2010, 3Dots wrote:Indeed, I now only use iPlayer when I have to these rather than it being something I used as a mode of entertainment and discovering things I never knew about...now I use it only for things I have missed.
I will be using it once this week to catch-up on QI XL from last week as since I now do not use iPlayer which would have flagged up such a viewed programme and I only ever watch 91Èȱ¬ at the time I want to watch specific programmes I only found out it was on by accident this morning.
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Comment number 4.
At 8th Oct 2010, Squirrel wrote:Usage statistics for iPlayer over recent months are completely meaningless!
The constant updates and re-installations of iPlayer Desktop. The deleting of programmes in large numbers causing re-downloading two, three, four, five times.
It is now so difficult to keep track of which programmes are which, I often repeat "request" a programme in error.
Also... No matter how many times iPlayer suggests I should, I am not watching Eastenders!
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