December 2010 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer monthly performance pack
Post categories: iPlayer,ÌýiPlayer Press Pack
| 10:36 UK time, Tuesday, 18 January 2011
The 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer stats pack for December 2010 is now available as a PDF.
Here are some headlines put together by the 91Èȱ¬ FM&T Communications Team.
In total 91Èȱ¬ iPlayer received 145 million requests for TV and radio programmes in December 2010. This was the third month in a row that 91Èȱ¬ 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 requests91Èȱ¬ iPlayer on Virgin Media saw a new record of 23.9 million requests received
Requests for programmes via 91Èȱ¬ 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 respectively...
Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, 91Èȱ¬ Online
Comment number 1.
At 18th Jan 2011, Sam Radford wrote:Not directly related (not sure where to ask this) but it was said last year that before the end of 2010 that 91Èȱ¬ 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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Comment number 2.
At 18th Jan 2011, grahamg2007 wrote:Hi Nick,
Will you be posting these each month?
Graham
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Comment number 3.
At 18th Jan 2011, Nick Reynolds wrote:grahamg2007 - we have been posting these every month for some time. Here's the full list:
/blogs/bbcinternet/bbc_iplayer_press_pack/
Thanks
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Comment number 4.
At 18th Jan 2011, Darren wrote:Lets see some of the iPlayer PS3 bugs sorted then can we?
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Comment number 5.
At 18th Jan 2011, Guv-nor wrote: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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Comment number 6.
At 19th Jan 2011, ChrisSays... wrote:I'm a nit-picker, but proably should read "receiving over 700,000 and 600,000 thousand requests respectively..." and not "receiving over 700,000 and 600,000 thousand requests respectfully..."!
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Comment number 7.
At 19th Jan 2011, Nick Reynolds wrote:Chrissays... you are right. Now corrected. Apologies.
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Comment number 8.
At 19th Jan 2011, Alex wrote:Porting iPlayer to the PS3 was a fantastic move by the 91Èȱ¬. It's a shame it seems to be treated as a second class citizen compared to the others. For example you generally can't drill down through to a second program without it breaking.
Having said that it's still a better experience than the ITV and 4oD players that have recently appeared on the PS3. Also it streams at about twice the bitrate than the new LoveFILM player which I found surprising (and it shows).
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Comment number 9.
At 20th Jan 2011, OfficerDibble wrote:5. At 19:35pm on 18th Jan 2011, Guv-nor wrote:
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 agree, and have flagged this up on previous blogs and asked the same question without an answer. The unusual, near instantaneous jump in the figures around October should ring alarm bells with statisticians and technicians alike. How come so many new requests hit the system after a certain date? Marketing can't account for it.
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Comment number 10.
At 28th Jan 2011, OfficerDibble wrote:Looking at the iPlayer tech issues on the board, it seems there is a known bug "Evil Twin"
/dna/mbiplayer/NF7331803?thread=7887775
If this bug, maybe caused by the widely reported general slowness of the whole interface, results in multiple streams opening then clearly the monthly performance pack data will show multiple "requests". If only 5% of all requests result in evil twin bug then that will account for the instant uplift in requests since the new software was implemented (not withstanding the uplift due to impatient users refreshing when the stream stalls).
This needs investigation to see how many requests are "paired" - ie the same programme to the same user in quick succession.
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Comment number 11.
At 11th Feb 2011, Spiritman wrote:Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I have an idea for the main iPlayer site:
In the 'For You' section, I would like a link that I can click to say "no thanks" to a particular programme, to improve personalised programme suggestions.
Any chance of that? Cheers.
Keep up the good work!
Spiritman.
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