The BBC iPlayer stats have just been announced for February, and they’re nothing short of sensational. As well as a major milestone passed on consoles, the figure reveal another phenomenal fact too: the BBC is serving up TV shows to visitors at a rate of almost 30 new requests a second, with more than a million people playing catch up each and every single day.
According to the BBC’s new figures, out today, BBC iPlayer use is up 81 percent on February 2009, with 116.4million requests in total from 1.4m people per day, and 68.7m for TV programmes overall. Auntie breaks it own even further, revealing that 2.5m TV show requests are now made on BBC iPlayer every day, which means that people are whacking that play button 28.9 times per second.
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BBC iPlayer use away from desktops and laptops has also grown, with Nintendo Wii BBC iPlayer views now making up four percent of all calls. Even more impressively, the BBC iPlayer Wii Channel has now been installed on more than one million consoles across the country.
Wondering what the most watched show in all of this was? That’d be EastEnders Live. Impressive stuff, Beeb, but can we please have BBC iPlayer on Xbox 360 now too?
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