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Iplayer gets 100 million visitors
THE BBC has released its latest viewing figures for its telly-on-demand over the Internet Iplayer service.
Having seen record user numbers over the winter solstice holidays, the BBC has proudly announced that it had 100 million requests on the service, or roughly 10 for every broadband user in the UK during that time.
The broadcaster said that the end of the year had seen a swell in numbers, particularly on New Years Day when most people were nursing their hangovers.
Shows with large viewing figures included the final appearance of David Tennant as Dr Who at 1.3 million and Terry Wogan's final day as a Radio 2 breakfast radio show presenter.
The last time we mentioned Top Gear, a number of men threw down their Yorkie bars, tucked their shirts in their jeans and strutted about the comments section like it was a BMW forecourt. So it is with not a little trepidation that we have to mention Clarkson again.
Yet Top Gear, a show which is less about cars than it is about what comes out of Jeremy Clarkson's mouth, was again a big winner on Iplayer. In fact, over the Christmas break the Top Gear Bolivia Special was the most popular TV programme, while the slightly less visceral day two of the England versus South Africa test match was the biggest hitter on the radio. Presumably because it was a soothing drone, easy to nap to.
Erik Huggers, director of future media and technology at the BBC said, "Breaking the 100 million barrier is a great way to kick off 2010 and these figures show that by offering simple and varied access to BBC Iplayer people are really finding it easy to catch up with their favourite programmes at a time that suits them."
Although the BBC's Iplayer is available on some twenty different devices, roughly one in eight visitors now come from games consoles, that is, a Nintendo Wii or Sony PS3 console. Huggers added, "I expect more people to start using the service as we continue to make it more widely available and I'm looking forward to some of the new innovations we have coming to the service later on in the year." µ
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After much strutting, I've just managed to pull my jeans high enough to cover the 'builders crack' and start typing...
I thought they were wise to the old proxy trick? I know many other country-specific services detect your proxy and block access, however, I would have thought the Beeb would at least be doing this.
It's not that I want to deny other people outside the UK access, it's that there is only a finite amount of service and over-loading it would considerably degrade our oaid for experience.
BTW: If anyone would like to forward me a nominal-to-very-small fee, I will gladly head over to the Isle of Man, find that huge, self opinionated head of Clarkson, and run him down.
Thank you.
Dave xxx
Alot of those visitors will be using proxy servers from abroad to connect because the BBC make it easy for them. The more people who use it the more they can push for an Internet Licence to replace the TV Licence. Funny really considering the amount of security they made TVCatchUp use!
"these figures show that by offering simple and varied access to BBC Iplayer people are really finding it easy to catch up with their favourite programmes at a time that suits them."
Yup, quite correct, far better than that complete screw up attempt you tried to release first time eh?
How much of our money did that cost by the way?
"We tried to notify the 100,00th viewer but for some reason he didn't notice the graphic. We even made it animated for extra attention grabbing effectiveness!"
The BBC is a tax payers funded corp the iPlayer was put onto the PS3 for 1 reason to the many PSN is free. BBC didn't choose the 360 because Microsoft wanted it to be to GOLD subscribers only and BBC pulled out.
Microsoft then choose SKY instead, I wish they would the classic challenges to Top Gear. Like the Rocket Car, and Car Boats ones the challenge DVD there on is completely a mess its cut up and goes into 1 then 20mins laters goes into another then comes back to the 1 you 1st started watching.
right now the best platform for DVR is the XBOX360
why cant Microsoft and the BBC sort this out ??
john