BBC iPlayer usage by service UK 2013-2016

This statistic displays the number of BBC iPlayer requests made monhtly across all platforms (TV and radio) in the United Kingdom from July 2013 to January 2016, by service. In January 2016, there were 250 million requests for TV programs, while in May 2015, there were 226 million requests for television programs.

Number of BBC iPlayer requests monthly across all platforms in the United Kingdom (UK) from July 2013 to January 2016, by service (in million requests)

Characteristic	Radio programs	TV programs
Jan 16*	65	250
Dec 15*	56	253
Nov 15*	59	252
Oct 15*	58	255
Sept 15*	58	276
Aug 15*	53	226
Jul 15*	55	203
Jun 15*	51	200
May 15*	54	226
Apr 15*	53	222
Mar 15*	57	225
Feb 15*	57	259
Jan 15	79	273
Dec 14	78	259
Nov 14	80	257
Oct 14	80	240
Sep 14	75	186
Aug 14	64	182
Jul 14	66	171
Jun 14	70	194
May 14	71	205
Apr 14	64	205
Mar 14	72	250
Feb 14	67	235
Jan 14	74	242
Dec 13	69	202
Nov 13	68	198
Oct 13	63	200
Sep 13	69	176
Aug 13	74	159
Jul 13	77	164

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Release date

March 2016

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

July 2013 to January 2016

Supplementary notes

* The source provides the following information: "Radio data missing. (...) February 2015 – changes were made to radio streaming services which has resulted in gaps in our reporting for some streams. Find out more on the "

The source provides the following information:
- Unless specified otherwise, figures include requests for both on-demand catch-up (streams and downloads), or views of live simulcasts. We cannot report download playback due to data privacy restrictions.
- All data is for the UK only and excludes listening outside the UK.
- This data includes requests via BBC iPlayer on any BBC website - whether on a programme, channel or station page, via the pop-out console, or on the BBC iPlayer website itself.
- This report does not include requests for web-only content (such as online news or sport coverage) - only requests for full-length programmes which have been transmitted on a TV channel or radio station.
- BBC iPlayer stats measurement was under-representing radio data up to mid-January 2013, when a problem was corrected.

Additional survey methodology can be found on page 9 of the report.

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