BBC iPlayer requests by device 2014-2016 Statistic

This statistic represents BBC iPlayer requests across all platforms in the United Kingdom (UK) from January 2014 to March 2016, by device. In January 2015, 99 million requests were made via computer in the United Kingdom. There were 83 million requests for TV and radio content made via tablet PCs.

Number of BBC iPlayer requests monthly in the United Kingdom (UK) from January 2014 to March 2016, by device (in million requests)

Characteristic	Computers	Tablets	Mobile devices	TV platform operators**	Unknown****	Games consoles***	Internet TV / connected devices*
January 14	110	71	56	39	18	12	8
February 14	105	69	54	36	17	11	8
March 14	105	77	59	39	20	11	8
April 14	82	68	51	30	19	9	7
May 14	90	65	49	34	20	9	7
June 14	86	58	50	31	22	8	6
July 14	77	51	43	25	22	6	6
August 14	72	57	45	32	23	8	7
September 14	71	61	49	36	25	10	7
October 14	97	73	62	42	28	11	8
November 14	102	75	68	46	29	11	6
December 14	97	80	76	37	30	10	5
January 15	100	84	81	40	31	10	5
February 15	92	79	78	30	21	9	6
March 15	94	67	70	24	14	5	6
April 15	84	62	65	25	20	8	10
May 15	82	63	66	34	16	8	11
June 15	73	56	60	29	15	7	11
July 15	73	61	65	28	12	7	12
August 15	76	62	67	27	19	10	18
September 15	87	61	68	34	30	16	38
October 15	92	66	74	34	18	9	20
November 15	95	64	73	43	7	43	20
December 15	88	65	74	45	8	45	21
January 16	90	67	77	45	8	45	21
February 16	85	63	70	45	9	45	21
March 16	87	63	69	50	10	50	23

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Release date

April 2016

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

January 2014 to March 2016

Supplementary notes

* Include Freeview and Freesat smart TVs, set-top-boxes and devices like Roku and blu-ray DVD players.
** Include Virgin Media, Sky, YouView and BT Vision.
*** Comprise Sony PS3, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft XBox 360.
**** Mostly due to online radio services such as the TuneIn radio app, which we are currently unable to classify accurately by device.

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.

Data previous to October 2014 published in earlier versions of the report.

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