Meer mobiele- dan desktopkijkers voor BBC iPlayer

Mobile en tablet was goed voor 41% van de 176 miljoen BBC TV 'requests'. 33% gebruikte een pc. Overige was oa connected TV's en gameconsoles.

De iPlayer is de Engelse Uitzending Gemist-variant van de BBC.

BBC iPlayer: requests for programmes by device type (click for larger image). Photograph: BBC

The figures published on Thursday also highlight the rapid rise of the TV-friendly size of the iPad over other mobile devices.

Tablets accounted for 43 million of the 70m requests to portable devices, well ahead of mobiles on 27m despite the ubiquity of smartphones.

Requests to view TV shows on tablet devices have grown 250% in a year – from almost level pegging with mobiles on 17m last September to 43m last month – while mobile requests have climbed 29%.

The only platform on which the iPlayer is available to see a decline in viewing requests is computers, down from 70m to 58m in a year, a 17% decline.

The level of iPlayer requests via TV sets offering on-demand viewing – via services such as BSkyB, YouView, Virgin Media and BT – have stayed pretty stable year on year at 29m.

The BBC said that there has been a total of 20m downloads of the BBC iPlayer mobile app for Apple and Android devices.

"Twenty million downloads of the BBC iPlayer mobile app marks a golden age of public service television," said the head of TV content for BBC iPlayer, Victoria Jaye. "It cements iPlayer's role as BBC television's fifth channel, enabling audiences to fit their enjoyment of the full range of BBC programmes around their busy lives."

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