Watching BBC iPlayer On Tablets Grows 15% In A Month
Anyone who has tried it, knows that watching Online TV and tablet PC‘s were made for each other, and that is further confirmed by the latest figures released by the BBC. They showed that that between August and September, viewing of BBC iPlayer content on tablets rose by an amazing 15%.
Tablets love the BBC iPlayer
The catch-up TV service had 153 million requests for TV and radio streaming across all platforms during September in the UK, and the popularity of new technology such as iPads and Android tablets was instrumental in driving the number of requests.
Tablet PC’s requesting content grew from 4 million in August to 4.6 million in September. This figure is still only a small portion of the overall 153 million monthly requests, and tablets accounted for about 3% of the total requests. But the figures still show that tablet TV is growing massively.
The BBC recently revamped their homepage to better cater for mobile devices. Other than tablets, mobile devices including smartphones, account for 6% of requests for programming content.
When it comes to other connected viewing devices, games consoles account for around 5% of iPlayer requests and other connected hardware such as Freesat, Freeview, BT Vision and Blu-ray players had 6%. None of those figures come near the PC though which had over 65% of iPlayer requests for September.
With the growth of tablets from Apple with the ever popular iPad, Android devices and the new Amazon Kindle Fire, expect the figures to keep rising.
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