The BBC iPlayer performance pack for March 2013 is now available

Apr 22, 2013 12:52 GMT  ·  By

The BBC has released a PDF containing the performance pack for March 2013 highlighting 272 million BBC iPlayer requests, which is on par with the figures from January 2013.

Of note, this time around there have been more requests on tablet devices than smartphones, which the BBC labels as “mobile devices.” Although tablets are just as mobile as phones are, the broadcast company labels them as full-fledged computers.

Tablets like the iPad had 200,000 requests ahead of mobiles, “driven primarily by TV viewing.”

“Both mobile and tablet usage remained high – making up 30% of overall requests – or 81 million requests in total,” the BBC added.

The average daily requests were 8.1 million, while weekly requests were capped at 60 million in the second week of March.

“The last week in March saw a small dip compared to recent weeks most likely caused by the Easter holiday; and the long weekend affected radio requests more than TV,” the BBC said.