Drama series including Peaky Blinders, The Split, Killing Eve and Sherwood, and live events including Glastonbury, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, and the Eurovision Song Contest helped deliver record numbers of viewers to BBC iPlayer in the second quarter of the year, according to the pubcaster.
Programmes were streamed over 1.6 billion times between April and June, making it iPlayer’s best second quarter, the broadcaster said.
The first half of 2022 was also iPlayer’s best first six months of the year, with programmes streamed 140 million times more than the same period last year
The Glastonbury music festival saw 36 million streams up to the end of June, and 39.4 million to date, reaching a total of 20.6 million people across both the TV broadcast of the event and iPlayer
The Queen’s Jubilee Platinum Party at the Palace was streamed 3.1 million times on iPlayer, while…
