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BBC iPlayer Streaming Use Surging During UK’s COVID-19 Lockdown

The U.K.’s COVID-19 lockdown is sending viewers flocking to BBC iPlayer streaming in “record numbers,” said the broadcaster Tuesday. Sunday was the biggest day in the history of the service with 22.1 million streaming “requests,” it said. BBC recorded 927…

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million requests since the lockdown started March 23, a 67% increase from the same seven-week period in 2019. April was BBC iPlayer’s biggest-ever month with 564 million requests. Q1 had a record-high 1.4 billion requests, up 34% from the 2019 quarter.