BBC iPlayer: 500,000 programmes viewed every day

The BBC press office are not releasing specific viewing figures but they have said that "Life in Cold Blood" is somewhere in the top 15 of programmes viewed since Christmas.

clipped from www.bbc.co.uk BBC iPlayer growth continues as bbc.co.uk records 29% increase Number of programmes downloaded or streamed on demand via BBC iPlayer reaches 17 million, up to 500,000 a day BBC-branded entertainment channels showing clips on Yahoo! with Blinkx and MSN to follow soon There was an average of 20 million UK visitors weekly to bbc.co.uk across January, marking an increase of 29% on the corresponding period in 2007, driven chiefly by BBC iPlayer (accounting for up to 1.3 million unique visitors weekly), news, sport and weather. Programmes which performed particularly well on BBC iPlayer include Ashes To Ashes, coverage of the Six Nations clash between England and Wales and Life In Cold Blood.