BBC iPlayer attracts record viewers in first six months of 2022

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BBC iPlayer has registered its best first six months of the year in terms of number of streams.

Programmes were streamed 140 million more times than the same period last year, and streamed more than 1.6 billion times between April and June, marking its “best ever” second quarter.

A combination of drama and live events drove the record viewing numbers, including the final series of Peaky Blinders, The Split and Killing Eve, Glastonbury Festival, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the Eurovision Song Contest.

The final episode of Peaky Blinders series 6 starring Cillian Murphy (pictured, main image) had more than four million streams, making it the highest-performing episode between April and June 2022, while Glastonbury Festival (pictured, main image) was the second quarter’s best-performing boxset, netting 36 million streams by the end of June and 39.4 million to date.

Platinum Party at the Palace was streamed 3.1 million times on iPlayer, the FA Cup Final recorded 2.7 million streams and the Eurovision Song Contest had 2.4 million streams.