BBC’s Olympic Website Stats: Receives Total 29 Million Video Requests, Breaks Its Own Records

Posted on Aug 6 2012 - 5:16am by Editorial Staff

The first week of 2012 London Olympics ended, and the week is not all about of medals but it even seen a record numbers of people accessing the BBC’s Games coverage online as well as on across mobile, tablet, connected TV and Red-Button. A total of 17 million people have watched the 24 Olympic Red Button streams for at least 15 minutes, and the publication have recorded 18 million unique browsers to the Sports Olympics web pages, with a daily peak of 8 million (UK) and 10.4 (Global). A total of 29 million requests for video content across bbc.co.uk/sport, BBC received since the start of the Games, and the Sports site has seen a uplift of +80% in its daily unique browsers.

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