{"id":50711,"date":"2009-11-27T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/The-iPlayer-Online-Video-Service-Proves-a-Great-Success-for-the-BBC-128270.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-27T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:31:02","slug":"the-iplayer-online-video-service-proves-a-great-success-for-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/50711","title":{"rendered":"The iPlayer Online Video Service Proves a Great Success for the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a great need for TV content online. The sheer amount of illegal ways of getting to it is evidence enough, but in recent years, companies are starting to realize that rather than just spend millions on trying to prevent piracy it would be much easier and more profitable to meet the needs of the consumer. In the US, Hulu has been a huge success and is now the second biggest video in the country. In the UK, there’s the BBC’s iPlayer which has seen, arguably, the same level of success though there are some major differences between the two services. <\/p>\n

UK business news site, CXO met with BBC’s CTO John Linwood, a former Yahoo exec, to get some details on the project and has also provided some interesting stats wrapped up in a very stylish and overwhelmingly pink chart graph. The chart is full of big numbers like 12.5 gigabytes of data transferred every second adding up to seven petabytes every month. In total over 400 hours of content are encoded every week either from taped shows or live events. <\/p>\n

But, there are also some relevant stats in there as well. For example, the player served 70 million streams in October, 53.2 million of which were for TV programming. Radio is very popular in the UK but the big number of radio programming streams, 26.1 million, comes from the fact that usi… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a great need for TV content online. The sheer amount of illegal ways of getting to it is evidence enough, but in recent years, companies are starting to realize that rather than just spend millions on trying to prevent piracy it would be much easier and more profitable to meet the needs of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}