As Brits prepare to give and receive the latest tablets and smartphones this Christmas, the BBC has announced that its top ten apps have been downloaded over 70 million times since launching four years ago.
BBC iPlayer leads the pack with more than 30m downloads, followed by BBC News with 15m downloads and BBC Weather with 9.5m.
iPlayer Radio is the fourth most popular app with 6.8m downloads, followed by BBC’s Sport app with 5.3m downloads.
“Christmas 2014 is set to be another bumper time for our apps, as people unwrap their shiny new mobiles and tablets and look for the best apps to download,” said Ralph Rivera, director BBC Future Media.
“With over 70 million downloads of our apps in the UK over the last four years, we know we’re getting it right.”
Last Christmas, there were almost a million downloads of the BBC iPlayer app over the festive period (Saturday 21 December to New Year’s Day).
Recent Ofcom research shows that over 8 in 10 of adults now go online using any type of device in any location. 44 per cent of households also now have access to a tablet (up by a factor of four over the past two years).
Since its first app launched in 2010, the top 10 most popular BBC apps in the UK are:
1. BBC iPlayer – 30 million downloads
2. BBC News – 15 million downloads
3. BBC Weather – 9.5 million downloads
4. BBC iPlayer Radio – 6.8 million downloads
5. BBC Sport – 5.3 million downloads
6. CBeebies Playtime – 3.4 million downloads
7. The Voice UK – 825,000 downloads
8. CBeebies Storytime – 576,000 downloads
9. CBBC Ludus – 180,000 downloads
10. CBBC Gory Games Play-along – 156,000 downloads
