During the whole festive period the iPlayer app was downloaded nearly one million times – with almost 300,000 downloads on Christmas Day alone – and by the end of 2012 the iPlayer app had been downloaded nearly 13 million times.
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With a final year-end tally of £1.033bn, digital sales of music, video and games grew by 11.4% over 2011 to account for a quarter of the combined entertainment market.
On Christmas Day, activations soared to more than 17.4 million, a 332% increase over the December baseline. By comparison, Christmas Day 2011 held the previous single-day record, having reached 6.8 million device activations.
