A new record – BBC – The Editors

    Steve Herrmann:

    "- We had 11.4m individual users to the News website on Friday – approximately – so that breaks our previous record of 9.2m (that was on 5 November 2008 for the Obama election victory)
    - There were about 30m page views for the constituency results pages
    - Over 100m page views in total
    - About 6.5m page views to the election live page"

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BBC News online coverage of prime-ministerial debate – BBC The Editors

    Steve Herrmann:

    Online, it looks from our provisional figures as though we had around 3.2m UK unique users visiting the BBC News website yesterday and just under 3m internationally. The live coverage page on the build-up and the debate itself received around 850,000 UK pageviews and the live stream had over 350,000 plays – more than either of the previous two debates.

    For the first time, we ran the live stream directly on the BBC News Facebook page, from where it could be shared, and it was also on their Democracy UK page.

    We made it available to other sites too – including several UK newspaper sites, Yahoo, Fox News and the New York Times. Following the debate there's an on-demand version also available to embed. On our own site, we're currently linking on the front page to a searchable video and transcript of the debate.

    Alongside the video last night, we provided rapid updates via Twitter and our live page from BBC correspondents because we see them as a valuable extra element.

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#ge2010: BBC World Service plans cross-platform and language election coverage

    "The British general election is of huge interest to audiences around the world who want to discuss and debate the impact the UK votes may have on their lives," said Peter Horrocks, director, BBC Global News, in a release.

    "The BBC's international multimedia services have gathered the thoughts, hopes and fears of other countries, while reflecting the excitement of this race to a global audience."

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BBC iPlayer press pack March 2010 – BBC Internet Blog

    The March 2010 BBC iPlayer press pack is published, headlines include:

    "Radio requests were highest on record, reaching 33 million requests and TV programmes requests were 84 million

    In total there were 118 million requests across all platforms (both online platforms and devices and BBC iPlayer on Virgin Media TV combined)."

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UK’s leading actors urge voters to protect licence fee and keep BBC safe – The Observer

    "The protest letter from performers, published in the Observer today, urges voters to think about the consequences "for this cherished part of our national life". It concludes: "It is right that there is a national debate about the future of the BBC. But attacking the BBC to serve the interests of its commercial rivals would be short-sighted and threatens to devalue not just the BBC itself, but our culture as a whole.""

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