The number of requests to the BBC iPlayer fell in April, a fact the BBC is attributing to the Easter holidays and lighter evenings at the start of British Summer Time.
The 257 million figure is the lowest number of requests since December 2012.
Average daily requests remained high with an average of 7.9 million daily requests. Weekly requests were also strong, peaking at 57 million in the second and third weeks of the month.
Requests from tablets continued to outnumber requests from mobiles (400,000 more than mobiles), and both mobile and tablet usage remained high – making up 30 per cent of overall requests – or 75 million requests in total.
