INSIGHT
“ Funding high-quality original programmes about the UK is something the BBC can do like no other media organisation ”
– Cyrus Saihan , Head of Digital Partnerships , BBC
is available on over 10,000 different types of device in the UK for free , from computers and smartphones to tablets and connected TVs ).
In terms of new innovations , developing and delivering projects to test out emerging technologies at their very early stages has been very satisfying . Working on projects such as mind-control interfaces in 2015 ( two years ahead of global giants such as Facebook ), holographic TV and virtual reality back in 2014 has been very exciting .
Tell me about your plans for iPlayer . How can you build on its huge success to date ? BBC iPlayer has been the number one video-on-demand service in the UK for some time , but we are now looking to make the leap from it being seen as a catch-up service to a mustvisit destination in its own right .
Our goal is to make BBC iPlayer the number one online TV service in the UK and by 2020 we are looking to double the number of people that we reach and quadruple the time that each person spends on BBC iPlayer every week .
10 December 2017