Vigil, Euro 2020 help BBC iPlayer to record summer

Mystery drama <em>Vigil</em>, Euro 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics helped BBC iPlayer to record third-quarter viewing figures, the corporation has revealed.

From July to September the service recorded a 20% year-on-year increase in usage, with some 1.5 billion streams of programming.

The single most-watched programme on iPlayer was episode one of <em>Vigil</em>, which was requested 6.78m times - a figure that has risen to 7.7m since the end of September.

The final of Euro 2020 between England and Italy had 6.03m streams, with 22.89m total streams for coverage in the period and a mammoth 75.9m streams of video content via iPlayer and BBC Sport across the entire tournament.

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