The BBC has published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2024/25 today, revealing it now reaches 94% of UK adults on average each month across its services.
Digital consumption grew significantly this year, with BBC iPlayer requests up by nearly 10%, making it the UK’s fastest-growing long-form video-on-demand platform.
The BBC said programmes including The Traitors, Race Across the World, Gavin and Stacey: The Finale, the Men’s Euros, the Olympic Games in Paris, the Proms, and award-winning podcasts such as Miss Me? all drove strong audience numbers. Its General Election coverage also attracted high engagement.
Trust in BBC News increased year-on-year, and the BBC News app is now the UK’s most used news app by monthly reach. The BBC’s fact-checking unit, BBC Verify, expanded its operations and is now the most likely service of its kind to be used by UK adults, it says. The BBC’s 6.30pm regional news programmes remain the UK’s most watched news programmes.
BBC Chair Samir Shah said this year showed how important the BBC remains to the country. He commented: “This year has shown that the BBC and the public service values it stands for are more important than ever to our audiences and the UK as a whole.
“As we look towards Charter Review, the Board and I are determined to work on behalf of audiences to secure an independent, universal public service BBC for generations to come.”
Director-General Tim Davie added: “I am proud of the outstanding value we have delivered for audiences this year and the speed at which we are transforming the organisation to meet the challenges of a fast-changing media landscape.”
Go here for the BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25.
