The BBC has smashed its own record for Wimbledon streaming views, with 53.8m total streams for its coverage of the 2022 event across BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport online.
This represents almost a 50 per cent increase on the 30.5m streams for the 2021 event, and is in addition to the 25.5m viewers who watched the event on BBC TV.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most-watched match was Sunday’s men’s final between Novak Djokovic and Nick Kyrgios, which was streamed 2.6m times and achieved a peak TV audience of 7.5m. The number of hours consumed by TV viewers was also the highest since Andy Murray rallied his way to the men’s title in 2016, while the final managed an impressive 43 per cent share of TV audiences.
Across the whole Championships 25.5m people have watched Wimbledon 2022 on BBC TV.
BBC director of sport, Barbara Slater, said: “We are enormously proud to bring extensive coverage of Wimbledon to our audiences, who this year have devoured every moment across all our platforms with these record breaking figures. It’s been another electrifying championship and we are delighted that we can offer audiences different ways to follow the action and to meet the ever increasing appetite for on demand viewing.”
