Since we published the iPlayer Usage Effect blog we’ve been doing a bit more analysis of the usage and reading up on what other people are writing.

As before we’ll have a couple of headlines.

• iPlayer usage is continuing to grow but at a slightly lower rate, up between 10% and 25% per hour comparing last week with the same week in January.

• iPlayer streaming outnumbers downloads by 8 to 1.

• iPlayer usage now accounts for approximately 5% of our network capacity. More…

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Amazon’s fourth quarter earnings report has revealed that Amazon Web Services, the platform that provides cheap online storage and computing power to smaller web companies, has overtaken Amazon.com in terms of bandwidth use:

Adoption of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to grow. As an indicator of adoption, bandwidth utilized by these services in fourth quarter 2007 was even greater than bandwidth utilized in the same period by all of Amazon.com’s global websites combined.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

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