There is report showed that BBC iPlayer may lose its dominant position on the market in the near future. It is one of the most popular video catch-up services in the UK.

This BBC iPlayer came to the market in 2007. There is data claimed that its platform has experienced its first decline in popularity recently. This is not good news for BBC iPlayer publisher.

According to the latest statistics seem to state that the number of streaming requests in March drop to 7% that compared to the same period in 2014.

Because of iPlayer’s slowest quarterly growth on record at only 2 percent, which lead to the number of requests also dropped to 230 million.

The explanation on the report came from BBC showed that iPlayer continue perform strongly, but there is economic downturn of this variations of factors.

The BBC recently addressed that the company would close its subscription-based Global iPlayer soon, and this news comes to the public after its announcement.

There is evidence showed that the EU plans streaming services across Europe. While BBC iPlayer is included. The EU hopes to make more streaming services available to all Europeans. That will be a new revolution of video catch-up around the European countries.