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BBC claims weekly global audience of 308m after adding in Facebook, Youtube and ‘entertainment’

By William Turvill

The BBC claims to reach a record 308m people a week across the world after changing the way it counts its audience.

The corporation now includes entertainment content, Facebook and Youtube views as well as BBC News usage in its estimate.

Its public aim is to have a global reach of 500m people by 2022.

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