Global sums

Some odds and ends about BBC.com, gathered together for a Freedom of Information request.

BBC.com, the "internationally-facing" website, which carries content from BBC News, generated £25m in advertising revenue in the financial year ending March 2012. It claims to reach 58m households outside the UK - and have 22.8m unique users in the United States - roughly 39%.  

The annual budget provision for BBC World Service is around £250m - although we don't yet know what's planned for 2014. BBC.com joined with BBC World in September last year, to form BBC Global News Ltd. Before that, BBC World (the tv news channel) finances were reported within BBC Worldwide, and mentioned only twice, without figures, in the 2012 annual report.