Success measures

Here's one of those Twitter postcards that the BBC currently loves...

"The future for @bbcthree is looking very bright" - https://t.co/gdft9cxu8O pic.twitter.com/YxndFTRLcz

— BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) September 7, 2017

The "doubling" compares reach of BBC3 amongst 16-34s across the three months April, May June, in 2016, and 2017.

Apr-June 2016: 3.5%
Apr-Jun 2017: 8.2%

The linear BBC3 broadcast channel sailed along at around 20% weekly reach of the total population, In the final quarter before closure, BARB calculated that 41.5m had tried BBC3 for a least 15 minutes over the three months.