Online

It was another strong year for online in Scotland, with an average of 2.3 million users visiting our sites each week. News and sport continue to draw the largest audiences and blogs by key correspondents remain popular. Video webcasts with Scotland's political leaders were broadcast online as part of our party political conference coverage.

The re-launched and refreshed offerings performed strongly during the exams; unique users peaked at over 70,000 per week and May's weekly average page visits reached 850,000.

The music team covered many of Scotland's major festivals. had by far its best year, with 1.3 million discrete requests for streamed video – a four-fold increase on 2008.

site re-launched in October with rich archive and contributory debate, the quality of which led to a web-to-TV commission – a studio debate, covering national identity and history in schools, with panellists Neil Oliver and actor Brian Cox. Objects from Scottish museums also contributed to Â鶹Éç Radio 4's History of the World partnership with The British Museum.

Our six sites were re-launched, with 45,000 users visiting around 220,000 pages each week at the turn of the year.

Burns Night brought with it confirmation that our site had passed one million unique users since its launch in January 2009. Over 450 recordings of Burns’ poems are now available on the site, the remainder to be added in the upcoming year.

In March, our webcast of the first event from Pacific Quay, in partnership with the Scottish Book Trust, saw former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen webcast to an audience of over 100,000 schoolchildren.