Correction: The FOI request was submitted last year, three months before the figures were published in BBCWW’s annual report.
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The BBC is refusing to say how much money it has made from selling web ads aimed at international readers of BBC.com – but we may find out soon enough.
BBC.com started showing ads to non-UK visitors in November 2007. A Freedom Of Information request, submitted last month by Alfred Hermida, who helped found the BBC News website in 1997, asked the question – but the corporation denied it on two grounds…
(1) BBC Worldwide, which operates BBC.com overseas, is not subject to the Freedom Of Information Act
(2) the public-service BBC does hold the info but won’t release it, saying it’s “commercially sensitive” and would “prejudice BBC Worldwide