ITV Share By Tamzin Meyer Apr 7 2025 By Tamzin Meyer Apr 7 2025 Watching Emmerdale on ITVX? ITV has news for you What a success! Emmerdale ITVX Share By Tamzin Meyer Apr 7 2025 By Tamzin Meyer Apr 7 2025 7am daily episodes of Emmerdale being uploaded onto ITVX gained a mixed reaction from fans at first. But, it’s proved to be a great thing. Last year, ITV started making episodes of Emmerdale and Coronation Street available from 7am on the day they’re due to air. And, now, it seems like viewers have really taken to the idea as streaming figures continue to soar. It’s proven to be a great success (Credit: ITV/ Composite EI!) ITVX 7am upload prove to be great success In October 2024, ITV announced that it would be adapting to the streaming world. It’d do this by making its daily episode of Emmerdale and Coronation Street available from 7am. This meant that viewers could watch the episodes when best suited them. But, not everyone was happy with the change, fearing that episodes would be spoiled ahead of it airing on the main ITV channel on the evening. article continues below Read all the latest spoilers However, stats for the first quarter of 2025 have revealed that ITVX has achieved a ‘record-breaking’ billion streams in a quarter for the ‘first time ever.’ And, the success of the early soap uploads have had a huge influence on that. Coronation Street and Emmerdale have raked up 124 million streams on ITVX so far this year. Soap viewing is up +35% in comparison to the first quarter of 2024. This suggests that fans have really taken to the 7am uploads. Exciting times for the soap (Credit: ITV) More exciting changes to come for Emmerdale And there are more exciting changes on the way for ITV soap fans as January 2026 will mark a new era for soap. The soap schedule will change, meaning that Emmerdale and Coronation Street will air every night for half an hour each, in a brand-new ‘soap power hour’ from 8pm-9pm. Emmerdale will air for half an hour from 8pm-8.30pm, and Corrie will follow from 8.30pm-9pm. Both soaps are also planning an exciting stunt to see in this new exciting schedule change! How will ‘soap power hour‘ impact the success of viewing figures? Only time will tell! Read more: Who’s leaving Emmerdale? All the cast exits, arrivals and returns Emmerdale usually airs weeknights on ITV at 7.30pm, with an early release on ITVX at 7am. Classic Emmerdale usually airs every weekday on ITV3 at 6am and 6.30am, plus 1.40pm and 2.10pm. Visit our Facebook page @emmerdaleinsider for all the latest Emmerdale news, gossip and spoilers and let us know what you think! Or find us on Twitter@emmerdaleinside Share this:Click to share on X (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Good to Know Share By Tamzin Meyer Apr 7 2025 By Tamzin Meyer Apr 7 2025
