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Monday, September 20, 2021

Younger Views Choosing On-Demand vs Live TV


Only 11% of young viewers 18-34 this year are going to live TV channels from cable, satellite, or telco services after turning on their TV sets -- down from 14% in 2020 and 21% in 2019, according to MediaPost citing Hub Entertainment Research.

At the same time, those same young viewers -- 18- to-34-year-olds -- go to Netflix 31% of the time after turning on their TV sets. And good news for the five next-biggest streaming platforms and competitors to Netflix is that their share is growing -- now at 24%.

The share was 16% in 2020 and 14% in 2019 among 18- to-34-year-olds. This seems to have come at the expense of Netflix, which dipped from 39% in 2020 to a 31% data point this year.

The study characterizes the networks and platforms viewers go to after turning on their TV sets as “default” networks.

Looking more broadly at platforms -- online versus pay TV -- 55% of all respondents said online was their “default source for TV viewing," while 39% said that pay TV -- live TV/DVR/VOD -- was their default source.

The data for these results was collected in August 2021, and comes from a study conducted among 1,616 U.S. consumers ages 16-74 who have broadband, and who watch at least one hour of TV per week.

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