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Next Year, People Will Spend More Time Online Than They Will Watching TV. That's a First. (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on from the times-they-are-changin' dept.

Rani Molla, writing for Recode: It's finally happening: Next year, people around the world will spend more time online than they do watching TV, according to new data from measurement company Zenith. In 2019, people are expected to spend an average of 170.6 minutes each day on online activities like watching videos on YouTube, sharing photos on Facebook and shopping on Amazon. They'll spend slightly less time -- 170.3 minutes -- watching TV. The global transition from TV to internet as the main entertainment medium was a long time coming, but it also happened faster than expected. Last year, Zenith predicted that TV would still be more popular in 2019 but has since revised its estimates.

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  1. But I watch TV online... by Kenja · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not sure that "cord cutters" are properly tracked by these metrics.

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  2. Don't Worry by Comboman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't Worry. Just because people aren't watching TV, doesn't mean they're doing anything useful or god forbid actually learning something. They've just replaced one passive, intellectually hollow activity for another. Soap operas and sitcoms have been replaced by social media and Amazon shopping.

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  3. How do you even count this? by cascadingstylesheet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How do you even count this?

    Is watching Amazon video on the PC "TV"? On your phone?

    Old sitcoms on YouTube?