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Youtube Killed the TV Star: How Online Video is Replacing TV

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday January 13 2016, @11:23AM   
from the cord-cutters-ftw dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The average American watches more than five hours of TV per day, but pretty soon that leisure time may be dominated by YouTube and other online video services.

In an address at CES 2016, YouTube's chief business officer Robert Kyncl argued that digital video will be the single biggest way that Americans spend their free time by 2020 – more than watching TV, listening to music, playing video games, or reading.

The amount of time people spend watching TV each day has been pretty steady for a few years now, Mr. Kyncl pointed out, while time spent watching online videos has grown by more than 50 percent each year. Data from media research firm Nielsen shows that it's not just young people watching online videos, either: adults aged 35 to 49 spent 80 percent more time on video sites in 2014 than in 2013, and adults aged 50 to 64 spent 60 percent more time on video sites over the same time period.

Why the shift?

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• I'd be happy to take FatPhil's money I'd be happy to take FatPhil's money (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 13 2016, @02:51PM

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Wednesday January 13 2016, @02:51PM (#289069) Homepage Journal

  Problem is, I agree with him, so I'm not taking the bet.

  I can't remember the last time I turned a television on. I've watched the news, videos, movies, and everything else on the computer for a long, long time now. For years, I would come into the house, and turn the television OFF, because it annoyed me. More recently, the wife has learned that she can watch all her stuff on the computer, so she doesn't even turn the television on now.

  But, that boob tube still thrives in many other homes. The major networks still have a huge following. I don't see television going out of style in the next 4 years.

  --
  Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.

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• Re:I'd be happy to take FatPhil's money Re:I'd be happy to take FatPhil's money (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2016, @03:39PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2016, @03:39PM (#289088)

  There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that enter a room and turn the television set on and those that enter a room and turn the television set off.

  - The Manchurian Candidate

  Then there are those who haven't seen "The Manchurian Candidate." [wikipedia.org]

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  • Re:I'd be happy to take FatPhil's money (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2016, @04:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2016, @04:57PM (#289115)

    Then there are those who haven't seen "The Manchurian Candidate."

    Probably because they turned the television set off. :-)

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