For nearly a decade, Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice has used this report to compare and contrast consumer attitudes and behaviors across generations related to entertainment devices, advertising, media consumption, social networking sites, and the Internet. This year’s survey puts a spotlight on the binge-watching culture, increased interest in streaming, social media’s influence on purchasing preferences, and more. Explore the trends that are influencing and reshaping media consumption behaviors among US consumers.
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This is a look at the generational breakdown. Millennials are now the largest generation, surpassing the Baby Boomers. Since this is such a large grouping of consumers, we have broken Millennials into three separate age groups this year. 14-18 year olds who are still primarily living at home with parents, 19-25 year olds who are largely in college or just starting households of their own, and 26-32 year olds who are in many cases on their own and starting families of their own.
Q17
Millennials spend nearly 50% of their time TV shows on devices other than a TV, primarily laptops/desktops, followed by smartphones and tablets.
Millennials spend nearly 50% of their time watching movies and TV shows on devices other than a TV, primarily laptops/desktops, followed by smartphones and tablets. The TV and movie percentages are so close that we no longer see a device distinction for how consumers prefer to watch long-form and short-form content, and both are increasingly watched on mobile devices. Nearly 20% of Millennials’ TV/movie viewing time is now on mobile devices (smartphones and tablets).
Millennials spend nearly 50% of their time watching movies and TV shows on devices other than a TV, primarily laptops/desktops, followed by smartphones and tablets. The TV and movie percentages are so close that we no longer see a device distinction for how consumers prefer to watch long-form and short-form content, and both are increasingly watched on mobile devices. Nearly 20% of Millennials’ TV/movie viewing time is now on mobile devices (smartphones and tablets).
Q36
Above all, Home Internet is the most valued household subscription across all generations with 95% of US consumer subscribers placing it in their top 3 services. Nearly half of US consumers now subscribe to a streaming video service. Of those subscribers, 61% of it into their top three services. Millennials aged 14-25 value their streaming video services more than Pay TV subscriptions.
Nearly half of US consumers now subscribe to a streaming video service. Of those subscribers, 61% of consumers value their streaming video service among their top three subscription services.
Millennials age 14-25 value their streaming video service subscriptions more than pay TV.
Q36
Above all, Home Internet is the most valued household subscription across all generations with 95% of US consumer subscribers placing it in their top 3 services. Nearly half of US consumers now subscribe to a streaming video service. Of those subscribers, 61% of it into their top three services. Millennials aged 14-25 value their streaming video services more than Pay TV subscriptions.
Nearly half of US consumers now subscribe to a streaming video service. Of those subscribers, 61% of consumers value their streaming video service among their top three subscription services.
Millennials age 14-25 value their streaming video service subscriptions more than pay TV.
QNEW14
Above all, Home Internet is the most valued household subscription across all generations with 95% of US consumers placing it in their top 3 services. Nearly half of US consumers now subscribe to a streaming video service. Of those subscribers, 61% of it into their top three services. Millennials aged 14-25 value their streaming video services more than Pay TV subscriptions.
Is there a trend with the other generations?
Under 32 year olds (Millennials) are streaming more hours than watching live. Millennials are watching less than a third of their content live.
Streaming more than watching live
Q73
Doing 5 things at once.
for Millennials are most frequently surfing the web, social media, email, and text messaging.
92% of consumers are multitasking while watching TV. Millennials are typically, on average, doing four additional activities while watching TV.
QNEW24, QNEW25
70% of consumers, and more than 80% of Millennials, binge-watch TV content. Among those, nearly a third of consumers are binge-watching shows weekly.
More than two-thirds of consumers binge-watch TV shows (3+ episodes in one-sitting), with 70% of them participating in this activity at least monthly
The average binge-watching session involves watching 5 episodes at a time
Binge-watchers place a higher value on their streaming services, and drive subscriptions to services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, and HBO Now
They also place greater importance on their internet speed, and are more willing to pay more for faster speeds
Q40
While recommendations from friends and tv ads continue to have the highest influence over consumers buying decisions, there are significant generation differences among those more non-traditional advertising mechanisms. Millennials and X-ers significantly more influenced by social media, video game, and celebrity/online personality endorsements.
Influence from recommendations within Social Media circle exceeds TV for Millennials aged 19-32.
Online review by someone you don’t know exceeds TV for Millennials aged 19-32
Better chance of reaching the Millennials online than with TV
TV ads are less effective than online reviews from someone you don’t know.
For Millennials aged 19-32, recommendations from their social media circle and online reviews have now surpassed the influence of TV advertising.
Millennials and Xers are also significantly more influenced by social media, video game, and celebrity/online personality endorsements. While social media ads have been rising in influence among Millennials, more than 50% of Millennials now rank them as having a high/medium influence over their buying decisions.
Typically viewed to be a more intrusive form of advertising, Millennials are more accepting of receiving ads on their smartphones. The influence of SMS/text message advertisements had a big increase among Millennials this year, rising nearly 12% across the age groups.
Q85
Checking social networks is a daily habit for more than half of US consumers
66% of Millennials aged 19-32 value their time interacting with friends on social media sites as much as their time spent with friends in-person.
Q89
Social media, for Millennials, is now the number one source for News.
Can we get a line chart –X axis is the DDS edition, and Y-axis is the value. Show TV and Social Media numbers to show tipping point where the numbers cross, by generation. Need Net numbers for Social Media and TV for Millennials from DDS9 and DDS8.
CNN story leak about candidate pulling out and retraction.
Social media sites have surpassed television as the most popular source of news for Millennials
Q89
Social media, for Millennials, is now the number one source for News.
Can we get a line chart –X axis is the DDS edition, and Y-axis is the value. Show TV and Social Media numbers to show tipping point where the numbers cross, by generation. Need Net numbers for Social Media and TV for Millennials from DDS9 and DDS8.
CNN story leak about candidate pulling out and retraction.
Social media sites have surpassed television as the most popular source of news for Millennials