Overall, nearly eight in ten (78%) of City adults watched video content on the Internet in 2017. In terms of payment services, nearly one in two City households (48%) subscribed to this type of entertainment platform. online, an increase of 12 percentage points compared to 2016. On average, City adults who watched video content spent 4.6 hours per week on pay platforms such as Myflixer, compared to 3.7 hours for Quebeckers who watched video content on free platforms like YouTube.
One in three adults (33%) watched or downloaded programs, television series or pay movies (this rate was 22% in 2016). The survey also reveals that adults aged 18 to 34 are the most likely to practice this activity, as it is carried out by 56% of them. There is also growing spending on online entertainment. Of the adults who spent on entertainment, 57% spent on average between $ 10 and $ 49 per month (38% in 2016).
Nearly one in four Quebecers listen to music on a continuous basis
Listening to music online on platforms like Spotify, Deezer, Google Play, or others is an activity practiced by 37% of City adults, up 8 percentage points from 2016. The 18 to 24-year-olds are not only more many listen to music online, but also to download it. In fact, 60% of young adults downloaded music on the Web in 2017, compared to 33% for all adults. In addition, the survey reveals that 70% of Internet users who listen to music continuously on the Internet spend at least an hour per day (27 percentage points more than in 2016).
Entertainment on mobile devices
Among the online entertainment activities practiced on mobiles by Quebeckers are listening to videos, web title, series, movies or web radios (32%), online gaming (22%), live television viewing ( 19%) and reading or listening to digital books (10%).
Several followers of the online game
Quebeckers remain numerous to play online games in 2017, as 40% of adults do it. The games on networking sites, such as Farmville or Candy Crush Saga, have gained followers this year, from 13% in 2015 to 18% in 2017. Large users of online games (61%), adults of 18 at age 24, more people opt for network games, either on a game console or a computer (46%) or on gaming sites (34%).
Movies online, free and without risk of virus
While the offer of sites to watch movies is great, many of them are an epicenter of threats. Know the safe alternatives. Watching movies online is the standard of the vast majority of moviegoers today. Cable TV is not going through its best, and it is anticipated that the current subscription models will disappear in just 10 years.
This is not surprising because using the Internet to see what we want “on demand” benefits us by having a better quality, absence of commercial breaks, the possibility of pausing at any time and even see on different devices at the same time, whether PC , tablet or smartphone.
But the great popularity of sites to watch movies and series puts computers at serious risk since many of these have malware that is added to browsers and allows the entry of threats, infecting the PC of the unseen user.
