Skip to main content

One in three Spaniards has paid to consume digital content in the last year

More and more Spaniards are paying to watch series, listen to music or read online news.Specifically, in the last year, one in three citizens of our country has scratched their pocket to consume digital content , as reflected in the 'Study of use and attitudes of consumption of digital content', which analyzes the uses, habits and attitudes of consumption in Spain of the 12 types of digital content, recently published by the National Telecommunications Observatory and Information Society (ONTSI), attached to Red.es.


Thus, according to the report, almost a third (32.1%) of Spanish have paid in the last year for some of the digital content. With respect to 2011, the payment increases in all analyzed contents, being the most significant increase in the audiovisual contents, 19.5% of individuals have paid in exchange for these in 2016.The second content for which more people have paid have been the electronic books (10.6%), followed by music (10.5%).Despite its popularity, the payment for articles, newspapers and online magazines is the least frequent and the least increased of those analyzed.

One in three Spaniards has paid to consume digital content in the last year

Study of Use and Consumer Attitudes of Digital Contents, Red.es.

In terms of attitudes, there is a certain predisposition to payment, to a greater extent to the payment model by co nsumo or micropayment, and the free model with advertising, both with considerable acceptance.But also to subscription payment and even, to a lesser extent, to the model of freedom of payment or payment at will.However, in general, Spaniards are reserved for payment for the contents and a third state that they sometimes ignore their legal or unauthorized origin.


photos, apps and press are the most demanded digital content


In addition, this study analyzes the intensity of use, the incidence of access problems by geolocation, attitudes towards unauthorized digital content compared to legal ones.Among the main results and conclusions, the following can be highlighted.types of digital content analyzed in the study, the most used are digital photos (72%), Apps (67%) and digital press (66%). The use of social networks follows (60%), movies, series, documentaries and videos (59.5%), music and podcasts (58%) and reading websites, blogs, forums (55%).The other five types of content range from 32% and 20% use penetration in the last year.


One in three Spaniards has paid to consume digital content in the last year

Study of Use and Attitudes of Digital Content Consumption, Red.es

On the other hand, the differences in the use of digital content by sex and age, with greater use among men than among women for the different contents-except for social networks that is practically the same, and the electronic book-, and more use among young people, decreasing as age increases, as well as by income level in both consumption and payment, both higher than higher income at home.The differences by habitat are more diffuse, although the use of all the contents is greater to a larger population size.


Young people prefer internet


Young people from 16 to 24 years old are the consumers who mostly see digital photos, use social networks, watch audiovisual content , listen to music, play video games and share their own content (write in blogs , upload your own photos, etc.) Those who are between 25 and 34 years old are the users who use the Apps to a greater extent, read news and articles, watch and read websites, forums and blogs, use file-sharing programs and follow courses on the Internet.


This same general pattern follows by sociodemographic the intensity of consumption.If the most frequent or intensive user profile is male, young, in households with higher incomes and more urban.Regarding age and as for young people, extends the usual association between young people born immersed in an environment of use of Generalized Internet (from 16 to 24 years) and intensive use of technology, since the segment from 25 to 34 years also stands out as an intensive user of a multitude of contents. For its part, the use of the elderly is affected by utility models , since these stand out in disinterestedness, distrust or ignorance, particularly with regard to social networks or videogames, some of the content they use less.


Finally, a specific analysis on geolocation problems to access content on the Internet-difficulties due to geographical location, either to national platforms from outside the country or to content from other countries from Spain-shows that a 22 , 7% of individuals 16 to 74 years old have said they had this type of problem, and 35.3% among the youngest, 16 to 24 years old.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Internet of plants: a tomato knows as much about networks as you

The possibility of plant species communicating through complex networks, what some scientists have called the internet of plants , is an issue that has been discussed for a long time, at least 20 years.It was in 1997 when the scientist Suzanne Simard , from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada), published a study in the journal Nature on how Forest plants use complex systems where species exchange nutrients, send warning signals and relate to the environment. Although there is no scientific consensus, several investigations seem to support this hypothesis.If confirmed, as we read in a fascinating report by the Sinc Agency, the forests would act as huge structures that are articulated under the soil through a network in which factors invisible to the human eye interact and can determine the future of the climate.Understanding how it works is the challenge that even science faces. internet of plants and the wisdom of forests The premise of Suzanne Simard ...

New setbacks for conspiranoicos: radiofrequencies do not affect health

New evidence published by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Radio Frequency and Health (CCARS) in its 2016 Radio Frequency and Health Report indicates that there are no adverse health effects derived of exposure to radio frequencies emitted by mobile phone antennas or radio and television broadcasting.No evidence has been found on the danger in wireless systems (Wi-Fi) or airport scanners. The new 2016 Radio Frequency and Health Report collects, updates and analyzes the scientific evidence on the subject for the period between January 2013 and June 2016. radio frequencies are not dangerous According to the conclusions of the report " the critical analysis of the evidence supports that there are no technical or sanitary reasons that justify the arbitrary and discretionary imposition of more demanding exposure limits than those recommended by WHO-ICNIRP and the Union European ", while the application of more restrictive limits" would imply increasing the n...

GIF history: where they come from and where they are going

Funny, witty, curious... GIFs have already become a regular resource in social networks and messaging applications and have become part of our daily lives and jokes.It is an image format that has evolved significantly throughout its history and is experiencing a new awakening. In fact, to find its origins, we must go back more than twenty years ago .A moment in which they had little to do with what we know today and an evolution that we could not stop review.So let's find out where they come from and try to catch a glimpse of where they are going. What is a GIF The word GIF responds to the acronym of Graphics Interchange Format , or what is the same, graphic exchange format.A term for the graphic format used in the network for both static images and animations.In more concrete terms, it supports 8 bits per pixel and allows you to display images with up to 256 colors simultaneously-limited by a palette of 16 million-. This particularity makes it a perfect ally of infogr...

Amazon Prime Video arrives in Spain: this is all you need to know

That during the last years there has been a change in the way we enjoy audiovisual content is an obvious reality, as reflected by the huge popularity of streaming services like Netflix and the like.A context in which new competitors are constantly added and that, after the landing of this company in our country just over a year ago, is in full transformation. In fact, today we have learned of the incursion of a new protagonist in this area.Yes, because Amazon Prime Video has just arrived in Spain .A landing that takes place only two weeks away that of HBO, which culminates in a 2016 sown of changes.But, what exactly does it consist of? What advantages and disadvantages does it have compared to the "of its kind"? WHAT AMAZON PRIME VIDEO OFFERS The type, quality and quantity of movies and series offered by the service will be key when determining your success.A catalog a priori smaller than that of HBO and Netflix, but in which we find titles like Seinfield , Into...

What we know and what we suspect in the new Facebook algorithm change

"In my time, we read the newspaper in Facebook ".By 2020, nostalgia has taken over billions of people.In its memory, 2018, when Facebook stopped being Facebook to become Facebook again.Paraiso of engagement for brands and media, land paid for clickbaits and fake news, the social network of Mark Zuckerberg has given a rudder to his algorithm. He wants to return to his origins .And this is what will happen. Related If something goes well, to change it.40.653 million dollars entered in 2017.More than 2.100 million active users per month, a quarter of the world's population.But Zuckerberg is not one of those, of which they are.Want a Facebook with more social connections between people and less presence of brands and media .And what do your users want? Nearly two-thirds of American adults consume news on social networks.More than half do so on their Facebook walls.Pew Research Center data points to a clear trend: Facebook is becoming a media platform.54% of Facebook u...

No kidding: selfitis exists and can be a problem

Sometimes one thinks that social networks were created to share photos of faces putting on little bones and images of dishes overflowing with appetizing foods or, better, of faces putting little bones in front of plates overflowing with appetizing foods in the same shot.is to see faces, faces, faces...all of them smiling, as if looking at the smartphone mirror was the height of happiness.And it does not seem that there are so many beautiful and happy people, or maybe yes, that you go Namely.What envy. Well, what we're going to do: Janarthanan Balakrishnan psychologists from the Thiagarajar School of Management in India; and Mark D.Griffiths, of the Nottingham Trent University, in the United Kingdom, have published an article in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction entitled 'A study on' Selfitis', which names this mania of going around the world taking pictures of oneself, as if beyond our curls the world had been destroyed by that meteorite th...

Twitter shows the best of ourselves (it wasn't always going to be the worst)

In the era of social networks, accustomed to interact daily with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google or WhatsApp, we forget that these tools are phenomenal in the History of Humanity capable of mobilize hundreds of thousands of people in very different geographical locations in a matter of hours or even minutes. Already in the past, Twitter has asserted its more social dimension to mobilize people, companies or organizations and also, from a broader perspective, feelings of solidarity and support or also of rejection and repulses towards causes with an important mediatic impact.Recently, Twitter was once again the engine of solidarity after Dortmund's explosions as the Borussia Dortmund team bus passed on its way to the local stadium on the occasion of the Champions League match between the Borussia and the Monaco. These explosions did not have the devastating effect that they could have caused , so that everything remained in a major social commotion at international lev...

Most apps for children violate your privacy

Do you know if apps with which children enjoy their safety? A team of researchers from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) of the University of Berkeley has studied compliance with the Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in these mobile applications for the little ones, through a scalable dynamic analysis that allows the automatic evaluation of privacy behaviors of Android apps. After studying 5,855 applications aimed at children, the research concludes that most of these apps, 57%, violate the privacy of their users mainly due to the use of data by third parties. apps for children and privacy Although many apps offer options in their configuration to respect the federal law that protects minors in the United States, by disabling tracking, their results suggest that a majority of applications either do not use these options or propagate them in wrong way. In addition, researchers believe that 19% of apps for children send user IDs to third parties to show ...

Are social networks damaging democracy?

The revelations according to which Russian agents inserted ads on Facebook that tried to influence the 2016 US elections raise a disturbing question: is Facebook bad for democracy? As an expert in the social and political repercussions of technology, I think that the problem is not exclusively from Facebook, but that it is much broader: Social networks are weakening some of the conditions that have historically enabled the existence of national states democratic. I understand that it is a dramatic statement, and I do not expect anyone to believe it immediately, but considering that almost half of all potential voters received false news promoted by the Russians in Facebook is an argument that must be debated. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina-Charlotte How we create a shared reality Let's start with two concepts: the "imagined community" and the "bubble filter". ...

This is how visual challenges star in some of the most viral content

Constantly, we all receive in our mail, our WhatsApp or our Facebook account, games that try to test our ingenuity, imagination or visual skill.There are a thousand types, more fun or darker.But they have one thing in common: we cannot avoid trying them and see if we are able to solve them .This is how the visual challenges star in some of the most viral content of the network. Visual challenges, why are we crazy? The visual challenges are games.So, they attend to this playful and fun part that people have no choice but to feed from time to time.They are pure and hard entertainment, with no more pretensions, and that desire to Having fun represents one of the main features that are sought when surfing the Internet . Another of the qualities for which they succeed is because they challenge the mind directly.Human beings love that feeling of feeling a little troubled, somewhat lost, but convinced that there is a solution to that enigma to which, sooner or later, it will come.Rathe...