Survey Shows More People Watching TV Now Then 5 Years Ago

A survey by electronics company Samsung has found that about 41% of viewers claim that watching documentaries is their favourite genre compared to other programmes, with Blue Planet II currently the most watched show of 2017 peaking with 14.1 million viewers^.

With a plethora of streaming services and uncapped internet currently available, Samsung’s recent survey also shows people are watching more television than ever, with a fifth of claiming to watch more TV now than they did five years ago thanks to on-demand technology and viewer’s appetite for binge-watching.

According to a MyBroadband survey of 1,587 IT professionals and tech-savvy individuals in South Africa, 73.85% of respondents said they were an online pirate, while 51.17% of respondents said they subscribed to a media streaming service^.

The survey also showed that Netflix was by far the most popular streaming service in the country, with 84.85% of users signed up for a Netflix package.

The size of the television also seemed to be important to viewers with research indicating that 40 inches was the average TV screen size globally in 2016.

Samsung has constantly implemented breakthrough innovations in TV technology resulting in the Korean company selling a whopping 427 million televisions around the world.