A survey of consumers conducted in October 2022 in the United States discovered that big brand SVOD (subscription video on demand) services were considered to be a must-have source of entertainment by about three-quarters (74 percent) of those subscribed to them. Similarly, social media platforms were considered to be essential sources of entertainment by 73 percent of households that use them. In addition, about two-thirds of consumers considered reading, streaming music sources, and MVPD/VMVPD subscriptions to be must-have sources of entertainment.
Categories of sources of entertainment rated as must have by consumers in the United States as of October 2022
Household decision-maker/shares in decisions on entertainment, have broadband access, U.S. census balanced
Supplementary notes
*Big brands SVODs (n=2,504), social media platform (n=2,562), reading (n=1,364), streaming music sources (n=1,957), MVPD/VMVPD subscriptions (n=2,063).
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Hub Entertainment Research. (November 17, 2022). Categories of sources of entertainment rated as must have by consumers in the United States as of October 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved October 30, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1362994/essential-sources-entertainment-consumers-us/
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