Online Video Consumption Booming, NTIA Says

Online video watching is skyrocketing, NTIA said Tuesday, citing its latest internet-use survey results. Seventy percent of internet users watched video online in 2017, up from 45 percent in 2013. That viewing rate varies with age, it said, with 86 percent of internet users between the ages of 15 and 24 watching, compared with 40 percent of users 65 and older. It added questions to the 2017 survey about pay-TV consumption and of the 27 percent of U.S. households that lack an MVPD subscription, 60 percent never had one and 40 percent were cord cutters. "Cord never" households tended to be younger, lower income and less likely to be non-Hispanic white than those with cable. Cable-subscribing households typically are over 50 and less likely to have children in the household than cord cutters.