Over the last three years, Italians have increased time spent viewing online entertainment content by 44 %, according to Comscore data for January 2022.
Online video represents the most widespread form of digital entertainment, thanks to operators such as YouTube, which has a 95 % penetration rate among the Italian digital population
Also contributing to the growth are national broadcasters and their video platforms, such as Mediaset Infinity (29 %) and RaiPlay (21 %), as well as international SVoDs such as Netflix (24 %).
According to the data, users in the 18-24 age group consume over 1.2 hours per day on entertainment sites and mobile apps, more than three times as much as the 45+ age group
The research shows that around 39 million Italians (96.2 % of the Italian digital population) have accessed sites or mobile apps in the ‘Entertainment’ category.
This figure places Italy in fourth place among markets with the highest levels of online entertainment penetration, just behind Brazil (97.9 %), Spain (97 %) and the US (96.3 %).
One minute out of five spent online by Italians is devoted to entertainment-related content (20.4 % of total time spent), second only to social networks (22.9 %).
Music content is also booming, with Spotify reaching a 31 % penetration rate.