- Global average daily time spent watching broadcast TV: 170 minutes
- Global average daily time spent watching online video: a bit less than 50 minutes
- Global average daily time spent watching video on mobile devices: 30 minutes
- Global average daily time spent watching video on mobile devices in 2012: 4 minutes
- Percentage of Americans aged 2 to 20 that have video game consoles: 73
- Percentage of Americans aged 2 to 20 that have tablets in their homes: 78
- Percentage of US Millennials (ages 18–35) that have used a public library in the last year: 53
- Percentage of US Gen Xers (ages 36–51) that have used a public library in the last year: 45
- Percentage of Baby Boomers (ages 52–70) that have used a public library in the last year: 43
Sources: We Now Spend 30 Minutes a Day Watching Videos on Our Phones; Millennials Have a Netflix Account. Gen Z Is Playing Video Games; Millennials Are the Most Likely Generation of Americans to Use Public Libraries
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
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