YouTube use to consume digital content UK 2012-2018

This statistic presents the share of legal digital content consumers that used YouTube to consume and/or share digital content in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2018. As of the most recent survey wave, ending in March 2018, 58 percent of respondents reported using YouTube for this purpose.

Use of YouTube to consume or share digital content among legal digital content consumers in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2012 to 2018

Characteristic	Share of respondents
March 2018	53%
March 2017	48%
March to May 2016	46%
March to May 2015	41%
March to May 2013	42%
November 2012 to January 2013	39%
August to October 2012	42%

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Release date

July 2018

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

August 2012 to March 2018

Number of respondents

2,142*

Age group

12 years and older

Special properties

non-infringers**; those who had downloaded, streamed/accessed or shared any of the six content types in the past three months***

Supplementary notes

* Base of most recent survey wave (Wave 8). Base varied by wave: n (W2) = 2,062; n (W3) = 2,206; n (W4) = 2,034; n(W5) = 1,171; n (W6) = 2,284; n (W7) = 2,254; n (W8) = 2,142.
** Only respondents that reported having consumed no illegal digital content.
*** Content types included: music, e-books, video games, computer software, films and tv shows.
Online (CAWI) and face-to-face (CAPI) surveys were used.

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