Viewing habits in Spain
In Spain, not only has TV consumption experienced a decrease in popularity, but also in the actual time spent watching broadcasts per day. Taking the highest record as a reference, Spaniards have reduced the amount of time they spend in front of their televisions a day per person, from 246 minutes registered in 2003 down to 208 in 2021.Spain has a favorite television genre and that is fiction, which held about 42 percent of the airing time in the country in 2021. Also that year, the most watched television channel was Telecinco, a Mediaset-operated station that had an audience share of nearly 15 percent, ahead of Atresmedia’s Antena 3 and state-owned La1.
TV advertising
The average information consumer may be gradually turning their backs on television, but TV advertising expenditure in Spain is expected to increase by over 300 million euros from 2020 to 2022. Furthermore, after a decline of free TV advertising revenue by 2020, TV commercials generated roughly 100 million euros more in revenue in 2021 compared with the previous year.Viewing habits are undeniably shifting. With the rise of handheld devices also comes a more demanding and hard-to-please audience that prefers to pay for TV and video services to watch the shows they want whenever and wherever they wish.
