Do you prefer streaming to broadcast TV?

The UK’s viewing habits are rapidly changing, with around half of homes now subscribing to TV streaming services such as Netflix.

For the first time, young people now spend more than an hour on YouTube each day, the Ofcom report also showed, and adults watch around half an hour of YouTube a day.

Average daily viewing of streaming services rose by seven minutes last year to 26 minutes.

Traditional TV is in decline despite the broadcasters showing over 100 times more original, UK-made shows than the streaming giants.

While traditional viewing – watching as it airs or recordings shortly afterwards – still accounts for most TV time (three hours and 12 minutes a day), viewers now watch 50 minutes less traditional TV each day than in 2010 and the shift is most pronounced among younger people.

Older people are still watching more TV, said Ofcom’s Media Nations report, published as the row into the withdrawal of the free, universal TV licence for over-75s continues.

But viewing by over-54s fell by 1% in the first half of 2019.

The rise in streaming comes despite viewers feeling broadly satisfied with the quality of broadcast TV, Ofcom said.

What are your views? Do you prefer the convenience of streaming or are you happy to watch programmes as they are broadcast?