Online news and online news video users

In Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, more than half of news users also access video news, according to Gfk research in 2013. Of all news users in Spain, 89 percent are also online news users and 72 percent are video news users, while in the United Kingdom, of all news consumers, 86 percent video in the past month on tablets and 20 percent on smartphones, while 24.6 percent said they viewed video one to three times per month on tablets and 10.3 percent on smartphones. For the most avid users of video, 9.5 percent of the respondents said they viewed video once a day on tablets and 2.9 percent on smartphone, while 18.9 percent watched video on tablets at least once a week and 6.7 percent on smartphones in 2012.

The data set is a part of a collection of 500 revenue and usership trends in mobile, social, Internet, tablet, video and other digital categories, published in the 200-page Global Digital Media Trendbook 2013. GDMT, in its eight year, is to be published by World Newsmedia Network, a not-for-profit media research company, in September 2013. To subscribe to the PDF report and/or the tablet edition, go to www.wnmn.org, or contact mstone@wnmn.org.