In the 1950’s and 1960’s radio and television broadcasters and publishers could never imagine a public whose appetite for what they do would be so great that it consumed half of their waking hours.
Today we have evidence that the Internet, cell phones, Apple and social networking have created addicts out of people of all ages.
In fact, all of this growth in media consumption has happened within the last two years and far exceeds media demand for three decades prior.
There are hard cold facts to back it up.
A new Ipsos OTX study of 7,000 online consumers spanning a wide age range of between 13 and 74 confirms that among those surveyed people are now spending half of all their waking hours with media and have increased their media consumption by a whopping hour a day over the past two years.
To put that in perspective, they spend more time consuming media than working or sleeping.
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