2025 Digital Media Trends: Social Platforms Are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment
- A hundred thousand songs are uploaded daily to streaming platforms.
- In the last year 1.7 million books were self-published.
- 2,500 videos are uploaded to YouTube each minute.
- There are now 3 million podcasts—and 30 million podcast episodes were released last year.
- 86% of youngsters want to grow up to become influencers, and cont
Ted Gioia • The State of the Culture
- The average person spends 2 hours and 24 minutes on social media every day.
- The average American checks their mobile device 159 times a day .
- Users will spend 4 trillion hours on social media this year.
- 46% of Americans say they watch more user-generated content on social media than they watch movies and television on streaming services.
- Americans spe
Worldwide Daily Social Media Usage (New 2025 Data)
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
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