Streaming services have literally changed the ways we all watch TV-- including families with young kids. The website Exstreamist.com used data from the National Institute of Health to determine that kids who live in "Netflix-only" homes (meaning they don't have traditional cable) miss out on seeing over 230 hours of advertisements per year. The average American child watches 2.68 hours of TV per day, or nearly 980 hours a year. Commercials account for 24 percent of airtime in a 2.68 hour period of cable TV. So kids who watch streaming services (which don't air advertisements) miss seeing over 30 minutes of commercials per day. In March 2017, the site also found that 82 per cent of children living in 'Netflix-only' homes said they don't know what a commercial is. (Daily Mail)
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