A survey of UK adults in 2025: on average, they spend 4.5 hours per day online, up 10 minutes on 2024, and 50%+ of time is on Google- and Meta-owned services
## Half of all time online [by people in the UK] is now spent on Alphabet and Meta-owned services — Wow. What a stark, depressing, picture. — ## Adults now spend an average of four and a half hou...
YouGov survey: 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, up from 8.7% in 2023, or ~200K people more
Adam Leventhal / The Athletic : Forums: r/PremierLeague and r/soccer Forums: r/PremierLeague : Illegal streaming: Research reveals rise in piracy and desire for scrapping of 3pm blackout r/soccer : [...
The UK starts enforcing new online child safety laws, requiring websites that host porn, self-harm, suicide, and eating disorder content to verify users' age
Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens …
Ofcom: UK adults now spend 4 hours and 20 minutes on average daily online, a jump from 3 hours and 41 minutes in 2023, which was only an 8-minute bump over 2022
Adults are spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes each day online across smartphones, tablets and computers in the U.K. …
Ofcom: 22.9M UK adults visited Reddit in May 2024, up 47% YoY, making it the fifth biggest social media platform in the UK, above X's 22.1M and LinkedIn's 18.3M
Discussion platform takes fifth place in rankings and is the fastest growing large social media platform in the UK Bluesky: @mattnavarra.com . X: @jim_edwards . LinkedIn: Ollie Wrighton . Forums: r/te...
Starling Bank survey of over 3,000 UK adults: 28% say they were targeted by an AI voice cloning scam in the past year; 46% didn't even know about such scams
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Banking trade body UK Finance: while 60% of all UK adults used mobile banking in 2023, people mainly using cash for everyday spending increased 66% YoY
Banking trade body UK Finance: while 60% of all UK adults used mobile banking in 2023, people mainly using cash for everyday spending increased 66% YoY
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Ofcom: TikTok is the fastest growing news source among UK adults, being used by 7%, up from 1% in 2020; 32% use Facebook, 17% use Twitter, and 16% use Instagram
App is used by 7% of adults for news with nearly half turning to TikTokers rather than conventional outlets for updates
Ofcom survey of 6,600+ UK adults: women are more likely than men to face abuse or harmful content online; 42% of women felt comfortable speaking freely online
The head of media regulator Ofcom says tech firms must do more to protect women online, after its report revealed they were more likely to be victims.