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title: Are you TV average?
description: Do you have any idea of the daily average TV listening time in 5 big European countries (France, Germany, UK, Spain and Italy) in 2017? Realytics does!
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# [Are you TV average?](https://blog.realytics.io/en/are-you-tv-average)

 Written by [Raphaëlle](https://blog.realytics.io/en/author/raphaëlle) | 3/15/18 9:00 AM

## **What is it?**

The **daily average TV listening time** in 5 big European countries (France, Germany, UK, Spain and Italy) in 2017.

TV is still one, if not *THE,* **favorite media of European people**!

## **What does Realytics think about it? **

### TV, a very powerful media

TV is a **really powerful media** in the UK, but in other countries too! Other big European countries appear to have a **huge daily average TV listening time**, like **Italy**, with **4h04 a day**. Spain comes right after with 3h45, then France and Germany, with 3h42, and **UK with 3h23**.

The young adults are one of the heavier listeners, with **2h03 of TV watched per day**.

 

### TV is getting digital and un-linear

It is a way to consume TV that is becoming more and more popular, especially for the 25-50 years, who represent around 50% of the audience: **deferred TV.** In the US, around 14% of the TV-viewers watch deferred TV when they are **12% to do so in the United Kingdom** and only 5% (so far) in France. It doesn't mean it is overlooked, not at all actually: it can only grow harder!

The most deferred TV shows watched are **foreign TV series**, **reality shows** and **documentaries.** In France, for example, the american series *Empire* broadcasted on W9 in 2007 **gained +35% of audience** when watched on catch up or replay! Same for *Homeland,* which was broadcasted in the Netherlands and **doubled its audience** thanks to deferred TV and multi-screens. Also, the reality show *Les Marseillais vs Les Ch'tis* saw its audience **boom by +67%** thanks to the 4 screens.

 

Those numbers clearly show the power of TV, in France and in different European countries, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Spain, are also **big consumers of TV**, no matter if it is of the **linear one or the deferred one** (SVOD, replay, catch up, and TV on the 4 screens).

 

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