We all love to keep up to date with our favourite TV shows, but just how many homes in the UK don’t have a TV at all?
TV ownership has been seeing a steady increase year-on-year, in 2018 more than 28 million of us have at least one TV in our home. Explore the graph below to see how TV ownership has increased over the last 5 years.
In a modern household, owning more than one television is not unusual. We now have TVs in our bedrooms, kitchens and even bathrooms! How many households in the UK have more than one TV?
Over 15 million households in the UK have more than one TV, while just 1.25m don’t have a TV at all. Take a look at the chart below to see a detailed breakdown of the number of TVs per household.
You might have been told that watching too much TV can give you square eyes, but that isn’t stopping some Brits from racking up dozens of hours of viewing time every week. We analysed just how many hours a week we spend watching TV. Bear in mind the figures below are just for television shows and catch-up services, the figures don’t include anything watched on streaming services such as Netflix or Amazon Prime.
With the introduction of streaming services and catch-up TV, it is now possible to binge-watch an entire series in one sitting. So just how often are Brits binge-watching their favourite shows? For these results, binge-watching was classified as watching more than one episode in one sitting.
16-24 year olds are the most likely to binge-watch TV shows, with 82% reporting to do it monthly, compared to just 29% of those aged 65+. While a whopping 11% of 16-24 reported binge-watching TV every day.
Streaming services have changed the way we watch TV, no longer do you need to wait a week for the next episode. Whether you stream through Netflix, Amazon Prime, Now TV or another service, more than 10 million households now have at least one streaming subscription.
Netflix is by far the most popular streaming service in the UK, with more than 8 million subscribers. Meanwhile Amazon Prime and NowTV have experienced huge growth over the year of 41% and 40% respectively.
| Streaming Subscription | Growth in Subscribers | Growth Percentage | Total Subscribers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netflix | 1.6 million | 25% | 8.2 million |
| Amazon Prime | 1.3 million | 41% | 4.3 million |
| NowTV | 0.4 million | 40% | 1.5 million |
With so many different streaming services out there, it’s easy to end up with multiple subscriptions. So just how much are Brits spending on streaming services?
You can see more statistics on our TV streaming habit on this page.
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