The consumption of news, video streaming services and social media has surged in recent weeks as the nation spends the majority of its time indoors to prevent the spread of Covid-19. News consumption, television, podcasts, radio and services like Netflix are all seeing increases according to a survey carried out by media firm GroupM Ireland. With the importance of news in the current period, the survey reported a 13% increase in both print and online news consumption. A huge part of modern-day media consumption, social media has increased further with usage of apps like Instagram and Snapchat up 45% and 42% respectively. The surge in internet usage across the globe has led to service like YouTube and Netflix announcing they were reducing the quality of video streams.

Source: Irish Examiner March 29, 2020 16:43 UTC