{"id":3502,"date":"2025-07-12T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3502\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T06:00:26","slug":"eu-people-turn-to-internet-for-cultural-purposes-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3502\/","title":{"rendered":"EU people turn to internet for cultural purposes &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024, people in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> widely used the internet for cultural purposes. The most common activity was watching TV or videos online, reported by 79% of internet users. This was followed by reading online news sites, newspapers or news magazines (70%), listening to or downloading music (65%) and playing or downloading games (34%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The highest shares of internet users watching TV or videos online were recorded in the Netherlands and Finland (both 96%) and Cyprus (94%), while the lowest were observed in Romania (44%), Bulgaria (55%) and Slovakia (63%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Reading news online (from sites, newspapers or magazines) was reported by 91% of internet users in Czechia, 90% in Finland and 89% in Cyprus. By contrast, the lowest shares were in Romania (50%), France (56%) and Italy (62%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4b3a2064-200a-ecfd-a9a4-df232251538f\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Use of internet for selected cultural purposes, 2024, % of individuals who used internet in the 3 months before the survey. Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4b3a2064-200a-ecfd-a9a4-df232251538f\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/isoc_ci_ac_i\/default\/table?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">isoc_ci_ac_i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over one-third of users bought cultural goods and services online<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024, 36% of internet users in the EU purchased some kind of cultural goods and services online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Subscriptions were popular, particularly those to films, series and sports streaming services (30%) and to music streaming services (21%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">One-quarter of internet users (25%) bought tickets to events.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">When it comes to reading habits, printed books, magazines and newspapers (16%) were more popular than e-books and audio books (7%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Additionally, internet users paid to download software (11%), games (10%) and a minor part purchased physical copies of other audiovisual contents such as music and films or series (6%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ae7499b9-a122-231c-b8ef-872dc1a09244\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Use of internet for buying cultural goods and services in the last 3 months, EU, 2024, % of individuals who used internet  in the 3 months before the survey. Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ae7499b9-a122-231c-b8ef-872dc1a09244\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/18680a81-0cb3-46b7-9214-967ac540b891?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">isoc_ec_ibgs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, people in the EU widely used the internet for cultural purposes. 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