📉 Oh no, Wikipedia's traffic is dropping! 🤖🚶‍♂️ AI's stealing the show with "smart" summaries, and TikTok teens would rather watch dances than read. 🙄📚 Maybe it's time to update those "citations needed" with cat videos? 😹
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/ #WikipediaTraffic #Decline #AIImpact #DigitalTrends #ContentConsumption #CatVideos #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Breaking news! Humans now have the attention span of a goldfish, thanks to TikTok's relentless 60-second diet of brain-numbing content! 🎉 Who needs plot or character development when you can get dopamine hits faster than Congress can hold a hearing on data privacy? 📱🐟
https://www.thenexus.media/tiktok-won-now-everything-is-60-seconds/ #breakingnews #attentionspan #tiktok #dopaminehits #contentconsumption #modernlife #HackerNews #ngated

European streaming data reveals concentrated viewing patterns: New research shows less than 0.1% of content captures 14% of total viewing time across major platforms. https://ppc.land/european-streaming-data-reveals-concentrated-viewing-patterns/ #StreamingData #ViewershipTrends #ContentConsumption #MediaResearch #DigitalMedia

The Conversation: What happens to your brain when you watch videos online at faster speeds than normal. “Watching quickly is also potentially a good way of making sure you sustain your attention and engagement for the entire duration to avoid the mind wandering. But what about the disadvantages? It turns out that there are one or two of those as well.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/the-conversation-what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-watch-videos-online-at-faster-speeds-than-normal/

YouTube Shorts: ora puoi ruotarli (ma forse non vuoi)
#Aggiornamenti #Android #App #ContentConsumption #Google #TechNews #UserExperience #VideoBrevi #YouTube #YouTubeShorts

https://www.ceotech.it/youtube-shorts-ora-puoi-ruotarli-ma-forse-non-vuoi/

Engadget: More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile. “YouTube has officially been around for two decades and a lot has changed over the years — including how people watch it. Now, a new report from YouTube claims TV has overtaken mobile to become the primary device for viewing content in the US.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/12/engadget-more-users-are-watching-youtube-on-tv-than-mobile/

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan reveals that TV has overtaken mobile as the primary device for YouTube viewing in the US, signaling that YouTube is now "the new TV." 📱➡️📺 Big shift in how we consume content! YouTube #Streaming #DigitalMedia #TVTrends #ContentConsumption #TechNews

Study finds 75% of Facebook shares are made without reading the content https://www.psypost.org/study-finds-75-of-facebook-shares-are-made-without-reading-the-content/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SocialMedia #FacebookStudy #ContentConsumption #DigitalBehavior #PoliticalSharing

I have to get back to posting my reading list on Mondays, but last week was lots of reports, including on public libraries, content consumption and independent artists in the performing arts.
https://eb.wtf/3Z2O6tW
#PublicLibraries #ContentConsumption #IndependentArtists #PerformingArts

The AI app that watches YouTube (i.e. video-to-text) or listens to podcasts (i.e. audio-to-text) should just take my money.

h/t @astro_jcm via https://mastodon.online/@astro_jcm/110384958737840067

#contentconsumption #machineaugmented #video #audio #YouTube #Spotify