The Most Popular Forms of Online Entertainment in 2016 The impact the internet had on entertainment was huge even before the release of the iPhone, but Apple’s new gadget has caused even more fundamental changes.
Today smartphones are carving into the market share of TV, traditional gaming, and many other forms of entertainment, threatening them with extinction. Since connected devices invaded our pockets, we’ve changed our entertainment habits completely. Here are the preferred forms of online entertainment today (let me give you a hint: most of them have something to do with smartphones).
Social networks
What could be more fun than gathering likes on Facebook with an endless stream of selfies, landscapes, meals, and cats? Or idly swallowing up the updates of others? Social networks are among the preferred pastimes of today’s connected generation. According to a recent study, people use 20% of all the time they spend online to update, and follow, social streams.
Mobile games
The iPhone changed the way we play on the go. Mobile games, which were an almost negligible part of the global gaming industry before 2007, have grown to overtake consoles in the last few years. By 2018, mobile games will account for over one third of the global gaming industry’s revenues, overtaking both PCs and consoles in the process.
Mobile casinos
The online casino industry has grown incredibly in the two decades since its birth. It has expanded to cover all available platforms, and today it is providing players from all over the world with games that run on smartphones, desktop computers, and all other connected devices. One of them, the All Slots Casino, is the perfect example for this incredible development. Launched in 2003 with just a handful of games, and jackpots worth a few thousand dollars, the All Slots Casino has managed to grow its game library incredibly fast – together with its player base. Today, the All Slots Casino has over 700 titles in its downloadable suite. Its smartphone version, the All Slots Mobile Casino, has more than 100 games to choose from, and a variety of secure ways in which players can connect to their accounts, make real money deposits, and redeem their winnings on the go.
Music streaming
Streaming has become much more accessible in the last few years – mostly because mobile broadband has become faster and cheaper. Today, streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, or even Google Play Music, are fighting for the supremacy of the market. Music streaming has grown incredibly fast in the last few years – fast enough to stop the decline of the global music industry.
Live video streaming
Simply sharing videos through specialized portals is not enough anymore. Today people want to follow the events live, over the internet. This has led to the rise of several video streaming services lately, currently struggling for the supremacy on the market. YouTube, Twitch, Periscope, and even Facebook, now offer live video streaming to their users, and more of the same are coming from behind.
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