Illicit films and series consumption: access frequency through social media France

According to the source, about 15 percent of French illicit consumers of cinema movies and TV shows or live sports rebroadcasts regularly used social media platforms such as Facebook or YouTube in 2019. Furthermore, about 26 percent had already done it once. Analyzing the access frequency with more depth, about 70 percent of the respondents had been accessing social media platforms for illicit movie, TV series consumption for two years, whereas about 13 percent had been doing so for more than five years already.

Since when have you been using YouTube or Facebook to watch films or TV series by watching them directly on these networks or by finding links to other illegal sites?

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Since less than a year	28%
Between 1 and 2 years	41%
Between 3 and 4 years	18%
More than 5 years	13%

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Release date

October 2019

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Region

France

Survey time period

February 14 to March 13, 2019

Number of respondents

629 respondents

Age group

15 years and older

Special properties

regular illegal consumers of films, series or sport retransmission on Facebook or YouTube

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The question was phrased by the source as follows: "Depuis quand utilisez vous YouTube ou Facebook pour regarder les contenus suivants sur ces réseaux, que ce soit en les regardant directement sur ces réseaux ou en y trouvant des liens vers d’autres sites illégaux ?"

The source adds the following information: "The study was conducted using an online collection method via the solicitation of members of the SSI access panel"

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