3. Time spent on the internet and social media remains the same.
Filipinos spend the same amount of time – 6.3 hours in the internet and 4.3 hours on social media. Global averages at 4.4 and 2.4 respectively.
With the increase of 33% of mobile social accounts, we’ll be expecting increase of time spent on social media (which is now up to about 15-17mins more on average).
4. Average TV viewing time by internet users at 2 hrs 47m daily.
This is a new data added on the wearesocial.sg reports. The multi-screen lifestyle is surely invading the Filipinos attention. How do you account for usage of the internet, social media, and the television at the same time? Via multitasking.
5. Internet speed still terrible at 2.5 mbps average net connection speed.
I jokingly mentioned on the Global Voices Summit 2015 that perhaps the reason why we spend too much time on the internet is because we are waiting for our websites to load due to our crappy internet speed in the Philippines.
That may be true with the 2.5 mbps average speed which brings us within the bottom 3 of the crappiest speed along with Vietnam and India.
6. Top 3 social media platforms of choice by Filipinos remain the same.
Filipinos still use prefer these three social media platforms in order:
Facebook
Twitter
Google+
7. Pinterest shows as newcomer among the platforms.
Since the current data is survey-based, I reckon the sample have mentioned Pinterest well often for it to deserve a spot on the list.
8. Social media includes growing use of social apps.
social platforms philippines 2015
This brings into view the heavy use of the following social chat apps/voip/messenger:
Facebook Messenger
Skype
Viber
Which of these platforms are you personally using? Which of these stats are surprising for you?