This is stated in the 2025 new digital news report from the Reuters Institute. According to the report, 54% of adults in the United States receive news through social networks and video platforms.
For comparison: 50%rely on TV and 48%on news sites. Young people, men, popular media, skeptics and landscapes are active in this trend.
Not only the impact of social networks, but also the popularity of video formats is increasing. The weekly news consumption in the video in the United States increased from 55% to 72% in 2025 in 2021.
18-24-year-old youth prefer video and podcast instead of text. The smartphone continues to be the main device to read the news: 57% of Americans under 35 years of age start in the morning. And Podcasts in popularity were equal to newspapers and radio, especially in the form of “presentation -making view”.
Source: Ferra
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