bosses and we can call these shots ourselves, can t we? l yes, you started out on talk radio, and then you took it to twitch, the video streaming platform, and we are going to hear later on in the show how you have now gone direct to consumer, you are selling it to fans, basically, right? yes, on patreon, so they pay us directly and we give them different things for different tiers of money. and also joining us on today s programme is the european tech correspondent for the financial times and yih choung teh, strategy and research director at ofcom, because we are going to start the show by looking at how the pandemic has supercharged some of the trends we have been seeing in media, in digital media in particular. so, yih choung, you have published a report today for ofcom looking at our changing online habits. who have been the big winners from lockdown? well, i would first observe that the uk was already well on its way to being an online nation, but the pandemic has really accelerat
the pandemic has supercharged some of the trends we have been seeing in media, in digital media in particular. so, yih choung, you have published a report today for ofcom looking at our changing online habits. who have been the big winners from lockdown? well, i would first observe that the uk was already well on its way to being an online nation, but the pandemic has really accelerated our migration to online services. so much so that britain tops other european countries for the amount of time we spent online during lockdown, with everything from shopping, socialising, culture, work and entertainment moving online. but you found that almost a third of time spent online was just on things like google and facebook. there is definitely a lot of time spent on some of those major platforms, but there is a bit of a mixture. i think a quite striking fact was that 92% of three and four year olds are using sites like youtube and tiktok. of course, tiktok has been a huge success during the pan