Audiences Essay
"How does your own experience of media consumption illustrate wider patters of audience behavior?" Many audiences have changed their behaviors through their own experience of media consumption. As an example in New Zealand, Kiwis spend more of a significant time watching TV with 118 minutes, rather than using other media platforms, but the gap is closing fast, because of COVID. SVoD comes comes in behind with 86 minutes Disney+ and Netflix are streaming services that have caught the attention of audiences which has changed their behaviors as streaming services attendance has increased over time. COVID is also responsible for this as COVID traps audiences at home and prevents them from going out to the cinemas for instance. Cinema attendance has been going down while SVoD and other streaming services like Netflix have gone up, the Cinema attendance is not on a rapid decline but it is slowly decreasing as people can watch movies for free at their homes rather than paying for i