Bezeq publishes the Internet report for 2020, which presents an increase in online use in Israel

Bezeq published the Internet report for 2020, which shows how the Corona epidemic changed our lives with the need for social distance that led to online meetings, work from home, distance learning and many other changes in our daily lives, when in 2020 the number of Internet surfers in Israel was about 6.7 Million users, or about 76.9% of households in the country.

Bezeq’s new report reveals that the average Israeli surfer spent in 2020 as12 hours in front of the screen a day, A full half day, a figure not particularly surprising in light of the fact that the corona routine transferred life to the web with work from home, distance learning, video sessions, digital bureaucracy and more.

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While the issue of working from home is welcomed by users according to the report, with 63% stating that working from home is more comfortable and that 62% would like to continue working from home even after the corona, distance learning is proving problematic to say the least (and not just academically). 96% of the youth have switched to distance learning, 60% of the students indicated that they would not want to continue distance learning after the end of the corona plague, with 83% of them feeling lonely in the current situation.

The need for social distance has led to a significant jump in the use of video calls for meetings, but the field of social networking remains significant in most of us’s lives, with the top three still being WhatsApp which maintains a similar percentage in previous years, Facebook declining slightly despite increasing activity. .

However, these figures are only relevant from a general point of view, with a focus on youth showing a more significant change with a 36% drop in Facebook use and a decrease in Instagram use, compared to a 30% increase in the Tiktok app along with an increase in the use of the Telegram app.

The long time we are at home in front of the screens also affects our content consumption, with 93% using various streaming services, of which 56% on Netflix, where the increase is not limited to video services and is also reflected in various music and audio services, with about 40% increase in listeners Through the various services, 90% of them listen to music, 40% to podcasts and 27% to audio books.

A more in-depth analysis of the data makes it possible to see what our uses are on YouTube and Instagram, with a breakdown by the types of videos or areas followed on the net, with the main area in which YouTube continues to be used to watch music clips, while Instagram mainly follows family and various celebrities, followed by After the field of food.

Keren Leizerowitz, Bezeq’s VP of Marketing and Innovation, said:

The past year has been characterized by the acceleration of digital processes in all sectors. Corona has left us all in homes and changed the way we work, buy and study and most importantly emphasized the need for a stable internet that has become a basic consumer product in every home. The screen, which to this day is perceived as a divider between people, has become a connecting factor and it seems we can not do without it. Even in the post-Corona era, digitization processes will continue to advance rapidly, and if until now there were those who feared online transactions, such as shopping, transferring money or downloading software, Corona has turned us all into digital experts. We will continue to consume more and more video content and the number of devices connected in each home will increase, which will lead to the need for advanced infrastructure and the provision of surfing speeds of hundreds of megabytes per home.

While most of us know that the corona has changed the way we live in Israel and increased the transition to digital, Bezeq’s new report makes it possible to see these changes in a more tangible way, when it is highly recommended to read the The full report of the company.