How Much of the Internet’s Bandwidth Does Netflix Use?

There are plenty of statistics that show how online streams are taking over television, but the most damning bit of evidence is the total amount of bandwidth used by Netflix during primetime. At peak hours, over 37% of all Internet traffic in North America is used to stream movies and shows from Netflix. What about all of the other streaming services, such as YouTube, Amazon, Hulu, and iTunes? As it turns out, Netflix’s traffic exceeds all of them combined. Wrap your head around this: during those same hours, YouTube only accounted for 18% of all traffic. This kind of sheds...

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