Netflix and YouTube dominate over half of downstream Internet traffic in North America, according to a new report released by Canadian Internet monitoring firm Sandvine.
Downstream traffic is data that goes from a source to a computer, and Netflix’s share of that is 31.6%. YouTube comes in second at about 18.7%, up 9% from the first half of this year.
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The increased dominance of streaming services has also lessened the impact of peer-to-peer traffic and video piracyBitTorrent accounts for around 4% of North American downstream Internet traffic, compared with 31% five years ago. Read more…
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