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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17815701355171773878736107berke-citak-0cpyFsSUiSc-unsplash_cropped_processed_by_imagy.webp" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">News consumers around the world are now turning more to social media and video platforms than traditional outlets for information, a respected report said Tuesday, warning that old-style business models are under threat.<em> 📷༘  Berke Citak, Unsplash/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>PARIS, France — News consumers around the world are now turning more to social media and video platforms than traditional outlets for information, a respected report said Tuesday, warning that old-style business models are under threat.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/business/06/14/23/influencers-overtaking-journalists-as-news-source-report">Influencers overtaking journalists as news source: report</a></div><p>The year 2026 marks &quot;a significant milestone: for the first time, social media and video network consumption is now ahead of other news sources as the most widely used source of news globally&quot;, at 54 percent, wrote Jim Egan, lead author of the report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.</p><p>The annual report from the institute, attached to the University of Oxford, is a closely-watched tracker of trends reshaping the news media.</p><p>Researchers based their findings on online surveys of almost 100,000 people in 48 countries, run early this year by pollsters YouGov.</p><p>This year&#x27;s edition found 54 percent of respondents said they got news from social media or video platforms in the week before the survey -- rising to 56 percent if AI chatbots like ChatGPT were included.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/06/16/20/interest-in-news-high-but-trust-low-in-the-philippines2020-digital-news-report">Interest in news high, but trust low in the Philippines—2020 Digital News Report</a></div><p>That outstripped the 52 percent who referenced TV news, 51 percent for newspaper apps or websites, and 21 percent for radio.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>SHRINKING REVENUES </strong></div><div><br/></div><p>While it was the first time new platforms topped the old in the average of the global survey, individual countries had already passed the turning point.</p><p>In some countries, though, notably in Europe, traditional media websites and apps remain ahead for now.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/1/10/meta-s-fact-check-pivot-to-hit-orgs-in-ph-global-south-worst-experts-1549">Meta’s fact-check pivot to hit orgs in PH, ‘Global South’ worst — experts</a></div><p>&quot;It is better to think of this more as a drift rather than a shift, but it is nevertheless an important moment,&quot; Egan wrote.</p><p>Across the global survey, three out of 10 respondents said social media or video platforms were their main source of news.</p><p>Among 18-24-year-olds, the proportion rose to half.</p><p>Different social networks also breed different usage patterns.</p><p>Most of the respondents visited X or YouTube specifically to find news.</p><p>But on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, users were likelier to stumble across news while doing something else.</p><p>Television remained the leading news source only among 45-54-year-olds and over-55s.</p><p>The responses about traditional media apps and websites were also grim reading, with none of the age tranches surveyed saying they were their first port of call for news.</p><p>&quot;This has obvious implications in terms of prospects for audience reach, engagement, and for monetization potential,&quot; wrote Egan, a former senior executive at the BBC.</p><p>The scale of the challenge in finding the revenues to pay for reporting is clear from the fact that just 17 percent of respondents said they pay for information online.</p><p>Meanwhile internet giants such as Google and Meta have captured a giant share of the advertising market -- at the expense of traditional media.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>LOSS OF CONFIDENCE </strong></div><div><br/></div><p>The 180-page report reinforces large-scale trends acting on the media for years, including the growing appetite for video content, increasing power for individual news content creators, and loss of confidence in traditional media.</p><p>That last measure reached an all-time low, with just 37 percent of respondents saying they trust &quot;most news most of the time&quot;.</p><p>People are also increasingly turning to AI chatbots for news, which had been the focus of last year&#x27;s Reuters Institute report.</p><p>Some 10 percent of respondents said they used chatbots for news weekly, up from seven percent last year.</p><p>&quot;How to respond to the rapid development and diffusion of generative AI is the biggest 360-degree challenge for today’s news leaders and policymakers,&quot; Egan wrote.</p><p>More broadly, he noted &quot;marked volatility in many of the indicators&quot; tracked in the report, against a backdrop of increased gegopolitical uncertainty.</p><p>&quot;Some of this year&#x27;s report makes for unsettling reading, but it is an especially unsettled time both for the news media sector and for the world at large,&quot; Egan wrote.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong><br/></strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS</strong></div><div><br/><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QpPZQGVwvBY?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ijIQoQjsF9o?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UVlW58-zr4I?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>News consumers around the world are now turning more to social media and video platforms than traditional outlets for information, a respected report said Tuesday, warning that old-style business models are under threat.</p>

News consumers around the world are now turning more to social media and video platforms than traditional outlets for information, a respected report said Tuesday, warning that old-style business models are under threat.

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Social networks, online video outweigh traditional media in 2026

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