How do people view videos on their smartphones?
- Posted by Nigel Edelshain
- On May 2, 2016
- Mobile marketing, Video

The growth of video has been well documented. People spend more time watching video than they do on social media, and Cisco projects that 80 percent of all Internet traffic will be video by 2019.
Video usage on smartphones and tablets is growing even more quickly. Mobile video consumption is expected to surpass desktop consumption by the fourth quarter of 2016.
But while it’s clear that mobile video is growing at an incredible rate, it’s less clear how consumers are viewing video on mobile devices, especially smartphones. Which way do they hold their phones? Do they watch only short videos and leave longer ones for larger screens? And where are they watching?
Here are the answers to those questions.