In a report published by Think With Google, Google’s research arm, 44 percent of Egypt’s Internet users use YouTube on a daily basis.
Some 97 percent of them have a good opinion about using the video site for various reasons, which includes entertainment, news, watch music videos and listen to music.
Egypt is taunted to have over 21 million internet users in Africa, according to InternetWorldStats, and ranks second only to Nigeria which has over 45 million users.
According to the report, over 70 percent of the users find YouTube to be a great pass time site and also agree that it has great video library.
Light users and heavy users of YouTube classify what they gain from the service. It’s entertaining, it’s modern, it’s up to date, it’s comprehensive and it’s global, are the top five traits they gave to YouTube.
The top five activities on YouTube include: To be up to date (83 percent), Listen to Music (51 percent)Watch music video clips (47 percent), to see professionally made videos (44 percent) and to relax (36 percent).
The most surprising stats to come out is that majority of the users are not registered on YouTube. The service does not require you to sign up to view videos only when uploading videos. Only 18 percent of users have registered.
The research took details of 615 respondents who were over 15 years old from different parts of Urban Egypt and was carried out by TNS Africa and Middle East.
