We compared the hourly data consumption of five popular video streaming services.
YouTube and Showmax use the least mobile data in their data-saving modes among the five major video streaming services in South Africa. However, Netflix is vastly more efficient than all its competitors in high-quality streaming.
We compared the data consumption of Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, Showmax, and YouTube to see which offered the most efficient data-saving and high-quality streaming modes. We then divided the data consumption by the number of seconds in each title and multiplied this by 3,600 for an average hourly consumption figure.YouTube, the oldest streaming service of the bunch, consumed the least amount of data on its automatic data-saving setting, with just 80.75MB per hour.
To be fair, it is likely that the maximum resolution of the rival services was full HD , while YouTube’s was 4K .
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