In 2021, almost **** in ** viewers in the United States consider watching content on YouTube to be watching content on TV. This represents an increase from the previous year when ** percent of U.S. video audiences equated the popular social video platform to the more mainstream TV content. In 2020, approximately *** in ** respondents from Denmark regarded watching YouTube as watching TV, while in 2021 that number doubled to ** percent of the country's audience.
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