Every third Russian pays for content online, every sixth - for online games

In the first half of 2015, Russians spent an average of 23% more on content on the Internet than in the second half of 2014. Every third Internet user spends money on content, Synovate Comcon calculated .

The average cost of content in the first half of 2015 was 691 rubles, which is 51 rubles more than in the second half of last year. Every second person who spends online pays for online games. For exclusive content users spend 1232 rubles per quarter.

The most popular category of content is games. In second place are apps for smartphones and tablets. Then comes the desktop software. Electronic and audio books and films, respectively, occupy the fourth and fifth places.
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The study involved two and a half thousand people in one hundred and forty cities of Russia with a population of one hundred thousand people.







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