After being dominated by the US and UK, the catch up tv market is starting to make inroads into other Countries. The French are according to a new study, digging tv online. The study shows that around three quarters (71%) of French internet users are making use of catch up tv to view missed shows. They use the internet to catch up (mainly) on US TV shows.

The study comes from from MEC and GroupM Interaction, who discovered that catching up on tv shows online is practised on a regular basis by web users. When surveyed, 76% of respondents said they had made use of catch-up TV services within the previous month. This figure is a rise from 2008 when the figure was 52%.

Over half of viewers (56%) said they use catch up to compliment traditional tv viewing (as most people do) and found that the most popular streams to watch, besides US shows was documentaries and news shows.

The French growth for online tv, is representative of the world in general, as catch up tv is a service most people now use and is still pretty much solely available from a PC.

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