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The video game Fortnite more popular than television, movies and streaming videos among young people. This according to the video streaming service Netflix. Gaming is more and more popular with young people worldwide. TV viewing is less popular. Netflix Fortnite was now more of a competitor than HBO - another popular streaming company. Fortnite is much more popular with young men. A study from the American Economic Association that between 2015 and 2017, men aged between 21 and 30 more time on gaming. Their playing from 2.3 hours a day to 4 hours, while time on watching TV, movies or streaming .

Netflix said it must more to with Fortnite. It said the video game was a big challenge in "the global war for Internet users' attention". Netflix said: "We with, and lose to, Fortnite....There thousands of competitors in this market [trying] to consumers." Fortnite is by the company Epic Games. It has over 200 million registered users. More than 80 million people in to play the game each month. Fortnite is so popular because the game's competitive version is free to . However, other parts of the game Epic Games to make $3 billion in profit last year. Epic has plans to its own app and game store that will be cheaper than Apple's and Google's.