Impact of OTT Platforms on Adolescents Mental Health: A Case Study

Last few years’ people have spent more time on streaming sites like Netflix, Prime Video, HotStar and etc. streaming sites keep people entertained in their free time. OTT platforms offer a greater number of films, web series and TV content in many languages, sites allowing young and adults to watch whatever they want, and wherever they want to watch. OTT platforms have a significant effect on an individual’s mental health in addition their physical health too. Streaming content encourage a person to watch whole series over the night, these habit increases anxiety, sleeplessness, depression and other mental illness. Hence, the main purpose of this study is to identify the types of content most frequently watched by adolescents and to assess the relationship between OTT content consumption and various mental health outcomes among adolescents. This study Mysore city from Karnataka State is selected for data collection. Total 120 respondents were selected based on purposive sampling method. The study concluded that because of excessive usage of OTT Platforms adolescents became less socialized and the content of OTT Platforms directly impacted on adolescents’ mental health. The main aim of the study is to know how adolescents are mentally affected after watched OTT contents. In streaming sites has wide range of contents which can bring varies disturb in mental health among adolescents. So, therefore it felt necessary to make an in-depth study on “Impact of OTT Platforms on Mental Health among Adolescents: A Case Study”. The relationship between OTT content consumption and various mental health outcomes among adolescents.