Nearly 60 percent of American homes — or nearly 70 million households— have connected at least one of their TVs to an internet-enabled device, found the Nielsen Total Audience Report in the second quarter of this year.

That’s up 12 percent from June 2016, and nearly half of those homes are inhabited by consumers advertisers crave: young (under 45), affluent (annual median incomes of $70,500) parents with children.

More than 75 percent of Asian-American households have a smart TV or other internet-connected TV device, such as Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV or Roku. More than 63 percent of Hispanic-Americans have such devices in their homes, and nearly 55 percent of African-American households use smart TVs, multimedia devices and/or game consoles.

Game consoles, such as Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation, have become key platforms through which viewers stream video and watch TV, with such devices in at least 39 million TV homes, which represent more than a third of all TV homes.

And more than a quarter of TV homes — or about 31 million — have at least two devices in the home that are able to stream content to TVs.

Those households also tend to spend more time consuming media, which is the good news for content providers. The bad news is that they are spending less time than ever before on live TV and more time on streaming video and other types of online content.

READ MORE: Nielsen Total Audience Report, Q2 2017

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