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Rajar Q2 2026: Online accounts for more than a third of commercial radio listening hours

Rajar Q2 2026: Online accounts for more than a third of commercial radio listening hours
Rajar Q2 2026

Online now accounts for more than a third of commercial radio listening hours at 33.6%, up from 32.9% last year, according to the latest Rajar figures.

Total online across websites, apps and smart speakers – including non-commercial radio hours, makes up 30.3% of radio listening, up one percentage point year-on-year.

Total digital listening hours meanwhile rose by 33m year-on-year to 786m, driven by a 10m increase in DAB listening hours and a 9m rise in online listening hours from last quarter.

Total digital listening now makes up 75.5% of radio listening, up 2.1 percentage points year-on-year, while AM/FM has fallen to 24.5%.

Share of DAB listening grew 0.9 percentage points year on year to 42.7%, while the share of smart speaker listening grew 0.3 percentage points to 18.7%.


RAJAR Q2 2026: Digital Listening
Platform shares, weekly reach and total hours by listening platform
Period AM / FM Total Digital DAB DTV Total Online Website / Apps Smart Speaker
Platform shares (%)
Q2 2025 26.6% 73.4% 41.8% 2.3% 29.3% 10.9% 18.4%
Q1 2026 24% 76% 43.1% 2.5% 30.4% 11.5% 18.8%
Q2 2026 24.5% 75.5% 42.7% 2.6% 30.3% 11.6% 18.7%
Digital listening weekly reach (%)
Q2 2025 – 75.1% 59.6% 6.1% 43.1% 24% 27.1%
Q1 2026 – 76.5% 60.8% 6.2% 43.5% 24.2% 27.2%
Q2 2026 – 76.7% 61.9% 6.3% 44.3% 24.7% 27.5%
Digital listening total hours (m)
Q2 2025 – 753 429 24 301 112 189
Q1 2026 – 765 434 25 306 116 190
Q2 2026 – 786 444 27 315 120 195
Source: RAJAR
“–” denotes not measured/not applicable (AM/FM is not a digital platform). Bold indicates the highest value in each row.
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