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BBC Radio 2 continues to have the highest weekly reach of all the national stations at 13.5 million listeners, according to the RAJAR figures for Q4 2008, following a year on year rise of 5%.BBC Radio 1 was not far behind, with 10.5 million listeners, although it was down both year on year and period… Continue reading BBC Radio 2 remains top national station

The latest RAJAR figures, for the fourth quarter of 2008, show that All Commercial radio enjoyed a year on year increase in weekly reach, although its average hours per listener figure was down over the same period.All BBC also saw its average hours per listener figure drop year on year, while its weekly reach showed… Continue reading Weekly reach increase for commercial radio

Internet users have grown by over 2 million people in the past year, according to data released by research company BMRB. According to figures for the third quarter of 2008, the YOY change for this period is 7.2%. While more of us continue to go online for the first time, it appears that takeup is… Continue reading Online Usage Round-Up Q3 2008

Sun Online has beaten the traditional December drop in users, according to new figures released by ABCe. Out of all the national newspaper sites audited by ABCe the Sun‘s online presence is the only one that actually saw an increase in unique users in December.Guardian.co.uk remained on top but was down 3.2 million users on… Continue reading ABCe: Sun Online beats December slump

Four out of the five main terrestrial channels saw declines in viewing share in December – Five was the only channel to buck the downward trend, recording a 0.1 percentage points increase year on year.All ViewingBBC One and ITV1 both experienced a year on year decline of 0.5%, taking their shares down to 21.9% and… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – December 2008

Big online stories of 2008 included the uncertain future of Project Kangaroo, the end of JICIMS, and the three-way wrestling match between Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!.Microsoft launched a $44.6 billion takeover bid to buy Yahoo! at the start of the year, saying that it was confident of delivering up to $1 billion in cost savings… Continue reading 2008 round-up: Online

November was a difficult month all round for most of the terrestrial stations, with only Five recording a year on year increase in commercial revenue. The newest of the terrestrial commercial channels pulled in £29.91 million, an increase of 0.4% compared to November 2007.Among the other terrestrial channels there were double digit falls in year… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – November 2008

Guardian.co.uk has become the first National Newspaper website to break the 26 million unique users mark, according to data released by ABCe.The digital arm of the Guardian News & Media owned paper attracted a record amount of readers in November, although it was only up 67,000 compared with the record breaking figures from the previous… Continue reading ABCe: Another Month, Another Record for Guardian.co.uk

Daily Newspaper MarketThe national daily newspaper market suffered an overall circulation fall of more than 5% year on year in December.The Independent saw the largest fall of the national titles, down 12.3% year on year, followed by the Daily Mirror, down by almost 10% year on year. National Newspaper ABC Figures – December 2008 Daily… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: December 2008

December saw business title City AM‘s distribution decline by a significant 14.5% month on month, to around 87,000 copies, due to the Christmas period.However, the Evening Standard also experienced a relatively large month on month dip of 5.2%, taking its circulation to just over 287,000 copies last month.Meanwhile, London’s morning freesheet only slipped by 0.8%… Continue reading City AM sees month on month circulation dip