Despite significant declines recorded in March, all digital news platforms experienced good growth in April, except for the Independent.co.uk, which saw a -7.4% decline to just over one million daily users.
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Last week RAJAR announced that 90% of the UK adult population – 47.3 million people – tuned in to their selected radio stations in the first quarter of 2013, up by approximately 608,000 on Q1 2012. Here Newsline presents industry reaction on the latest results, with opinion from Indicia, G2 Joshua, Gekko and Adconnection.
The latest figures from NRS for the period April 2012 – March 2013 show that the national newspaper market experienced, with only two exceptions, further year on year declines. The ‘i’ and the Financial Times were the only papers to see any growth, up 3.2% and 3.7%, respectively.
All the headlines and highlights from RAJAR’s Q1 2013 release, including the national stations and networks and the digital, London and breakfast markets.
According to the latest RAJAR findings, listening to radio via a digital platform has increased by 11% year on year, with 26 million people now tuning in to radio via a digitally enabled receiver – a yearly increase of three million.
Total Global Radio and BBC Radio 2 remain at the top of the national stations and networks when it comes to weekly audience reach, according to the latest RAJAR findings for the first quarter of 2013 – with BBC Radio 2 as the top national station, seeing a 4.9% year on year (YoY) increase and reaching over 15 million listeners.
MediaTel has compiled together a PowerPoint of the latest RAJAR Q1 2013 figures for MediaTel subscribers.
The latest ABC National Newspaper results for April show that not much has changed over the month, with just the Sunday titles seeing a marginal -0.3% period on period decline.
The UK’s online population weighed in at 42.4 million users for the month of March, according to data released by online measurement company Nielsen.
The latest ABC digital figures for March 2013 show a general decline for most newsbrands, with the Independent the only platform to see any positive growth – though only very slight.
