Kids now spend more time online than watching TV

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 15-Feb-17

Roy Morgan’s Young Australians Survey has found that Australians aged 6-13 spent an average of almost 12 hours a week using the internet in 2016, almost double the six-and-a-bit hours a week kids spent online in 2008. Including all internet use at home, school or elsewhere, the time spent online has risen consistently over the period, increasing by an average 42 minutes each year. In contrast, the average Australian youngster spent 10.5 hours a week watching TV in 2016, down from over 14.5 hours a week in 2008. However, almost 30 per cent of kids’ internet usage is done outside the home. At home, kids spend almost eight and a half hours a week using the internet – still around two hours less than they spend watching TV.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED

Magazine readership finishes 2016 on a high

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 10-Feb-17

Roy Morgan Research has released the Australian Magazine Print Readership and Cross-Platform Audience results for the 12 months to December 2016. Print magazines reached 12,658,000 Australians aged 14+ in 2016, up 3.6 per cent since 2015. "Coles Magazine" remained the most widely-read print magazine during the period, with an average readership of 3,729,000 per issue (an increase of 24.5 per cent). Meanwhile, "Better Homes & Gardens" and "Australian Women’s Weekly" continue to have the highest Cross-Platform Audiences, at 2,112,000 and 1,965,000 respectively.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED

Digital audience growth continued to drive newspaper readership higher in 2016

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 10-Feb-17

Roy Morgan Research has released the Print Readership and Cross-Platform Audience results for Australian Newspapers for the 12 months to December 2016. Some 8,153,000 million Australians aged 14+ (41 per cent) read print newspapers in an average week in 2016. This is down 4.3 per cent, or just over half a million readers, compared with 2015. Monday to Friday dailies reach a combined 5.7 million readers during an average week (down 4.8 per cent). Some 4.9 million people read Saturday print newspapers in an average week in 2016 (down 2.7 per cent), and Sunday titles reached 4.4 million (down 4.3 per cent). Meanwhile, the total cross-platform reach of Australian mastheads measured across both print and digital increased to 13.1 million in 2016. Two in three Australians now access these news mastheads across any platform and any device in an average week.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ, SEVEN WEST MEDIA LIMITED – ASX SWM

Satisfaction with big four banks up in December but high-value customers left well behind for satisfaction and advocacy

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 8-Feb-17

A Roy Morgan Research Single Source survey has found that the satisfaction level of personal customers of Australia’s four major banks was 79.9% in the six months to December 2016, compared with 79.5% in November. However, the top-quintile customers (top 20%), who account for 62.9% of the total value of the financial services market across all banking and wealth-management products, had the lowest satisfaction level of all the quintiles (73.4%) and the lowest level of advocacy with a "net promoter score" (NPS3) of minus 23.9. The Commonwealth Bank had the highest satisfaction rating among top-quintile customers (75.6%), although the smaller Teachers Mutual Bank had the highest satisfaction rating among these customers, at 96.1%.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA – ASX CBA, WESTPAC BANKING CORPORATION – ASX WBC, NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED – ASX NAB, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP LIMITED – ASX ANZ, TEACHERS MUTUAL BANK LIMITED, BENDIGO BANK, ING DIRECT

Carefree overtakes Libra as Australia’s top tampon brand

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 7-Feb-17

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 22% of Australian women aged 14+ (just over 2.2 million) purchased tampons in an average four weeks in the year to September 2016. This compares with 21% in the year to September 2015. The survey also shows that the proportion of tampon buyers purchasing the Libra brand in an average four weeks has fallen from 31% to 26% year-on-year, while the proportion who buy Carefree has risen from 26% to 27%. U by Kotex is in third place, purchased by 24% of tampon buyers in an average four weeks (up from 22%).

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, LIBRA, CAREFREE, U BY KOTEX, TAMPAX, COTTONS

Pie Face, pies and football

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 7-Feb-17

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that the number of Australians aged 14+ who like eating pies (and pasties) has grown from 8.1 million (42.6%) to almost 9.4 million people (47.5%) since 2013. The survey, which was carried out in the year to September 2016, also shows that 51.0% of Australians who live in rural areas are partial to pies/pasties, compared with 45.6% of city dwellers. Analysis by gender shows that men comprise 57.4% of pie fans, while 56.4% of AFL supporters and 55.5% of NRL supporters like eating pies/pasties.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE, NATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE, THE A LEAGUE PTY LTD, PIE FACE PTY LTD

Overall holiday intention down (but not everyone’s staying put)

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 31-Jan-17

The latest findings from the Roy Morgan Holiday Tracking Survey show that the proportion of Australians planning to take a holiday slipped from 73% to its lowest point in almost three years (69%) in the 12 months to September 2016. The recent downturn appears to have been driven primarily by declining domestic holiday intention. In the September 2015 quarter, 73% of the population had a holiday in the pipeline, with 58% reporting that they were planning a holiday in Australia in the coming 12 months. As of the September 2016 quarter, total holiday intention had dropped to 69%, and domestic intention was at 55%. In contrast, overseas holiday intention is the same as it was a year ago (11%). Analysis using Roy Morgan’s consumer-profiling tool Helix Personas shows that educated, high-earning "Humanitarians" and the slightly younger, socially aware (but no less well paid) "New School Cool" Personas have the strongest overall holiday intention (at 87% apiece).

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED

The telly and the trolley: what Sunday night TV shows’ viewers spend on the week’s groceries

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 25-Jan-17

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that Australians spend over two billion dollars a week on groceries. Meanwhile, viewers of the average Sunday night episode of Seven’s "My Kitchen Rules" together spend an average $236 million a week on groceries – around three times more than viewers of either Nine’s "Australia’s Got Talent" ($81 million) or Ten’s "I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here" ($71 million), which also aired on Sunday nights in early 2016. Seven’s mid-year season of "House Rules" reached $167 million worth of the week’s grocery expenditure on an average Sunday night, ahead of "The Voice" ($143 million) and "MasterChef" ($120 million). Reconfiguring viewership as an audience dollar value in the grocery market delivers the strongest boost to "MasterChef". Its typical pool of Sunday night viewers is not only popular among grocery buyers, but they spend $18 more a week than the average Australian. The show’s $120 million worth of "grocery market reach" is 14% bigger than its share of the population.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, SEVEN NETWORK LIMITED, NINE NETWORK AUSTRALIA LIMITED, TEN NETWORK HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX TEN

Which internet providers’ customers pay for their movie and TV downloads?

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 23-Jan-17

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 1.45 million Australians aged 14+ buy movies and TV show downloads online in an average three-month period. These downloaders spent an estimated $A257 million combined in the 12 months to September 2016. Among customers of the top five fixed broadband providers, Dodo’s are the most likely to purchase movies and TV shows for download (10.9 per cent), ahead of those with Telstra (10.4 per cent), Optus (9.4 per cent) and iiNet (8.4 per cent). However, only 6.7 per cent of fixed broadband customers with TPG pay for any downloaded movies or TV shows in an average three months.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, DODO INTERNET PTY LTD, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, IINET LIMITED, TPG TELECOM LIMITED – ASX TPM

Australian Open tennis viewers a different breed to Aussies who play tennis

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 13-Jan-17

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 32.4% of Australians aged 14+ (6.4 million people) watch the Australian Open almost always or occasionally. However, just 45.1% of Australian Open viewers tune in for other tennis broadcasts. The survey, which was carried out in the year to September 2016, also shows that the Australian Open is particularly popular among people aged 50 or older; 36.3% of those aged 50-64 tune in to watch it, as do 46.3% of those aged 65+. In contrast, younger people show a distinct lack of interest in watching the Australian Open on TV, especially 14-17 year-olds (20.2%) and 18-24 year-olds (21.8%). Meanwhile, tennis participation is at its greatest among teenagers aged 14-17 years (16.2%), but starts slipping from 18 years onwards. While 7.0% of Australians overall play tennis, this slips to 4.3% of 50-64 year-olds and heads steadily south from there to 2.9% of those aged 65+.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS