CONSUMER BEHAVIOR – AUSTRALIA

Consumer spending for the Spring Racing Carnival to reach $1.6 billion

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 28-Oct-22

New research from the Australian Retailers Association in collaboration with Roy Morgan shows that over 1.5 million people plan to attend a Spring Racing Carnival event trackside this year. More than 1.9 million Australians plan to attend events not on the track, such as in restaurants or other hospitality venues. People celebrating the Spring Racing Carnival will spend an average amount of $1,076 on themselves, totalling $1.6 billion in spending. Meanwhile, 52% of people say they are spending the same or more than they did last year on their Spring Racing Carnival celebrations. A new dress or suit is the most common consumer purchase (mentioned by 68% of people planning to attend a Spring Racing Carnival event), followed by a hat/fascinator (35%), a pair of shoes (31%) and jewellery (26%). The ARA-Roy Morgan Snap SMS survey was conducted with an Australia-wide cross-section of 1,694 Australians aged 18+ on Friday September 30 to Tuesday October 4.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN RETAILERS ASSOCIATION

Solar Energy Systems on households have more than doubled since 2018 – now at nearly a third of all households (32.3%)

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 19-Oct-22

The latest Roy Morgan research shows that over 3.2 million Australian households (32.3% of all households) owned a Solar Energy System in the year to June 2022, up from only 1.32 million (14%) in the year to June 2018. There were big increases in ownership of Solar Energy Systems in 2019 and 2020, although growth has levelled off over the last two years as the penetration of Solar Energy Systems approached one-third of all households. On a State-by-State basis there are more households in NSW (885,000) with Solar Energy Systems than anywhere else followed by Queensland (756,000), Victoria (728,000), WA (439,000) and SA (332,000). SA and WA have the highest rates of Solar Energy System penetration – over 40% of households. The ownership rates are significantly lower in South-Eastern Australia with under a third of households in Tasmania (30.2%), Victoria (27.7%) and New South Wales (26.6%) owning Solar Energy Systems. A primary reason which explains the lower rates of households with Solar Energy Systems in NSW and Victoria is the higher density living and far higher number (and proportion) of apartments, flats, units, semi-detached terraces and townhouses.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

October rate raise could be final straw for lower income spenders

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Original article by Emma Koehn
Brisbane Times – Page: Online : 4-Oct-22

Low-income households will come under further pressure if the Reserve Bank of Australia increases the cash rate by another 50 basis points on Tuesday. The latest quarterly consumer survey from UBS shows that low income earners have an "outright negative" financial outlook, although wealthy Australians are expected to keep spending. Australian Retailers Association CEO Paul Zahra notes that the full impact of the recent interest rate increases have yet to flow through the economy, adding that retail sales could soften in coming months.

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RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN RETAILERS ASSOCIATION

Australian alcohol consumption declines from pandemic highs of 2021, but consumption of RTDs at a record high

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 17-Aug-22

New data from Roy Morgan’s Alcohol Consumption Report shows that 13,603,000 Australians (67.9%) aged 18+ consumed alcohol in an average four-week period in the year to June 2022, down 1.8% from a pandemic high of 13,908,000 (69.7%) a year earlier. The standout alcoholic beverage over the last year as we emerged from the pandemic lockdowns of 2020-21 has been Ready-to-drinks (RTDs); some 3,349,000 Australians (16.7%) consumed RTDs in the year to June, an increase of 3.2% points (+680,000). The most popular alcohol is still wine, but the number of Australians drinking wine fell to 8,938,000 (44.6%), a decrease of 1.7% points (-297,000) from a year ago. Beer has also lost ground from its pandemic highs with 6,666,000 Australians (33.3%) now drinking beer, down 2.3% points (-428,000) on a year ago. Spirits are clearly the third favourite type of alcohol with 6,083,000 Australians (30.4%) now drinking spirits, down 2.8% points (-538,000) on mid-2021. The findings are from the Roy Morgan Single Source survey, Australia’s most trusted and comprehensive consumer survey, derived from in-depth interviews with over 60,000 Australians each year.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Meal delivery services now used by over 7 million Australians after strong growth during the pandemic

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 10-Aug-22

New research from Roy Morgan shows that over 7 million Australians aged 14+ (33.4%) now use a meal delivery service in an average three months, up from 3.6 million (16.9%) in early 2020. Uber Eats is again the clear market leader used by 3.5 million Australians, up from 2.3 million in early 2020. The use of meal delivery services grew rapidly over the last two years of extended lockdowns around much of the country – and especially in the two largest States of New South Wales and Victoria. A look at the different generations shows that Millennials (born 1976-1990) and now aged from 31-46 years old, are the most likely to use a meal delivery service. Now 45.8% of Millennials use a meal delivery service in an average three months, more than doubling their usage since early 2020 (+24% points). Just behind is Generation Z (born 1991-2008), with 43% (up 17% points from early 2020) now using meal delivery services in an average three months. Some 29.6% of people in Generation X now use meal delivery services, more than doubling from 14.4% in early 2020. The use of meal delivery services drops off sharply in the older generations aged over 60. Under one-in-six Baby Boomers (15.9%, up 8.5% points from early 2020) and only 12.3% (up 7.4% points) of Pre-Boomers used one of the services.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Australian streaming apps from TV brands chip away at Netflix dominance

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Original article by Josh Taylor
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 3-Aug-22

Data from Sensor Tower shows that the Disney+ app was downloaded almost two million times in Australia during the last 12 months. Disney+ retained its status as the top downloaded entertainment app in Australia, ahead of Amazon, TikTok and Netflix. The streaming apps of local companies Nine, the ABC, Seven and Stan were also among the 10 most-downloaded apps during the last year. Sensor Tower’s data is based on the number of new downloads from the Apple and Android stores. Netflix still dominates Australia’s streaming video sector; research by Roy Morgan in February found that Netflix has more than 12 million subscribers nationwide.

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SENSOR TOWER, DISNEY+, AMAZON PRIME VIDEO, TIKTOK, NETFLIX INCORPORATED, NINE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX NEC, SEVEN WEST MEDIA LIMITED – ASX SWM, AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, STAN ENTERTAINMENT PTY LTD, ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Chinese-made clothes, electrical goods, mobile phones, footwear, and sporting goods lose favour among Australians

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 22-Jun-22

New research by Roy Morgan shows that Australians are less likely than pre-pandemic to buy products across a wide range of industries if they know the product is ‘Made in China’. The largest declines were for clothes, electrical goods, mobile phones, footwear and sporting goods, with preference for these products falling between 2%-6% points during the pandemic years of 2020-21. Clothes are still the most ‘popular’ product for Australians that is ‘Made in China’. However, in March 2022 only 25% of Australians said they would be more likely to buy clothes if they knew the clothes were ‘Made in China’, down 4% points from March 2020. The same trend was evident for Chinese-made electrical goods, with 23% (down 5% points from 2020) of Australians saying they’d be more likely to buy the product if they knew it was ‘Made in China’, mobile phones on 21% (down 6%), footwear on 17% (down 5%) and sporting goods on 15% (down 2%). These results are from the Roy Morgan Single Source survey, derived from comprehensive in-depth interviews with over 1,000 Australians each week and around 60,000 Australians per year.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Eyeballs on the march as free-to-air TV slumps

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Original article by James Madden, Sophie Elsworth
The Australian – Page: 15 & 23 : 30-May-22

Analysis of ratings data from OzTAM highlights the decline of free-to-air television in Australia. SBS has increased its audience by 15 per cent since 2012, but viewership of the other FTA broadcasters has declined. This decline is particularly acute in the breakfast timeslot; the average weekday metropolitan audience of Seven Network’s ‘Sunrise’ was 260,650 in 2021, compared with 364,445 in 2012, while the average audience of Nine’s ‘Today’ has fallen from 334,954 to just 219,032. The increasingly crowded streaming market has accelerated the decline of FTA in recent years. However, Ben Willee of Spinach Advertising says TV is still a powerful medium for reaching audiences.

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OZTAM PTY LTD, SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE (SBS), SEVEN NETWORK LIMITED, NINE NETWORK AUSTRALIA LIMITED, SPINACH ADVERTISING PTY LTD

Mums to be spoiled on Mother’s Day with $754 million to be spent on gifts

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 27-Apr-22

Research from the Australian Retailers Association in collaboration with Roy Morgan shows that Australians are set to spend $754 million on Mother’s Day gifts. People who plan on buying a gift will spend an average of $80, with 90% planning to spend the same or more than they did last year. Flowers are set to be the most popular gift, mentioned by 34% of Australians surveyed, followed by alcohol and food (23%) and clothing, shoes and sleepwear (mentioned by 11% of Australians). Some 24% of Australians will be purchasing gifts for people who aren’t their birth mother, including mothers-in-law, wives or partners and other family members. The ARA-Roy Morgan Snap SMS survey was conducted with an Australian-wide cross-section of 1,162 Australians aged 18+ on Tuesday April 12 – Wednesday April 13.

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AUSTRALIAN RETAILERS ASSOCIATION, ROY MORGAN LIMITED

7.5 million Australians are now watching Broadcast Video on Demand such as 7plus, 9Now, 10 Play and ABC iView

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 23-Feb-22

New data from Roy Morgan shows that 7.5 million Australians now watch ‘Broadcast Video on Demand’ (BVOD) services. Viewership of BVOD services grew strongly during the early stages of the pandemic, with an increase of around 2.1 million viewers (+39.5%) in 2020 compared to the December 2019 quarter. This level of growth was always going to be hard to maintain and over the last year an additional 130,000 viewers streamed BVOD services, an increase of 1.8% on 2020, for a total of over 7.5 million viewers (35.5%). ABC iView continues to be the clear market leader with 4.13 million viewers in an average four weeks, up 985,000 (+31.3%) from two years ago, although down 633,000 (-13.3%) on a year ago. SBS On Demand remains in second place and is now viewed by 2.86 million Australians representing an increase of 217,000 (+8.2%) from two years ago although down 653,000 (-18.6%) from a year ago. The leader of the three traditional commercial broadcasters is the Seven Network’s 7plus which is now viewed by 2.6 million Australians, an increase of 727,000 (+38.8%) from a year ago. Close behind are the Nine Entertainment Company’s 9Now which is viewed by 2.38 million Australians, up 318,000 (+15.4%) on a year ago and Network 10’s 10 Play, now viewed by 1.7 million Australians, up 358,000 (+26.7%). This new data comes from Roy Morgan Single Source, Australia’s most comprehensive consumer survey, derived from in-depth interviews with over 60,000 Australians each year.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, SPECIAL BROADCASTING SERVICE (SBS), NINE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX NEC, SEVEN NETWORK LIMITED, TEN NETWORK HOLDINGS LIMITED