Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun score increased Readership across the whole week

November 7, 2016roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 7-Nov-16

Roy Morgan Research has released its Print Readership and Cross-Platform Audience results for Australian newspapers for the year to September 2016. Some 8.3 million Australians aged 14+ (42%) read print newspapers in an average week in the 12 months to September 2016, down 3.3% year-on-year. "The Daily Telegraph" is the big winner, with an increase in readers for all weekday and weekend editions, while the "Herald Sun" also scored a rare hat-trick, albeit with smaller gains right across the week. Meanwhile, "The Sydney Morning Herald" lost print readers across the week, while "The Age" recorded a fall in readership of weekday editions but a rise in readership of the Saturday and Sunday editions. "The Sydney Morning Herald" remains Australia’s most-read masthead cross-platform, reaching a combined audience of 4,187,000 in an average week, including a net 1,152,000 print readers and 3,609,000 digital readers.

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

Newspaper paywall successes vindicate Murdoch’s strategy

October 24, 2016roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Darren Davidson
The Australian – Page: 25 : 24-Oct-16

The Australian has gained more than 80,000 paid digital subscribers since its website was paywalled five years ago. The News Corp Australia flagship’s CEO Nicholas Gray says the newspaper will seek to lift this to 100,000 paid subscribers in 2017. Meanwhile, editor-in-chief Paul Whittaker says many news websites are now looking to adopt the paywall model. He adds that the company’s digital products complement its traditional print newspapers and allow it to produce editions that are tailored for specific digital devices.

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NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, NEWS CORPORATION – ASX NWS, GUARDIAN MEDIA GROUP PLC, DAILY MAIL AND GENERAL TRUST PLC, LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION

Hywood goes it alone on digital subscription

August 11, 2016roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Jake Mitchell
The Australian – Page: 23 : 11-Aug-16

Fairfax Media will no longer quote the Audited Media Association of Australia’s data on digital newspaper subscriptions in its financial reports, after questioning the accuracy of the figures. The media group will instead publish its own digital subscription data in ASX releases. The AMA has reported that subscriptions to the digital edition of "The Age" fell by 6.3 per cent in the March 2016 quarter and 3.4 per cent in the year to March, while "Sydney Morning Herald" digital subscriptions grew by 0.9 per cent in the year to March.

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FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ, AUDITED MEDIA ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED

Roy Morgan Newspaper Print Readership and Cross-Platform Audiences for June 2016

August 5, 2016roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 5-Aug-16

Roy Morgan Research has released its Print Readership and seven-day Cross-Platform Audience results for Australian newspapers for the year to June 2016. The "Herald Sun" remains the most-read weekday newspaper in print (down 2.1 per cent to 852,000), while "The Daily Telegraph" scored the biggest gain in print readers, up 25,000 (4.0 per cent) to 650,000 readers per average Monday to Friday issue. "The Saturday Paper" is living up to its name, with the title’s first year-on-year figures now showing growth of 13.5 per cent to 118,000 readers per average issue, while Sunday print readership dipped below 4.5 million Australians nationally (down 6.8 per cent). "The Sydney Morning Herald" remains Australia’s most-read masthead across all platforms, reaching a combined audience of 4,081,000 in an average week, including a net 1,196,000 print readers and 3,462,000 digital readers.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED

Roy Morgan Newspaper Print Readership and Cross-Platform Audience Results for December 2015

February 5, 2016roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 4-Feb-16

Roy Morgan Research has released its Print Readership and seven-day Cross-Platform Audience results for Australian newspapers for the year to December 2015. Readership of the weekday edition of "The Age" has fallen by 16.1 per cent, while readership of the Saturday and Sunday editions fell by 15.4 per cent and 19 per cent respectively. However, readership of the weekend edition of "The Australian Financial Review" increased by 25.2 per cent. "Smart Investor" had the highest growth in readership of newspaper inserted magazines. Meanwhile, 10 of the 14 major mastheads expanded their digital reach in 2015, as more Australians accessed newspaper content via website or app. Roy Morgan Research CEO Michele Levine says Ro Morgan Audiences is a game-changing new tool that can measure and evaluate unique digital audiences across devices, and provide owners and advertisers with twice-daily updates on who has been reached, how many times, via which of their devices.

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Roy Morgan Newspaper Print Readership and Cross-Platform Audience Results for September 2015

November 6, 2015roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 5-Nov-15

Roy Morgan Research has released its Print Readership and seven-day Cross-Platform Audience results for Australian newspapers for the year to September 2015. Across print and digital formats, the country’s metro newspapers continued to reach 11.9 million Australians aged 14+ in an average week, unchanged from the previous year. The "Australian Financial Review" scored the largest increase in cross-platform audience. Driven by a 20.7 per cent increase in the average number of Australians who access the masthead by website or app, the AFR’s total net weekly audience grew by nine per cent to 760,000.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, NEWS CORPORATION – ASX NWS, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ

Paywalled news sites head off foreign brigade

August 17, 2015roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Darren Davidson
The Australian – Page: 25 : 17-Aug-15

New figures from Nielsen suggest that international online portals are having problems with attracting Australian readers. Nielsen’s "Ratings by Unique Audience" report for July 2015 shows that "The Guardian" managed to increase its year-on-year unique audience by only two per cent. "The Daily Telegraph" and BBC increased their audiences by 3.8 per cent and four per cent respectively. Figures compiled by "The Australian" show that comprehensive paywall sites are more successful in growing their audiences, with "The Australian" recording a 10.6 per cent rise in unique visitors in the past 12 months.

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NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH INCORPORATED, NEWS CORPORATION – ASX NWS, BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ, THE HUFFINGTON POST

Roy Morgan Newspaper Readership and Cross-Platform Audience Results for June 2015

August 7, 2015roymorgansocial Leave a comment

Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 6-Aug-15

Roy Morgan Research has released its Print Readership and seven-day Cross-Platform Audience results for Australian newspapers for the year to June 2015. Readership of Print Monday to Friday editions have declined by 11.3 per cent overall in the total number of readers for the country’s major metropolitan papers. Meanwhile, there was an overall readership decline of 8.8 per cent for Saturday editions, while readership of Sunday newspapers fell by 7.1 per cent. "The Sunday Times" recorded the largest cross-platform audience growth overall, up 5.5 per cent to 901,000.