· Time per person on social networking via a smartphone up 1 hour
· News.com.au retained top spot in the News rankings
· International news entities increased unique audiences
· BBC increased unique audience by 16%
Sydney, Australia – 23 June 2017: More than 90% of Australians aged 18+ engaged with social networking content via a smartphone during May 2017, according to latest data released today by Nielsen.
12.7 million Australians 18+ accessed a social networking site or app via a smartphone device during the month and the average time per person increased by one hour during May 2017 compared to the previous month.
TOP 5 BY TOTAL UNIQUE AUDIENCE, SOCIAL NETWORKING BRANDS, MAY 2017
Name |
Unique Audience (000) |
Page Views Per Person |
Sessions Per Person |
Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss) |
16,193 |
116 |
96 |
14:29:16 |
|
8,573 |
5 |
29 |
02:29:28 |
|
7,038 |
6 |
7 |
00:16:34 |
|
6,161 |
7 |
12 |
01:08:32 |
|
6,106 |
4 |
7 |
00:46:16 |
Source: Nielsen Digital Ratings (Monthly) – May 2017
CURRENT EVENTS AND GLOBAL NEWS
The current events and global news sub-category was steady overall with some movement in the top ten rankings. Five out of the top ten increased their unique audience numbers. BBC saw a large jump in unique audience to 2.6 million (+16%) to move to seventh place, up three spots.
Major international news events during May contributed to notable increases in unique audiences to many of the international news entities.
News.com.au retained top position in with a unique audience of 5.8 million (-4%). Nine.com.au moved up from third to second place with a unique audience of 4.7 million (0.6%) and ABC News websites moved to third spot (4.6 million, -6%).
Smh.com.au (3.8 million, -7%), Daily Mail Australia (3.1 million, +5%) and The Guardian (2.9 million, +0.5%) retained their fourth, fifth and sixth positions respectively.
Yahoo 7 News moved to eighth (2.5 million, -11%), The Daily Telegraph retained their ninth position (2.4 million, +3%) and the Herald Sun moved to tenth (2.3 million, -6%).
TOP 10 BY UNIQUE AUDIENCE, CURRENT EVENTS & GLOBAL NEWS SUBCATEGORY, MAY 2017
Name |
Unique Audience (000) |
Page Views Per Person |
Sessions Per Person |
Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss) |
news.com.au |
5,783 |
49 |
14 |
01:03:01 |
nine.com.au |
4,727 |
38 |
13 |
01:10:26 |
ABC News Websites |
4,613 |
22 |
9 |
00:28:14 |
smh.com.au |
3,804 |
32 |
12 |
00:49:16 |
Daily Mail Australia |
3,064 |
21 |
12 |
00:35:17 |
The Guardian |
2,926 |
14 |
9 |
00:31:21 |
BBC |
2,598 |
23 |
11 |
01:01:10 |
Yahoo7 News Websites |
2,512 |
14 |
10 |
00:18:41 |
The Daily Telegraph |
2,422 |
13 |
8 |
00:27:51 |
Herald Sun |
2,316 |
20 |
10 |
00:36:13 |
Source: Nielsen Digital Ratings (Monthly) May 2017
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