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Radio Edges TV 18-49!!!

 
Monday, March 20, 2023
 
Duncan Stewart, Director of Research, Technology, Media & Telecommunications at Deloitte made a surprising prediction, four years ago. He forecast that by 2025, AM/FM radio audiences would overtake TV among 18-34s. His prediction went one gigantic step further. AM/FM radio just defeated TV in persons 18-49 with an average audience and weekly reach +3% greater. No one expected that!!!...
 
TV reach among persons 18-49 has dropped -28% and time spent viewing eroded -56%. Since 2018, Nielsen's Total Audience Report reveals the 18-49 weekly reach of live and time-shifted TV has dropped -28%. Over the same period, TV's daily time spent is down -56%, an hour and a half loss...
 
Cord cutting is a major driver of TV's audience collapse. The MRI Simmons January 2023 "How Americans Watch TV" report reveals 51% have cut the cord...
 
Streaming is now TV: Americans say streaming has replaced traditional TV. A Hub Entertainment study finds from 2016 to 2022, those who said streaming was "the first thing you turn on when you watch" doubled from 20% to 39%. The proportion who said the first thing they turned on is "live from pay TV" dropped from 48% to 28%...
 
While a huge number of Americans have abandoned traditional TV for streaming, AM/FM radio remains the dominant audio platform. According to Edison Research's Q4 2022 "Share Of Ear," AM/FM radio has a massive 73% share of US ad-supported audio...
 
AM/FM radio makes TV better: J&J's pharma brand Tremfya realizes a +45% reach increase by adding AM/FM radio to the media plan...
 
Shifting 20% of GoodRx's TV budget to AM/FM radio would generate a +31% increase in reach...
 
According to Edison Weekly Insights, AM/FM radio is doing a pretty good job on the radio side, as well. Edison reports AM/FM radio is the #1 Ad-Supported Audio Source for all ages in the US. Listeners age 13+ in the US spend 59% of their daily, ad-supported audio time with AM/FM radio, more time than with all other ad-supported audio sources combined, including YouTube, podcasts, and ad-supported streaming...
 
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