10yr Trends in Media Usage

Ten year trends in newspaper and other media usage, including commercial TV, radio, magazines, cinema and internet.

Key finding: media usage on increase

  • Media usage in general, including newspapers, has increased over the last ten years. Despite increasing internet usage, more people read a newspaper each week than are using the internet each month.
  • Newspaper reading has been resilient as the media has fragmented over the last ten years 
  • Newspaper sales have been resilient as the media has fragmented over the last ten years

Source: Roy Morgan Single Source


10-Year Trends in Media Usage (753k, PowerPoint (.ppt) format)

Chart mapping media usage over the past decade. Last updated for quater ending June 2011.