According to Nielsen’s Q3 Cross-Platform report, radio continues to play a huge role in the lives of U.S. consumers, especially on commutes. The average American radio listener tunes in to AM/FM radio for over two hours per day, according to the company’s analysis that determined when consumers are engaging with different mediums.
Audio consumption reaches a plateau in the morning hours, peaks around noon and then stays fairly constant through the day before tapering off as people start their evenings and morph into television viewers. Between the morning and early evening hours, roughly two-thirds of audio listening comes from out-of-home tuning.
Overall, more than 90% of Americans listen to radio each week, and those numbers are highest with African Americans (92%) and Hispanics (94%). Additionally, the report noted that people who listen to a lot of traditional radio also spend time with online radio, especially among the millennial generation.
The hyper local nature of audio offers advertisers community-level engagement between content and in-store activity. Often timely, radio spots can catch listeners right before they make their purchase decisions, and an impactful radio spot can inform and influence these decisions.
Overall, the Q3 Cross-Platform report found that over a full year, the average American consumes nearly 60 hours of content each week across different platforms like television, radio, online and mobile. That’s about two-and-a-half days!
In terms of viewing, the report found that in the third quarter of 2013, the average American logged an average of 39 hours with content across screens per week.
Weekly time spent saw quarter-over-quarter gains in few categories. Consumption of timeshifted viewing, watching on a DVD/Blu Ray device, using a game console and watching video on the Internet or a mobile phone all saw increases.
Nielsen seems to ignore Internet Radio. Something wrong with this picture.
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