Dubai, UAE – June 11, 2019 – According to Nielsen, a global measurement and data analytics company, 93% of the total UAE population aged 10 and above tuned into radio every week in the first quarter of 2019, which is on par with tune-in during the previous quarter. UAE residents and nationals listened to 60 million hours of radio in this period. The first-quarter measurement covers all radio listening from 2nd January 2019 to 31st March 2019.
Nielsen’s UAE Radio Audience Measurement measures listenership of 52 radio stations across the country among all individuals aged 10+. While Q4 2018 results showed a significant increase in listenership from the hot summer months of Q3 2018, data from the first quarter of this year shows consistency on the overall listenership. Listenership in Dubai and Northern Emirates continued to grow at 2% and 4%, respectively. Abu Dhabi remained the strongest of all the Emirates in the first quarter of 2019, with almost universal reach—99.8%—of Abu Dhabi residents listening to radio in an average week. In Dubai, 92% of residents listen in an average week, and 88% in Northern Emirates. Sharjah is the only Emirate that saw a decline in reach from the previous quarter (86% vs. 91.8%).
Bei den Hörerzahlen aller Nationalitätengruppen gab es keine signifikanten Verschiebungen. Araber sind nach wie vor starke Hörer und erreichen mit 99 % die meisten Hörer, gefolgt von Westlern mit 96 %, Südasiaten mit 91 % und Filipinos und anderen Ostasiaten mit 88 %. Filipinos und andere Ostasiaten sind die einzigen Gruppen, die eine Veränderung von mehr als 1 % verzeichneten.
Im 1. Quartal 2019 war die Radiohörerschaft zwischen 20.00 und 12.00 Uhr weiterhin höher als zu den anderen Spitzenzeiten des Tages, was Werbetreibenden viele weitere Möglichkeiten bietet, ihre Zielgruppe durch intelligente Radioplanung zu erreichen.
Der Gesamtvergleich zwischen Q1 2018 und Q1 2019 zeigt, dass die Hörerschaft in Q1'19 etwas geringer war als in Q1'18 (95% Reichweite in Q1 18 vs. 93% Reichweite in Q1 19). Die durchschnittliche tägliche Hördauer ist um nur 5 Minuten gesunken.
“Businesses in the UAE have had a challenging start to 2019, with reports of a difficult outlook ahead this year. The impact of this in the long term is still unknown, but our UAE RAM data for Quarter 1 has some indicators for the radio industry, says Sarah Messer, Director of Media for Nielsen MENA. The impact of this in the long term is still unknown, but our UAE RAM data for Quarter 1 has some indicators for the radio industry, says Sarah Messer, Director of Media for Nielsen MENA.
Whilst the UAE has unfortunately seen a couple of radio stations closing down in Q1, what we see in audience listening habits is people are still tuning in, in large numbers every week. Q1 19 audience reach is at a similar high level to the previous quarter (Q4 18) and year on year listening levels seen in Q1 2018. For advertisers this means they can still reach vast numbers of UAE residents effectively by targeting them in key radio listening day parts using the RAM detailed audience demographics, and maximise the impact of their radio spends.”
Bitte wenden Sie sich an das Team von Nielsen Media, wenn Sie Hilfe bei der optimalen Nutzung der RAM-Daten aus den VAE für Ihr Audience Targeting und Ihre Radioplanung benötigen: uae.radio@nielsen.com
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ABOUT UAE RADIO AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT (RAM)UAE RAM starts with a strong foundation of a continuous Establishment Survey, which now consists of 23,920 face to face interviews across all seven emirates in the UAE. The Establishment Survey enables Nielsen to determine population dynamics and ensure its collection of radio data is balanced and representative. A ‘hybrid diary’ methodology is used for the research, introducing both a traditional paper diary and an innovative electronic diary to respondents, to measure robust information on radio listening. Every quarter, 2,100 people aged 10 and above, representing all nationalities and languages across the emirates are asked to record their radio listening activities for seven consecutive days. They record their listening in 15-minute time-slots for the entire week in their chosen diary format.Nielsen’s UAE RAM data covers a range of demographic and lifestyle insights which can be combined with all the radio-listening behaviour metrics captured, including household demography, program ranking, time spent listening, device used for listening, place of listening, ebb and flow reports and station loyalty. For more information on UAE RAM, visit www.nielsen.com/uae-ram
