Covid-19 und seine Auswirkungen auf den Medienkonsumtrend

• TV viewership for news program is going up 25%

• The viewership on Kids audience reaches the highest rating at 16.2 percent

• Vitamin and Supplement products contribute more than IDR20 Billion of total digital ad spending

Jakarta, 23 March 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic has caused change in consumer behavior, including in terms of media consumption.  When President Joko Widodo announced the first case of COVID-19 on March 2, no significant change was seen in the media consumption pattern. News became more intense, people began to closely monitor every developments related to COVID-19 through various media channels including TV. As a result,  Nielsen Television Audience Measurement (TAM) in 11 cities showed an increase in TV viewership over the past week, from an average TV rating of 12 percent on March 11 to 13.8 percent on March 18 or equals to an increase of about 1 Million TV viewers.

TV viewing duration also showed a surge of more than 40 minutes, from an average of 4 hours 48 minutes on March 11 to 5 hours 29 minutes on March 18. Viewers from the Upper Class showed a tendency to stay longer in front of TV since March 14 and the number continued to increase. It was shown by  and increase from the average rating of 11.2 percent on March 11 to 13.7 percent on March 18.

The rise of COVID-19 related news on TV stations during the period of 1-18 March contributed to the increase of viewership for News programs.  The viewership towards news programs increased significantly (+25%), mainly among Upper Class viewers. Viewing increase was also seen in Kid’s programs and Series.

The implementation of stay at home policy to prevent the spread of  COVID-19 since mid of March also impacted the TV viewership. Kid segment (aged 5-9 years old) viewership increased significantly, from an average rating of 12 percent to 15.8 percent on 18 March.  In Jakarta, this young viewer segment even reached the highest rating at 16.2 percent.

The COVID-19 pandemic also has caused health and hygiene issues to be of high concern. Nielsen Advertising Intelligence (Ad Intel) report showed that, throughout the month of March, TV advertisements showed a significant frequency increase for several products, i.e. disease prevention products such as vitamins and supplements, and that of disease treatment such as cough medicine.

“In line with the increase of COVID-19 cases, health issues are becoming the major concern of the public. This drives industry players especially related to vitamins and medicines to catch the opportunity to increase sales of their product, by increasing advertising spots and budgets both in electronic media such as TV,and digital media. “said Hellen Katherina, Executive Director of Media, Nielsen Indonesia.

In early March the Vitamin category aired 300 ad spots per day, while on March 18 the category aired 601 spots per day with the total ad-spend reaching IDR15.3 Billion per day. Similar thing also happened for the Cough Medicine category that aired less than 50 ad spots at the beginning of March, and increased to 180 spots on March 18 with a total ad spending of IDR5.6 Billion.

Apart from on TV, Vitamin and Supplement categories also increased their ad spending on digital media. Based on Nielsen’s monitoring on the Top 200 local websites, both categories poured a total ad expenditure of more than IDR20 Billion in the second week of March, a significant increase compared to only IDR6 Billion in the second week of February.

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ÜBER NIELSEN AD INTEL

Die Informationen zu den Werbeausgaben stammen aus den Daten von Ad Intel , das die indonesischen Werbeaktivitäten beobachtet. Im Jahr 2018 umfasst die Werbebeobachtung 15 nationale Fernsehsender, 98 Zeitungen, 65 Zeitschriften und Tabloids sowie 200 Websites. Die Zahlen zu den Werbeausgaben basieren auf der Bruttopreiskarte, ohne Berücksichtigung von Rabatten, Boni, Werbeaktionen, Paketpreisen usw.

ÜBER NIELSEN TAM

Nielsen TAM in Indonesien hat in 11 Städten Indonesiens (Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Semarang, Surakarta, Surabaya, Denpasar, Medan, Palembang, Makassar und Banjarmasin) die Sehbeteiligung an allen nationalen Fernsehprogrammen bei mehr als 8.000 Personen ab 5 Jahren gemessen. Die Messergebnisse werden in Form von Ratings, Anteilen und Indexwerten angegeben.