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%).
Não houve mudanças significativas nos níveis de escuta em todos os grupos de nacionalidade. Os árabes continuam sendo ouvintes intensos e o grupo com maior alcance, com 99%, seguidos pelos ocidentais, com 96%, pelos sul-asiáticos, com 91%, e pelos filipinos e outros asiáticos orientais, com 88%. Os filipinos e outros asiáticos do leste são os únicos grupos que apresentaram uma mudança de mais de 1%.
No primeiro trimestre de 2019, a escuta de rádio entre 20h e 12h permaneceu mais alta do que em qualquer outro horário de pico durante o dia, dando aos anunciantes muito mais oportunidades de atingir seu público-alvo por meio de um planejamento de rádio inteligente.
A comparação geral entre o 1º trimestre de 2018 e o 1º trimestre de 2019 mostra que os níveis de audiência no 1º trimestre de 19 foram ligeiramente inferiores aos do 1º trimestre de 18 (95% de alcance no 1º trimestre de 18 vs. 93% de alcance no 1º trimestre de 19). O tempo médio diário de escuta caiu em apenas 5 minutos.
“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.”
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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
