Findings from The Infinite Dial® 2023 Australia, a comprehensive study of audio listening behaviors from Edison Research, show growth in digital audio consumption, including podcasts and online radio, while radio remains strong.
The Australian Infinite Dial is commissioned by major sponsor Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA), with sponsors LiSTNR and Triton Digital®, Results were presented by Edison Research President Larry Rosin and Vice President Nicole Beniamini in a webinar earlier today.
Weekly listening to online AM/FM/DAB+ radio increases 80% year over year. Twenty-seven percent of Australians age 12+ have listened to online AM/FM/DAB+ radio in the last week, up from 15% in 2022.
Monthly and weekly podcast listening hits all-time highs. Forty-three percent of Australians age 12+ have listened to a podcast in the past month; 33% have listened to a podcast in the last week. Weekly listening among Australians is now higher than the U.S. One in ten Australians age 12+ listen to podcasts daily.
AM/FM DAB+ radio grows in-car along with digital sources. Eighty-four percent of Australians age 18+ who have driven or ridden in a car in the last month have listened to AM/FM/DAB+ radio in-car, up from 80% in 2022; 38% have listened to podcasts in-car, up from 32% in 2022, and 20% have listened to online AM/FM stations in-car, up from 16% in 2022.
Australia leads the U.S. when it comes to monthly online audio listening. Eighty-one percent of those age 12+ in Australia listened to online audio in the last month, a higher percentage than the U.S.
CRA Chief Executive Officer Ford Ennals said, “We welcome the 2023 Infinite Dial findings which confirm that audio listening in Australia is booming, led by exponential growth in digital audio listening and the continued growth in radio listening of digital formats including streaming radio and DAB+ radio. Australians are now the world’s biggest listeners of podcasts with 43% listening every month, surpassing the US for the first time. Significantly radio remains young audiences favourite form of audio with 76% listening every month. Radio also continues to lead on the move with 84% of people tuning into radio when they are in the car. “
Radio continues to exhibit strength as AM/FM/DAB+ radio reaches 17 million listeners per week. Seventy-nine percent of Australians 12+ are reached by AM/FM/DAB+ radio weekly, both over-the-air and online.
Dave Cameron, Chief Content Officer at SCA, which includes the LiSTNR digital audio network, a co-sponsor of The Infinite Dial 2023 Australia study said, “The Infinite Dial findings mirror what we are seeing at LiSTNR, with record radio audience numbers and record podcast listeners. Audience behaviour is definitively shifting at pace towards a streaming and on-demand world and the digital audio advertising market is growing at similar levels. It demonstrates the strength, engagement and powerful mobility that audio offers listeners on all platforms.”
Other key findings include:
- Eighty-seven percent of monthly podcast listeners have listened to a podcast at home; 64% have listened in-car
- Weekly podcast listeners listen to an average of five podcast episodes per week
- Twenty-eight percent of Australians 12+ own a smart speaker, which is flat year over year
- Half of Australians age 12-34 (50%) have used TikTok in the last week
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