{"id":2069,"date":"2025-11-26T07:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:31:40","slug":"breaking-news-12-4-million-australians-continue-to-listen-to-commercial-radio-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/breaking-news-12-4-million-australians-continue-to-listen-to-commercial-radio-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: 12.4 MILLION AUSTRALIANS CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO COMMERCIAL RADIO WEEKLY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) has welcomed the latest GfK Survey 7, 2025<\/strong> results, with commercial radio reaching 12.4 million <\/strong>weekly listeners, up 139,000 year-on-year (YOY)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breakfast <\/strong>delivered exceptional growth, increasing by 172,000 listeners YOY <\/strong>to 8.8 million<\/strong>, reaffirming its role as a key daypart and contributing significantly to commercial radio\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The critical 25\u201354-year-old<\/strong> demographic also showed strong momentum, growing by 84,000<\/strong> listeners YOY to 6.1 million<\/strong>, while the 40-64<\/strong> age group added <\/strong>49,000 listeners<\/strong> to reach 4.3 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In-car listening<\/strong> continued to be an important audience habit for millions of Australians with listeners growing by 188,000 YOY to 10.2 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital adoption continues to grow<\/strong>, with 3.5 million Australians streaming commercial radio weekly, up 80,000 YOY<\/strong>. Breakfast streaming audiences<\/strong> reached 1.3 million with an additional 19,000 listeners YOY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCommercial radio offers something increasingly rare in a fragmented media landscape: engaged audience attention, proven ROI, and the certainty that your investment supports Australian communities, jobs and critical infrastructure,\u201d said Lizzie Young, CEO of CRA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor advertisers looking for the best media returns in 2026 the power of audio cannot be underestimated – these numbers demonstrate commercial radio\u2019s unique ability to consistently connect with audiences anytime and anywhere, and drive results for brands,\u201d continued Young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the full 2026 survey dates head here: <\/strong>https:\/\/cra.au\/metro-ratings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For historical data and the 2025 metro survey schedule, visit: https:\/\/cra.au\/metro-ratings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:<\/strong> GfK Radio 360 Ratings, SMBAP S7 2025, compared to S7 2024, All people 10+, Mon-Sun 12mn-12mn, Cume (000’s), unless otherwise stated. All numbers refer to co<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) has welcomed the latest GfK Survey 7, 2025 results, with commercial radio reaching 12.4 million weekly listeners, up 139,000 year-on-year (YOY). Breakfast delivered exceptional growth, increasing by 172,000 listeners YOY to 8.8 million, reaffirming its role as a key daypart and contributing significantly to commercial radio\u2019s growth. The critical 25\u201354-year-old demographic also showed strong momentum, growing by 84,000 listeners YOY to 6.1 million, while … Continue reading “BREAKING NEWS: 12.4 MILLION AUSTRALIANS CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO COMMERCIAL RADIO WEEKLY”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}