bbc.com: reach and audience

USA

78 percent of bbc.com users in the USA never use another news site

Reach

  • bbc.com reaches 25 million unique users in the USA and Canada, generating an average of 205 million page views every month1
  • bbc.com mobile reaches over 1.2 million unique users in the USA every month (14% of total traffic2)
  • 4.6 million BBC News App downloads from the USA since launch3

Audience5

  • Average age: 45
  • Male/female: 58% / 42%
  • Affluent: Average household income per month – $80k
  • Influential: Reaches 23% of US business decision-makers
  • Loyal: 78% never use another news site
  • Engaged: Total hours spent on bbc.com in past month – 13 minutes
  • Information hungry: 87% value exploration and discovery
  • Frequent travellers: Took an average 5 flights last year
  • Luxury spenders: Over 72% have bought at least one luxury item in the past year
  • Motor enthusiasts: 58% more likely to keep up with the latest advancement in the automotive world
  • Early adopters: 51% are technologically minded. 69% own a MP3 player, 45% own a smartphone
  • Love sports: 46% consider themselves to be a sports fan

Source

1 Omniture Q1 2013 (January-March) monthly average
2 Omniture Q3 2012 (July-September) monthly average
3 iTunes, accessed through appfigures.com, July 2013
4 Mendelsohn 2012 (59,000,000 / 13,794)

5 comScore Cross-Visiting March 2012 (vs Financial Times, EconomistForbesWall Street Journal, CBS, Washington Post, Fox News, ABC, MSNBC, New York Times and CNN)




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