ABC celebrates 12 months as Australia’s #1 digital live streaming network
The ABC has finished 2024 as the unchallenged number 1 Digital Live Streaming network in Australia according to GfK survey 8 released today.
The ABC has held the title for every survey this year and since Survey 3 2023 when it became a standalone GfK measure.
The ABC has a 25.2% share of live streaming in the most recent survey with much of it coming from audiences on ABC listen.
Our ABC listen summer listening schedule is already underway with a huge season of cricket kicking off with the Australia v India test in Perth in November. The test drew 548,000 stream starts across all ABC platforms.
The ABC has every match from every major cricket code, all summer live and add free on ABC listen.
Elsewhere in GfK Survey 8, momentum is building for the triple j Hottest 100 which launched earlier this week. In the most recent survey, triple j was up across both share and reach driven by the 18-39 year olds.
Within 24 hours of voting opening on Tuesday, more than 200,000 votes had already been counted for the legendary summer countdown.
The countdown will be held on Saturday 25 January.
Audiences can head to the triple j website or the triple j app and follow the signs to the Hottest 100 voting page. Voting closes - 5pm AEDT, Monday 20 January.
ABC radio reaches 5,358,000** Australians every week across our local, national and digital audio output.
** Source: All figures based on GfK Survey 8 24hr data unless otherwise stated.*
**Source: GfK 5 City; 24hrs; Mon-Fri. ABC inc. DAB+. 2024 ytd = s1-s8. Reach; GfK Regional (Gold Coast, Newcastle and Canberra); 24hrs; Mon-Fri; ABC inc.DAB+. Survey 1-3. Reach; Xtra Insights. Reach; Markets surveyed in the last 3yrs as of 12/12/24.
SCA DOMINATES THE AUDIENCE THAT MATTERS – WINNING 25-54 FOR 2024
SCA rounds out 2024 winning the ‘Audience that Matters’, continuing its record-breaking run of 28 consecutive wins^ of the key 25-54 buying demographic, in today’s GfK Radio360 Metro Survey #8 2024 results. SCA reaches more Australians every week than any other network, with more than 8.6 million listeners*, and remains the undisputed #1 25-54 radio network*. In addition, SCA’s Hit Network was again #1 for women 25-54 (third survey in a row), while the Triple M network was #1 for men 25-54 (16 surveys in a row).
SCA’s Hit and Triple M metro station wins for Survey 8 include:
#1 Brisbane Station and #1 Breakfast show – B105 and Stav, Abby & Matt
#1 Adelaide Station and #1 Breakfast show – Triple M Adelaide’s Roo, Ditts & Loz
#1 and #2 Brisbane duopoly – B105 and Triple M Brisbane
#2 Melbourne FM Breakfast show – The Fox’s Fifi, Fev & Nick
SCA Chief Content Officer, Dave Cameron, said: “Today SCA celebrates outstanding results, with B105 marking a year of undefeated leadership followed closely by Triple M to deliver an incredible duopoly result in Brisbane. B105’s Stav, Abby & Matt have dominated Brisbane Breakfast, having also spent all of 2024 on top.
“We’re excited to see Triple M return as Adelaide’s Number one station, powered by Roo, Ditts & Loz with an extraordinary run of success – 18 consecutive FM breakfast wins.
“In Melbourne, The Fox’s Fifi, Fev & Nick have concluded an amazingly consistent and strong 2024, finishing the year as the Number two breakfast show. In what has been a year where Melbourne listeners have rejected interstate blow-ins and screamed that local shows with local content, from locally loved teams like Fifi, Fev & Nick, are what they want. While Triple M’s JB & Billy have achieved the highest Drive result since 2006, which puts them in a great position to extend their show to SA and WA next year.
“It’s a pleasing day to see a strong final result from Triple M Sydney’s Mick & MG, ahead of Mick Molloy’s return to Melbourne to take up the challenge of delivering even more locally loved content at breakfast on Triple M.
“This year has shown that breakfast localism is everything to listeners. In 2025 we will remain steadfast in our approach to continuing to deliver local Breakfast shows in all of our metro markets, which includes building six brand new breakfast shows focusing on local content for our 25-54 ‘audience that matters’ – a position SCA has again dominated over our competitors.”
SCA Chief Commercial Officer, Seb Rennie, said: “SCA continues to be the undisputed home of the 25-54 demographic, and we are proud to be the most listened to network in Australia, reaching a greater audience than any other network.
“With our SCA-ACE combined represented metro stations, the metro 25-54 audience share is 35.9%, extending our lead ahead of our nearest commercial competition by 7.5 share points.
“Our commitment to providing our advertising partners with innovative audio solutions, connecting with the right audiences and driving results across SCA’s broadcast and digital audio platforms, is unwavering. We congratulate our content teams who continue to deliver audio content that keeps our loyal audiences growing and engaged for longer.”
Source: *GfK Radio 360 Metro Survey #8 2024. GfK Gold Coast, Newcastle, Canberra Survey #3 2024. Other regional radio markets surveyed to 12/12/2024. P10+/P25-54, Mon-Sun ROS, Market Share/Cume Reach (000’s).
GfK Radio 360 Metro Survey #8 2024. P10+.P25-54/M25-54/F25-54, Mon-Sun ROS/Mon-Fri 05.30-09.00/Mon-Fri 06.00-09.00/Mon-Fri 15.00-18.00/Mon-Fri 16.00-19.00. Total Radio. Market Share/Commercial Share/Cume Reach. ^ 28 consecutive #1 Surveys (Survey #5 2021)
Then 4BC “programmer” Max Dudley wrote off that happening.
Very unhappy and unpleasant time for ‘Breenie’ towards the end, being shoved to Drive (Scott Emerson gone altogether for that) and not receiving any love overall from Nine Radio.
Also passed over for local mornings.
Neil Breen by far was the superior choice for mornings. A former newspaper editor, not an autocue reader as Bill McDonald long has been.
By the time covid concluded, his family weren’t moving, children growing up and more entrenched in Sydney. Wife Lizzie a successful publisher there too.
Breen seems settled and happy being back in Sydney, doing what’s asked of him on radio and TV.
If Breen’s going back to radio, it’s on 2GB, not 4BC.