National Readership Survey (NRS) - The NRS provide the vast majority of Britain's audience research in terms of print and digital advertising. Their surveys contain over 250 of the UK's magazines and newspapers, which demonstrates the size of their research.
The NRS' website include a variety of different newspapers that they've studied and analysed in great detail. For example, on one part of their website, they list general magazines from specific demographics; this particular example is for both genders of adult ages 15-34 that live specifically in Greater London and Scotland. It also includes a list of PDF files that document their findings in a table format. The PDF files list their findings from the past 12 months of the current month (so their findings would date back to September 2014 onwards).
Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) - BARB are an organisation that complies audience measurements and televisions ratings in and around Britain. They are jointly owned by the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. BARB display their information is a similar way to how the NRS do, only they feature their information in a drop down list; for example they have records of the most viewed shows from every channel in every month on specific dates. They are listed in order of how many viewers they got when they were watched on their original broadcast date.
Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) - ABC provide an independent figure verification of circulation figures to help facilitate the buying and selling of advertising space of Britain's newspapers. ABC are much more secure with their reports than other websites, as to access their reports you have to create an account and then subscribe to ABC. Without a subscription, you cannot access any of their reports, and you must be signed in with a corporate email address.
Radio Joint Audience Research Limited (RAJAR) - RAJAR are used to operate a single audience measurement system for Britain's radio industry. RAJAR's website is set out much easier than some of the other websites, and their quarterly analysis of radio listeners is fairly easy to access. For example; their latest report shows that on average listeners of radio listen to around 21.7 hours of live radio per week.
Office of Communications (OFCOM) - OFCOM are the goverment-approved competition authority who deal with the broadcasting and telecommunications industries of Britain. OFCOM's website seems to be a bit more old fashioned than some of the other websites, but the facts and figures are still fairly easy to locate. They analysis different types of figures, which include analysing the average time that people spend on laptops browsing the internet to the proportion of adults in Britain that own broadband.
Bibliography
Web link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasters%27_Audience_Research_Board [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link: http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-10 [[Acessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audit_Bureau_of_Circulations_(UK) [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link: http://www.abc.org.uk/InSufficient-Access-Rights/ [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAJAR [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link: http://www.rajar.co.uk/ [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofcom [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link: http://media.ofcom.org.uk/facts/ [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link:
http://www.nrs.co.uk/latest-results/nrs-padd-results/magazines-nrspaddresults/ [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
The NRS' website include a variety of different newspapers that they've studied and analysed in great detail. For example, on one part of their website, they list general magazines from specific demographics; this particular example is for both genders of adult ages 15-34 that live specifically in Greater London and Scotland. It also includes a list of PDF files that document their findings in a table format. The PDF files list their findings from the past 12 months of the current month (so their findings would date back to September 2014 onwards).
Broadcasters' Audience Research Board (BARB) - BARB are an organisation that complies audience measurements and televisions ratings in and around Britain. They are jointly owned by the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. BARB display their information is a similar way to how the NRS do, only they feature their information in a drop down list; for example they have records of the most viewed shows from every channel in every month on specific dates. They are listed in order of how many viewers they got when they were watched on their original broadcast date.
Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) - ABC provide an independent figure verification of circulation figures to help facilitate the buying and selling of advertising space of Britain's newspapers. ABC are much more secure with their reports than other websites, as to access their reports you have to create an account and then subscribe to ABC. Without a subscription, you cannot access any of their reports, and you must be signed in with a corporate email address.
Radio Joint Audience Research Limited (RAJAR) - RAJAR are used to operate a single audience measurement system for Britain's radio industry. RAJAR's website is set out much easier than some of the other websites, and their quarterly analysis of radio listeners is fairly easy to access. For example; their latest report shows that on average listeners of radio listen to around 21.7 hours of live radio per week.
Office of Communications (OFCOM) - OFCOM are the goverment-approved competition authority who deal with the broadcasting and telecommunications industries of Britain. OFCOM's website seems to be a bit more old fashioned than some of the other websites, but the facts and figures are still fairly easy to locate. They analysis different types of figures, which include analysing the average time that people spend on laptops browsing the internet to the proportion of adults in Britain that own broadband.
Bibliography
Web link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcasters%27_Audience_Research_Board [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link: http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-10 [[Acessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audit_Bureau_of_Circulations_(UK) [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link: http://www.abc.org.uk/InSufficient-Access-Rights/ [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAJAR [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link: http://www.rajar.co.uk/ [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofcom [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link: http://media.ofcom.org.uk/facts/ [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]
Web link:
http://www.nrs.co.uk/latest-results/nrs-padd-results/magazines-nrspaddresults/ [[Accessed 19th September 2015]]