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101 million

American adults who read a newspaper in print or online every weekday

110 million

Unique visitors to newspaper websites in August 2012

56 percent

The percentage of 18- to 24-year-olds who read a newspaper in print or online in the past week

$24 billion

Amount spent by advertisers in U.S. newspapers in 2011

Nearly 7 in 10

Adults reading a newspaper in print or online in the past week

$10 billion

Amount consumers spent on buying newspapers in 2011

36 percent

Adults who claim they did not read a newspaper in the past week - but who did use one

15 percent

Share of newspaper revenue now coming from digital

$3.2 billion

Total Web ad revenue recorded by newspapers in 2011

28 million

Adults who access newspaper content on their smartphones or tablets in a typical month

79 percent

U.S. adults who took action on a newspaper ad in the past 30 days

110 +

Number of newspapers with tablet apps

 

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Sources

Scarborough Research, USA+, Release 1, 2012; Frank N. Magid “How America Shops and Spends 2011” and “Newspaper Multiplatform Usage Study 2012”

 


 

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