UKOM: explore the UK's digital habits in September 2022
UKOM’s latest Digital Market Overview for September 2022 shows that average time online per day for those aged 15+ in the UK was 3 hours 39 minutes...
Learn morePosted on: Thursday 12 November 2020 | UKOM
The Digital Market Overview provides a top-line snapshot on audience online behaviour, using UKOM approved Comscore multi-platform data that reports audiences and online time across PCs, tablets and smartphones
This report looks at digital user habits in the UK during September 2020 and, where appropriate, compares data with June 2020. Given many categories and properties witnessed significant growth or decline during the first lockdown the report also gives an update on those sectors that experienced most change between January and September.
Key insights this month include:
The UK online adult population spent 280 billion minutes online in September, after peaking at 330 billion during the first lockdown in April 2020
Average daily time online per adult is now 3hr 26m, down from 4hr 02m in April and 3hr 52m in June. Declines were seen across all ages and genders for the last quarter
Although a minority of categories such as ‘tickets’ are still way behind pre-pandemic visitor levels, many of those which suffered the biggest losses in April continued their recovery between June and April including travel, property and automotive
The launch of the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app on 24 September contributed to an increase in traffic for the NHS, which entered the ‘top 20 properties’ with 23.4m visitors. UKOM approved data shows the new tracking app alone had 9.7 million unique visitors in September
After peaking in March, visitors to government websites started to climb again. The September audience of www.gov.uk was 26 million – that is 57% of all online adults, a gain of 3.6m since June
Reach and time online increased for the sport category between June and September – Sky’s audience alone grew by 3.8m, most likely fuelled by the return of live football
The government’s ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ resulted in several food establishments seeing some big online audience increases between June and September, with many unsurprisingly peaking in August. A major beneficiary was Mitchell & Butler which added 2.3m visitors, after growth from many sub-brands including Harvester and Toby Carvery. The Wetherspoon order and pay app also added 1.3m unique visitors between June and September
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