Total online listening share increased by 43% percentage points year-over-year to encompass nearly a quarter of all digital listening.

The BBC has grown its share against commercial radio after two quarters of decline.

Global’s Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston & Amanda Holden and Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp both bounced back from an underperforming Q3.

In brief: Women in media are being urged to help identify online harms and the issues they face at work by Daily Mirror publisher Reach and the non-profit company Women in Journalism. 

Global retained the top spot in commercial radio brands in the first time Rajar has reported year-on-year changes since pre-pandemic.

The latest Rajar figures have revealed commercial radio listening growing to an all-time high, the rise of smart speakers and decline in breakfast listening.

Global’s largest radio brands have each suffered double-digit declines in audiences in the commercially important breakfast timeslot, the latest Rajar audience survey has revealed.

Smart speaker listening now accounts for 13.4% of all radio listening and over half of total online radio listening (23.6%).

Global continues to lead the commercial pack despite the UK’s biggest radio brands seeing quarterly declines in listening across the board.

BBC Radio 2 is still the most listened-to breakfast show despite its audience shrinking three consecutive quarters.