Facts and figures

As a news brand, NRC reaches 3.8 million Dutch people every month and is the shortest path to the most selective reach among highly educated, high-income Dutch people who take the time to savour our content. The paying NRC reader is not only involved, but he or she has also committed to NRC for at least one year.

Print
1.3 million readers
per month

nrc.nl
31.7 million page views
per month

Podcast
750,000 downloads
per month

Print

With NRC Weekdays and NRC Weekend, NRC reaches a total of more than one million readers each month. On average, our readers spend a very long time reading content: NRC Weekend is one of the newspapers in the Netherlands with the longest reading time.

NRC Weekdays

352,900 readers
per publication

36 minutes of reading
on average, per publication

NRC Weekend

605,400 readers
per publication

57 minutes of reading
on average, per publication

Digital

Every month, nrc.nl reaches an average of three million Dutch people (13+). The number of paying readers on nrc.nl is growing, and readers spend a long time on our online articles. In addition, we use newsletters and social media to extend NRC’s digital reach.

31.7 million

page views per month

We have 260,000 unique e-mail addresses for our newsletter subscriptions

On average, nrc.nl has an on-page time of more than three minutes

Your advertisement has, on average, and active in-view time of 18 seconds

We have 260,000 unique e-mail addresses for our newsletter subscriptions

On average, nrc.nl has an on-page time of more than three minutes

Your advertisement has, on average, and active in-view time of 18 seconds

Actively in view of the reader for 18 seconds

Thanks to MOAT, our method of measurement, we know with certainty that when our readers are active on nrc.nl your advertisement is actively in-view for an average of 18 seconds.

Asynchronous loading

nrc.nl loads advertisements asynchronously. The advertisement loads ‘on-scroll’, meaning only when it is actually visible to the visitor of the relevant page.

Podcasts

Our podcasts NRC Haagse Zaken (on politics), NRC Onbehaarde Apen (on science) and NRC Vandaag (one news story, every working day) are growing weekly in the number of downloads per episode. That way to reach listeners with your commercial message when they are on-the-go and fully focused.

950,000 downloads
in total per month

listen to our podcasts in their entirety

younger than 35 years of age

About the NRC reader

NRC has the most selective reach among the highest social class (AB1) and for HBO+ educated readers of any newspaper in the Netherlands. This makes NRC the shortest path to highly educated, high-income Dutch residents who additionally exhibit above average interest in art, culture and the economy, among other topics.

Social class

NRC readers are over-represented in the AB1 social class. This social class is composed of individuals who have the highest level of education and have principle wage earner professions.

Socio-economic class

NRC readers have high incomes: whether in print or online, we reach many readers from the highest socio-economic class. The socio-economic class is based on the annual gross household income, the household level of education and on being a home owner.

45% High

41% Moderate

23% Low

Level of education

Through print and online media, we reach highly educated readers (HBO+), again with a high selectivity: NRC Doordeweeks is the most selective for the HBO+ target group.

The NRC reader

NL average

Leeftijdsverdeling

The traditional newspaper reader is slightly older than the average Dutch person. One quarter of our print readers is aged 35 or younger. For our online content, one third of our readers is aged 35 or younger.

Younger than 18 18-34 35-54 55-65 65+

37%

28%

More information

Are you interested in advertising in one of our titles or would you like to know more? We would be happy to personally assist you.

*Source: NOM Mediamerken 2019-III, NPDM 2019-I, NOM NPM 2019-IV, NOBO maart 2019 – augustus 2019, Google Analytics, MOAT, Inhouse research 2019, NPDM 2019, Art19 total number of downloads in November, Spotify 2019, Inhouse audience research 2018.