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The Media Barometer  | 16 May 2023

The Swedish Media Barometer 2022: Read the report and watch the seminar

The Swedish Media Barometer 2022 shows that the Swedish population’s media use during the last year stayed at the record-high levels measured in the pandemic years 2020 and 2021. Find the report and watch the seminar about the Swedish Media Barometer 2022 (in Swedish) here.
The cover of the Swedish Media Barometer 2022.
The Media Barometer  | 16 May 2023

Streamed TV, social media, and daily newspaper subscriptions – this is how the Swedish population used media in 2022

Nine in ten of the Swedish population watched moving images on an average day in 2022 – streamed TV was most popular. Half of the population had a daily newspaper subscription, and Instagram was the most used social networking service – except among the oldest. Read the summary of the most important results from the Swedish Media Barometer 2022.
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Press release  | 16 May 2023

Swedish media consumption record high in 2022

Preceded by two years of a pandemic, 2022 was influenced by war and economic crisis, and it also included an election in Sweden and several international sports championships. All this meant that the Swedish population’s media consumption stayed at record-high levels, not least when it came to the use of professional news media. This is shown by the Swedish Media Barometer 2022 from Nordicom at the University of Gothenburg.
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The Norwegian telecom giant Telenor tops the list over the 25 largest media companies in the Nordics in 2021, and the Nordic region's four largest newspaper companies come from four different countries. The latest factsheets from Nordicom present the lists of the 25 largest media companies and the 10 largest newspaper companies in the Nordics in 2021.

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