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For almost 160 years, the Mercury has been at the forefront of news, public debate and entertainment in Hobart. As the Voice of Tasmania, the Mercury, through its seven day multi-platform operation, informs and challenges. It shares cheers and tears, stimulates discussion and action, records and presents major news events and is a vital part of the fabric of Tasmania.
The Mercury, whether in-paper or online, seeks to deliver the best daily combination of local news, sport, weather, entertainment and business coverage.
We are extremely proud of our Saturday magazine, a 24-page lift-out which is inserted into the Mercury. The Saturday magazine focuses on great Tasmanian stories and great Tasmanians – the innovative, the inspirational, the colourful, the quirky and the controversial. It is about celebrating all that is good about our beautiful state.
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Key facts
Source: Readership - emmaTM conducted by Ipsos MediaCT, 12 months ending December 2015.
330,000
Total audience
Mercury
As the only daily newspaper in Southern Tasmania, the Mercury presents hyper-local news and content. Its primary focus is presenting community based Tasmanian news. We are the ‘Voice of Tasmania’ – we engage, interact and converse with our community and value our readers opinions
Many of our readers simply can’t start their Saturdays without our newspaper. They devote more time to it than any other day of the week. Whilst the Mercury on Saturday features our local, national and international news, it also carries our lift-out Carsguide section, our Saturday magazines as well as CareerOne and a strong classified section.
Key Facts
95,000
Readership (M-F AVG)
108,000
Readership (SAT)
31,578
Circulation (M-F AVG)
42,423
Circulation (SAT)
$1.30
Cover Price M-F
$2.00
Cover Price Sat
Source: Readership - emmaTM conducted by Ipsos MediaCT, 12 months ending December 2015. Circulation - ABC Oct-Dec 2015.
Online
themercury.com.au
The Mercury is committed to the digital platform. Our website has a strong following with over 20,000 UA’s per day and our page impressions are over 4 million per month. The average person stays on our website for over eight minutes, with the main driver to the website being our local news coverage. We have a dedicated social media strategy including over 11,000 facebook fans and over 2,000 twitter followers. Our online video content and pictorial galleries are all important components on our website helping us to drive strong traffic levels. We also have a digital edition newspaper for those who have trouble accessing our printed product.
Key Facts
3,420,000
Page views
122,000
Unique Audience
1,074,000
Sessions
8.82
Sessions per person
00:32:24
Time per person
Source: Nielsen MediaView, December 2015