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posted on Jul. 17, 2025 at 9:40 amJul 17, 2025

BBC News Arabic bucks trend with 13 per cent audience rise to 39.5 million per week

posted on Jul. 17, 2025 at 9:40 amJul 17, 2025

In a year of international conflicts, crises and elections, audiences have chosen to turn to BBC News Arabic while most of the media industry witnesses declining viewership of news.

BBC News Arabic

BBC News Arabic TV has seen its weekly viewership increase by 3 million people compared with 2023-2024

The audience for BBC News Arabic has risen by 13 per cent over the past year, according to data from the BBC’s Global Audience Measurement 2024-2025 published this week.
BBC News Arabic is now the BBC World Service’s largest language service, which aims to provide journalism to a global audience of 39.5 million people a week in the Arabic-speaking world across TV, radio and digital.
In a year of international conflicts, crises and elections, audiences have chosen to turn to BBC News Arabic. The BBC’s largest language service has seen growth across its broadcast offering, BBC News Arabic TV, digital programming and emergency lifeline radio services.
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the authorAnup Oommen

Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.