Reelin’ in the years: tracking the growth of DAB+
Bernie O'Neill writes: As we published our latest infographic to coincide with World Radio Day 2025, I wanted to go back to the archives to see how far we’d travelled on our DAB+ journey, compared to some of the earliest editions of our research document. In 2013, the organisation — then known as “WorldDMB” (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) — published its initial data-drop. In the first year of the infographic, the United Kingdom led the way with 20 million receiver sales (including pre-2008 data). Today, this figure stands at an impressive 55 million. Australia, Norway and Switzerland each had over 1 million receivers sold in 2013 — and just over ten years later, those figures now stand at 10m, 9m, and 6m respectively, alongside Germany now totaling 28 million and Italy reporting 12 million sales.
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