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Times Media Limited (Apps)
For news-conscious professionals, academics, and crossword enthusiasts seeking high-authority UK and global commentary.
Known for
For news-conscious professionals, academics, and crossword enthusiasts seeking high-authority UK and global commentary.
Providing premium journalism and intellectual stimulation to help news-conscious professionals stay informed and engaged with global affairs.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 5Last updated
Times Radio - Listen Live
v55.5.0
3mo ago
Primary focus
Premium news and intellectual lifestyle content
Scale
indie
Target audience
News-conscious professionals, academics, and crossword enthusiasts seeking high-authority UK and global commentary.
Origin
Founded in 1785 as the Daily Universal Register, it is the oldest national daily newspaper in the UK.
Released 20 updates across 5 apps in the last 6 months with 80% of the portfolio currently active.
5 apps analysed
Specialized multi-language literary coverage
High user trust and perceived content superiority over BBC
Distributed across 20 markets, strongest in Europe.
Based on 1 of 5 apps with localized market data — more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
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Positive apps
0
Neutral / mixed
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Negative apps
56/100
Avg sentiment score
Matches the target's high-brow cultural positioning and primary category while maintaining a rating count within the same order of magnitude (7.6x) and a high release velocity (17 updates).
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
Direct commercial rival in the UK market, aggregating major talk-radio brands like LBC that compete for the same 'informed conversation' audience.
Represents the platform-based threat to curated literary journals, leveraging a massive user base and algorithmic discovery.
The gold standard for the 'public radio' UX that Times Radio emulates, maintaining high engagement with 12 releases in the last 6 months.
The most direct content rival in the literary review space, though it maintains a lower technical release cadence.
Primary UK news alternative with high update velocity (9 releases in 6 months) and a strong emphasis on live digital broadcasting.
A high-authority alternative with massive scale (118k reviews) that competes for the same intellectual 'ideas' audience.
Offers a similar 'weekly magazine' digital experience but with a focus on global affairs and a best-in-class update schedule.
Aggressive product iteration (20 releases in 6 months) focused on speed and global wire-service reliability.
A high-utility tool used by the target's power users to consume Times Radio's on-demand content outside of the native app.
The dominant incumbent in the UK news ecosystem; while BBC Sounds is the direct audio rival, this app captures the primary news-seeking traffic.
A peer in the UK 'quality press' space, focusing on a curated daily 'edition' experience rather than live broadcast.
A niche but influential peer focused on premium audio features for the 'prosumer' listener.
A niche peer that isolates and dominates the poetry sub-segment of the target app's content offering.
A peer in the UK weekly market focusing on the intersection of politics and culture.
A rising threat using AI to disrupt traditional audio consumption with 24 releases in the last 6 months.
The primary emerging threat to institutional literary criticism, driven by a creator-centric model and high recent activity.
