Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Mobile payment Audience in Italy

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Mobile payment in Italy — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Mobile payment has an estimated audience of 4,138,281 people in Italy.

The average Mobile payment fan in Italy is 46.3 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Lombardy.

The audience is concentrated in Lombardy, Lazio, Campania.

Top brand affinities include Payment system, Nexi, Contactless payment, with strongest over-indexing on Payment system (30.94× the country average).

Demographically, the Mobile payment audience skews balanced with an average age of 46.3, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Need for Security, Career Orientation.

Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 20 brand affinities and 17 regions tracked by Rascasse.

The typical Mobile payment fan in Italy is balanced, around 46.3 years old, with strong Need for Security tendencies and a notable affinity for Payment system.

Category: Business & Career · Type: Topic

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-10.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Mobile payment profile in Italy.

Audience size
4.1M
in Italy
Gender
48.9%
51.1% male
Age
46.3
average years
Country rank
#1675
Topic in Italy
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-24%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Mobile payment fans

48.9% are female, 51.1% are male, average age 46.3.

Fig. 02

Gender split

48.9%
Female
51.1%
Male
Demographic split for Mobile payment audience in Italy
MetricValue
Female48.9%
Male51.1%
Average age46.3
Estimated audience size4,138,281
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 46.3
average years
Age distribution of the Mobile payment audience in Italy
Age bracketShare%
16-196%
20-2913%
30-3919%
40-4924%
50+38%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

6.1%

of the worldwide Mobile payment audience comes from Italy.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Mobile payment
CountryShare
United States14.5%
India6.7%
Italy6.1%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Italy average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Mobile payment audience in Italy is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Mobile payment fans by region: top regions in Italy
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Umbria~80K1.12×
02Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol~80K1.06×
03Friuli-Venezia Giulia~80K1.06×
04Abruzzo~100K1.05×
05Calabria~100K1.03×
06Marche~100K1.02×
07Sardinia~100K1.01×
08Liguria~100K1.01×
09Piedmont~300K0.97×
10Lombardy~700K0.95×
11Sicilia~300K0.95×
12Veneto~300K0.95×
13Puglia~300K0.95×
14Tuscany~300K0.95×
15Campania~400K0.93×
16Emilia-Romagna~300K0.93×
17Lazio~500K0.91×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Mobile payment audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Mobile payment audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Contactless paymentBusiness & Career38.25×
02Payment systemShopping30.94×
03NexiBusiness & Career20.94×
04Financial transactionBusiness & Career19.22×
05SumupBusiness & Career13.68×
06Compass Business & Career12.77×
07Apple PayTechnology & Electronics11.31×
08Online bankingBusiness & Career11.04×
09Debit cardBusiness & Career10.82×
10Digital currencyBusiness & Career10.19×
11Digital walletInternet & Social Media8.29×
12American ExpressBusiness & Career7.54×
13Che bancaBusiness & Career7.29×
14Financial technologyBusiness & Career6.17×
15BankingBusiness & Career3.51×
16Credit cardsBusiness & Career3.31×
17Financial servicesBusiness & Career3.03×
18Personal financeBusiness & Career2.57×
19GeminiTechnology & Electronics2.55×
20Poste italianeBusiness & Career2.30×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Mobile payment audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Mobile payment audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM2.15×
Career OrientationPOWER1.97×
Early Adopter MentalityPOWER1.67×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Mobile payment audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
TraditionCONSERVATISM0.64×
CreativityOPEN0.72×
Pet OwnershipJOY0.76×
1.00× baseline
Section 06

Frequently asked questions

01

How many fans does Mobile payment have in Italy?

Mobile payment has an estimated audience of 4,138,281 people in Italy, concentrated in Lombardy and Lazio.

02

What is the gender split and age of Mobile payment fans?

48.9% of Mobile payment fans are female, 51.1% are male, with an average age of 46.3 years.

03

Which brands do Mobile payment fans like most?

Mobile payment fans show strongest brand affinity for Payment system (30.94×), Nexi (20.94×), and Contactless payment (38.25×) over the country average.

04

Where do Mobile payment fans live in Italy?

Mobile payment fans in Italy are most concentrated in Lombardy (reach ~700K), Lazio (reach ~500K), and Campania (reach ~400K). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.

05

What other brands do Mobile payment fans also like?

Beyond Mobile payment itself, the audience over-indexes on Nexi (20.94×), Contactless payment (38.25×), Compass  (12.77×), and Online banking (11.04×) compared to the Italy average.

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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Italy who actively search for Mobile payment. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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