Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Small business Audience in Italy

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Small business in Italy — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Small business has an estimated audience of 9,961,884 people in Italy.

The average Small business fan in Italy is 44.6 years old, balanced, and lives primarily in Lombardy.

The audience is concentrated in Lombardy, Lazio, Campania.

Top brand affinities include Do it yourself (DIY), Innovation, Entrepreneurship, with strongest over-indexing on Do it yourself (DIY) (1.82× the country average).

Demographically, the Small business audience skews balanced with an average age of 44.6, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Risk Appetite, Career Orientation.

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

The typical Small business fan in Italy is balanced, around 44.6 years old, with strong Risk Appetite tendencies and a notable affinity for Do it yourself (DIY).

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 Small business profile in Italy.

Audience size
10M
in Italy
Gender
45.8%
54.2% male
Age
44.6
average years
Country rank
#500
Topic in Italy
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-26%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Small business fans

45.8% are female, 54.2% are male, average age 44.6.

Fig. 02

Gender split

45.8%
Female
54.2%
Male
Demographic split for Small business audience in Italy
MetricValue
Female45.8%
Male54.2%
Average age44.6
Estimated audience size9,961,884
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 44.6
average years
Age distribution of the Small business audience in Italy
Age bracketShare%
16-1911%
20-2914%
30-3919%
40-4923%
50+34%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

3.2%

of the worldwide Small business audience comes from Italy.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Small business
CountryShare
United States20.5%
Japan4.5%
Brazil4.3%
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 Small business audience in Italy is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Small business fans by region: top regions in Italy
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Aosta Valley~30K1.33×
02Molise~60K1.19×
03Basilicata~100K1.08×
04Umbria~200K0.99×
05Abruzzo~200K0.97×
06Friuli-Venezia Giulia~200K0.97×
07Calabria~300K0.96×
08Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol~200K0.96×
09Sardinia~300K0.95×
10Liguria~300K0.95×
11Marche~200K0.95×
12Sicilia~800K0.92×
13Puglia~600K0.92×
14Piedmont~700K0.91×
15Tuscany~600K0.91×
16Emilia-Romagna~700K0.89×
17Campania~1M0.88×
18Veneto~700K0.88×
19Lombardy~1.5M0.87×
20Lazio~1M0.86×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

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

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Small business audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01InnovationBusiness & Career2.38×
02Self-employmentBusiness & Career2.25×
03Summer vacationTravel & Leisure2.08×
04CollegeBusiness & Career2.07×
05Social changePolitics & Society1.98×
06Art exhibitionArts & Culture1.96×
07ActivismPolitics & Society1.93×
08Fine-art photographyTechnology & Electronics1.93×
09Do it yourself (DIY)Home & Garden1.82×
10PodcastMusic & Radio1.75×
11PrimarkShopping1.72×
12Self-awarenessHealth1.68×
13Digital photographyBusiness & Career1.65×
14Self-esteemHealth1.65×
15Modern artArts & Culture1.63×
16BatmanMovies & TV1.59×
17Financial servicesBusiness & Career1.56×
18SupermanMovies & TV1.56×
19SuperEnalottoGames1.53×
20EntrepreneurshipBusiness & Career1.51×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Small business 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 Small business audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Risk AppetiteTHRILL1.71×
Career OrientationPOWER1.48×
TravellingTHRILL1.46×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Small business audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.62×
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM0.74×
SpiritualityBALANCE0.81×
1.00× baseline
Section 06

Frequently asked questions

01

How many fans does Small business have in Italy?

Small business has an estimated audience of 9,961,884 people in Italy, concentrated in Lombardy and Lazio.

02

What is the gender split and age of Small business fans?

45.8% of Small business fans are female, 54.2% are male, with an average age of 44.6 years.

03

Which brands do Small business fans like most?

Small business fans show strongest brand affinity for Do it yourself (DIY) (1.82×), Innovation (2.38×), and Entrepreneurship (1.51×) over the country average.

04

Where do Small business fans live in Italy?

Small business fans in Italy are most concentrated in Lombardy (reach ~1.5M), Lazio (reach ~1M), and Campania (reach ~1M). These three regions account for the largest share of the active audience.

05

What other brands do Small business fans also like?

Beyond Small business itself, the audience over-indexes on Innovation (2.38×), Entrepreneurship (1.51×), Activism (1.93×), and SuperEnalotto (1.53×) 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 Small business. 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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