Rascasse Audience Intelligence

TV Audience in Italy

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about TV in Italy — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. TV has an estimated audience of 17,639,047 people in Italy.

TV fans in Italy are concentrated in Lombardy, with strong brand affinity for WhatsApp.

The audience is concentrated in Lombardy, Lazio, Campania.

Top brand affinities include WhatsApp, Wikipedia, Mediaset, with strongest over-indexing on WhatsApp (1.76× the country average).

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

The typical TV fan in Italy shows strong Convenience Orientation tendencies and a notable affinity for WhatsApp.

Category: Movies & TV · Type: Topic · Subtype: Lifestyle cluster

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 TV profile in Italy.

Audience size
17.6M
in Italy
Country rank
#177
Topic in Italy
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+73%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of TV fans

Fig. 02

Gender split

Demographic split for TV audience in Italy
MetricValue
Estimated audience size17,639,047
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

2.8%

of the worldwide TV audience comes from Italy.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for TV
CountryShare
United States21.4%
India7.6%
United Kingdom4.0%
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 TV audience in Italy is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

TV fans by region: top regions in Italy
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Sicilia~2M1.43×
02Piedmont~1.5M1.20×
03Liguria~600K1.20×
04Lombardy~3.5M1.17×
05Campania~2.5M1.17×
06Calabria~600K1.12×
07Lazio~2.5M1.08×
08Puglia~1.5M1.07×
09Friuli-Venezia Giulia~400K1.07×
10Tuscany~1M1.05×
11Veneto~1.5M1.01×
12Emilia-Romagna~1.5M1.00×
13Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol~300K0.95×
14Sardinia~500K0.94×
15Marche~400K0.89×
16Basilicata~100K0.89×
17Abruzzo~300K0.88×
18Umbria~200K0.79×
19Molise~70K0.78×
20Aosta Valley~30K0.72×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

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

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for TV audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01WikipediaInternet & Social Media2.62×
02SatireLiterature2.55×
03MediasetTechnology & Electronics2.32×
04BreastfeedingKids & Family2.29×
05TinderInternet & Social Media2.12×
06New TestamentPolitics & Society2.09×
07General practitionerHealth1.78×
08WhatsAppInternet & Social Media1.76×
09VolunteeringPolitics & Society1.76×
10RoseHome & Garden1.76×
11ChampagneFood & Beverages1.75×
12EniCars & Mobility1.64×
13Non-fiction booksLiterature1.63×
14DentistryBusiness & Career1.61×
15InnovationBusiness & Career1.60×
16Doctor of MedicineBusiness & Career1.60×
17Virtual realityTechnology & Electronics1.59×
18Sophia LorenMovies & TV1.56×
19Singer-songwriterMusic & Radio1.50×
20TV talkshowsMovies & TV1.50×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the TV 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 TV audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Convenience OrientationPREMIUM1.28×
Community OrientationOPEN1.17×
SustainabilityBALANCE1.15×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by TV audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Price SensitivityPREMIUM0.87×
Luxury OrientationPREMIUM0.87×
PatriotismCONSERVATISM0.88×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Italy who actively search for TV. 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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