Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Daily Sun Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Daily Sun in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Daily Sun has an estimated audience of 1,269,247 people in South Africa.

#2among Newspaper in South Africa
#26among Website / Newspaper / Magazine in South Africa
#4in News

Daily Sun has an estimated audience of 1,269,247 people in South Africa. 47.4% are female, 52.6% are male, average age 36.1. Top brand affinities: City car, Career development, Sports betting, Department store, Projectors.

Top brand affinities include City car, Career development, Sports betting, with strongest over-indexing on City car (1.68× the country average).

Demographically, the Daily Sun audience skews balanced with an average age of 36.1, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Career Orientation, Quality Awareness.

The typical Daily Sun fan in South Africa is balanced, around 36.1 years old, with strong Career Orientation tendencies and a notable affinity for City car.

Category: News · Type: Website / Newspaper / Magazine · Subtype: Newspaper

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Daily Sun profile in South Africa.

Audience size
1.3M
in South Africa
Gender
47.4%
52.6% male
Age
36.1
average years
Country rank
#575
Website / Newspaper / Magazine in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-18%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Audience demographics of Daily Sun

47.4% are female, 52.6% are male, average age 36.1.

Fig. 02

Gender split

47.4%
Female
52.6%
Male
Demographic split for Daily Sun audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female47.4%
Male52.6%
Average age36.1
Estimated audience size1,269,247
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 36.1
average years
Age distribution of the Daily Sun audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1926%
20-2927%
30-3917%
40-499%
50+21%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

87.2%

of the worldwide Daily Sun audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Daily Sun
CountryShare
South Africa87.2%
United Kingdom7.4%
United States2.8%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

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

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Daily Sun audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Malt whiskyFood & Beverages2.75×
02SmirnoffFood & Beverages2.41×
03Real SociedadSports2.37×
04Atalanta B.C.Sports1.98×
05Athletic BilbaoSports1.96×
06Single malt whiskyFood & Beverages1.94×
07Crystal Palace F.C.Sports1.90×
08Career developmentBusiness & Career1.81×
09Sports bettingGames1.72×
10Dow Jones Industrial AverageBusiness & Career1.72×
11Mobile bankingBusiness & Career1.70×
12AS Monaco FCSports1.69×
13City carCars & Mobility1.68×
14Leicester City F.C.Sports1.68×
15Employment agencyBusiness & Career1.66×
16Department storeShopping1.64×
17CognacFood & Beverages1.64×
18LotteryGames1.61×
19Outlet storeShopping1.58×
20ProjectorsTechnology & Electronics1.57×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Daily Sun 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 Daily Sun audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Career OrientationPOWER1.41×
Quality AwarenessPREMIUM1.26×
Convenience OrientationPREMIUM1.18×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Daily Sun audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
ExtroversionTHRILL0.75×
MindfulnessBALANCE0.79×
Pet OwnershipJOY0.80×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in South Africa who actively search for Daily Sun. 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 South Africa. 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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