Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Popular culture Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Popular culture in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Popular culture has an estimated audience of 2,478,981 people in South Africa.

#144among Topic in South Africa
#4in Arts & Culture

Popular culture has an estimated audience of 2,478,981 people in South Africa. 52.8% are female, 47.2% are male, average age 35.4. Top brand affinities: Late-night talk show, Buddhism, Anne Hathaway, Emma Watson, Vikings (TV series).

Top brand affinities include Late-night talk show, Buddhism, Anne Hathaway, with strongest over-indexing on Late-night talk show (1.8× the country average).

Demographically, the Popular culture audience skews balanced with an average age of 35.4, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Spirituality, Extroversion.

The typical Popular culture fan in South Africa is balanced, around 35.4 years old, with strong Spirituality tendencies and a notable affinity for Late-night talk show.

Category: Arts & Culture · 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 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Popular culture profile in South Africa.

Audience size
2.5M
in South Africa
Gender
52.8%
47.2% male
Age
35.4
average years
Country rank
#222
Topic in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

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

Demographics of Popular culture fans

52.8% are female, 47.2% are male, average age 35.4.

Fig. 02

Gender split

52.8%
Female
47.2%
Male
Demographic split for Popular culture audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female52.8%
Male47.2%
Average age35.4
Estimated audience size2,478,981
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 35.4
average years
Age distribution of the Popular culture audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1929%
20-2924%
30-3918%
40-4911%
50+17%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

0.7%

of the worldwide Popular culture audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Popular culture
CountryShare
United States23.2%
China7.1%
India5.6%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

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

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Popular culture audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Late-night talk showMovies & TV1.80×
02Deutsche WelleMusic & Radio1.73×
03Better Call SaulMovies & TV1.71×
04Emma WatsonMovies & TV1.70×
05Will FerrellMovies & TV1.68×
06Buffy the Vampire SlayerMovies & TV1.68×
07KenzoFashion & Accessoires1.64×
08Cannes Film FestivalMovies & TV1.60×
09Vikings (TV series)Movies & TV1.58×
10Alanis MorissetteMusic & Radio1.58×
11james arthurMusic & Radio1.57×
12Atlanta United FCSports1.55×
13Goth subcultureFashion & Accessoires1.54×
14Udinese CalcioSports1.54×
15BuddhismHealth1.53×
16Torino F.C.Sports1.53×
17Criticism of religionPolitics & Society1.53×
18EuroLeagueSports1.52×
19Aziz AnsariMovies & TV1.52×
20Anne HathawayMovies & TV1.50×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Popular culture 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 Popular culture audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
SpiritualityBALANCE1.17×
ExtroversionTHRILL1.12×
Early Adopter MentalityPOWER1.09×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Popular culture audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM0.72×
Social Media UsageJOY0.86×
Family OrientationCONSERVATISM0.87×
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 Popular culture. 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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