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Reach & Targeting Abilities

Our Audience Defined

At $81,000, the median household income of adults who read our suburban weekly newspapers is 33% higher than the rest of the Detroit market and 49% higher than the US average!

Demographics
  • 62% of adults (35-54)
  • 59% of adults (25-54)
  • 63% of adults (65+)
  • 61% of homeowners
  • 69% of college graduates
  • 66% of adults a with household incomes more than $75,000

The Detroit Media Partnership dominates the market with more than 2.4 million readers and visitors every week. Even our daily single-copy readers outnumber the combined readers of our biggest daily newspaper competitors.

  • More than one million adults read a daily Detroit Free Press or The Detroit News.
  • More than 1.4 million adults read a Sunday Free Press. We’re simply the fastest way to reach the biggest audience in metro Detroit.
  • Every month 4.5 million online readers a month visit freep.com and another 3.6 million go to detnews.com for a combined total of more then 8 million visitors from around the world.
  • Our mobile sites, mfreep.com and mdetnews.com, are viewed 1.7 million times, averaging nearly 5 million pageviews per month.
  • In their first full month of service, freep.com and detnews.com apps for iPhone and Android delivered more than one million pageviews.
  • Combined pageviews to Detroit Media Partnership websites average more than nearly one billion views annually in 2008.
  • Pageviews to freep.com and detnews.com jumped 37% in 2008.

Print vs. Radio

Our single-copy readers alone outnumber average quarter-hour listeners to Detroit’s Top 5 radio stations during the morning drive time peak.

TV vs. Print

Our daily single-copy reach will still outnumber an ad on any broadcast network during primetime.