2023 Reading trends: surge in personal finance, escapism and budget cooking
The magazine and newspaper app Readly has compiled its annual reading trends report of 2023. This year’s insights show that 390,000 digital issues were read 160 million times on the platform with readership spiking in categories such as Business & Finance (+22%), Lifestyle (+18%) and Food & Drink (+13%). The average subscriber spends 8.6 hours per month reading digitally on the app. The Business & Finance category gained popularity this year, with its share of the total readership increasing by 22 percent globally compared to 2022. Some of the issues