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JNLR

JNLR Audience Intelligence

Official audience data for Irish radio — updated quarterly, built for planning.

Appointed Technology Partner
The Partnership

The definitive platform for Irish radio audience data

adserve is the appointed technology partner for JNLR, delivering the industry-standard audience measurement and campaign planning tools used across the Irish radio market. Updated quarterly with official JNLR data from Ipsos, the platform gives stations, agencies and advertisers the insight they need to plan, trade and measure commercial radio with confidence.

3.3M+
Adults surveyed annually
65+
Stations measured
Quarterly
Data release cycle
50+
Audience filter criteria
The Opportunity

Why Audience Intelligence Matters

Linear radio is entering a new era of measurement accountability. Irish radio has traded on spot price; advertisers now buy on audience — and the currency is CPT.

  • The shift is happening now — agencies measure linear audio alongside every other channel.
  • Radio that can't prove CPT delivery as precisely as digital gets undervalued in omni-channel plans by default.
  • Stations that show the audiences their spots reached — and at what cost — protect and grow their share of spend.
  • JNLR data lands every quarter. adserve turns it into planning intelligence for stations and agencies alike.
Platform Overview

Two products. One connected platform.

The adserve JNLR platform comprises two complementary products, each designed for a distinct role in the Irish radio market, sharing the same official JNLR data foundation to ensure consistency across every user.

For Stations & Media Groups

JNLR Audience Analyser

The industry's audience intelligence tool, enabling radio stations and stakeholders to interrogate JNLR listening data in detail — across stations, audiences, dayparts and time periods. It supports the creation of custom audience definitions and provides the analytical depth needed to understand station performance, identify audience trends and articulate commercial value to the market.

For Agencies & Advertisers

JNLR Agency Planner

A dedicated planning tool for media agencies and advertisers in the Irish market. It takes the audience intelligence of the Audience Analyser and applies it directly to the campaign planning process, enabling planners to build, evaluate and optimise radio schedules with audience delivery at the centre.

Both products are updated quarterly in line with each official JNLR data release, ensuring the entire market is always working from the same current data.

JNLR Audience Analyser

Deep audience insight for every station in the Irish market

Explore JNLR listening data dynamically — not headline figures or static reports, but the specific questions you need answered, from breakfast performance against a demographic to multi-quarter trends.

Custom Audience Builder

Combine age, sex, province, social class, employment and education to define audiences the way the market trades. Save bespoke segments and apply them consistently across the platform.

Daypart Analysis

Analyse across TAP/Prime trading dayparts and granular standard dayparts — breakfast to overnight. Find where your audience strength lies and build the commercial case on real data.

Station Performance & Benchmarking

Station-level reach, share and listening — by audience, daypart and period. Compare stations, track trends, and support both internal review and market-facing development.

CPT and Commercial Value

Combine JNLR audience data with commercial parameters to show your CPT against audiences delivered. In an omni-channel world, that's strategic — not just reporting.

Audience Builder
JNLR Audience Builder
JNLR Agency Planner

Real-time campaign planning powered by official JNLR data

A dedicated planning tool for media agencies and advertisers in the Irish market. Select stations, define schedule parameters, specify target audiences, and see expected reach, frequency, impacts and CPT update live as the plan evolves — audience delivery at the centre of every decision.

JNLR Agency Planner — Dublin 98FM · Bank of Ireland · Adults 35–54
JNLR Agency Planner full planning view

Multi-Station Planning

Campaign plans span multiple stations, showing not just individual delivery but the combined effect across the selected schedule — essential for building national or regional campaigns across multiple radio brands.

Audience Delivery by Station & Daypart

Detailed breakdown across three dimensions: station, daypart and custom audience — showing exactly how a plan performs against each station, each daypart, and every audience segment built in the Audience Analyser.

CPT-Based Evaluation & Export

CPT calculated across every dimension of the plan. Completed plans export directly as Excel workbooks or PDF reports, streamlining the briefing process and giving media groups a clear campaign specification from the outset.

Reach Analysis & Station Profiles

Visualise reach build and compare station performance

Move from plan to insight without leaving the platform. Visualise cumulative reach build across OTH levels, compare station audience profiles by demographic, and export charts and tables as PDFs ready for client presentation.

Reach & Frequency Analysis

Cumulative reach build by OTH with full station-by-station breakdown — TRP, impacts, reach and CPT in a single view.

Total Reach v OTH · Adults 15+
JNLR Reach vs OTH analysis
Station Audience Profiles

Compare stations side-by-side across age groups — revealing which stations index highest against your target audience.

Station Audience Profiles by Age Group
JNLR station comparison chart
OTH+Reach build
TRPTarget rating points
CPTCost per thousand
PDFChart export
XLSData export
The CPT Imperative

Why CPT changes everything for Irish Radio

The ad industry evaluates every medium on one metric: cost per thousand. Programmatic, video, digital audio — all judged on CPT. Linear radio has sat outside that framework, traded on spot price. That's no longer sustainable.

  • Campaigns are planned, bought and evaluated across channels together — every medium has to speak CPT.
  • Radio that can't express its value in CPT is compared unfavourably by default — not for delivering less, but for failing to prove it.
  • adserve calculates reach, frequency, impacts and CPT from official JNLR data in real time — so Irish radio competes on equal terms.
"This is not about changing how radio is sold. It is about ensuring radio can demonstrate its value in the way the market now demands."
Data Integrity & Industry Trust

Built on validated data, transparent methodology and industry governance

The credibility of any audience measurement platform depends entirely on the integrity of its data and the transparency of its methodology. The adserve JNLR platform is designed with this principle at its core.

Official Data Only

Official JNLR data is the sole audience data source. Every figure in the platform traces directly to the quarterly JNLR release. adserve works directly with both JNLR and Ipsos on data integration, validation and quality assurance.

Published Methodology

The reach and frequency algorithms used throughout the platform are formally agreed between adserve and JNLR. Any material changes require JNLR approval before implementation, ensuring every user understands how outputs are calculated consistently.

Quarterly Review Forum

Each quarter, adserve and JNLR conduct a formal joint review covering service availability, data updates and industry feedback. This structured governance ensures the platform remains aligned with the needs of the Irish radio market and that issues are identified and addressed promptly.

Quarterly Industry Training

Training is provided to industry stakeholders in conjunction with each new data release, ensuring that stations and agencies are equipped to make full use of the platform and that new features are introduced with proper support.

What JNLR Says

"JNLR data is the backbone of radio trading in Ireland. It underpins every conversation between stations and agencies, and every investment decision that advertisers make in our medium. What we have lacked until now is a set of modern, purpose-built tools that make that data truly accessible and actionable for everyone in the industry."

"This collaboration with adserve changes that. The JNLR Audience Analyser and Agency Planner will give stations and agencies a level of analytical capability that is genuinely new for the Irish market — professional tools, regularly updated, with validated methodology and proper industry support behind them."

"But what excites me most is where this partnership can go. Radio in Ireland is in a strong position — our audiences are growing, our content is diversifying across digital and podcast platforms, and advertiser interest is increasing. Having a technology partner who understands audio from the inside, and who is committed to innovating alongside us, gives the Irish industry the foundation to compete even more effectively for advertising investment in the years ahead."

Scott Williams
Scott Williams
Chairman, JNLR
Who Is It For

Built for every stakeholder in Irish Radio

Radio Stations & Media Groups

Understand your audience with precision. The Audience Analyser gives you the ability to interrogate station performance across every audience, daypart and time period — and to articulate that performance in the CPT terms the market now requires. Build custom audience segments that reflect your commercial strengths and track your position in the market quarter by quarter.

Media Agencies

Plan radio with the same rigour you apply to every other channel. The Agency Planner enables the construction of detailed, audience-led campaign plans using official JNLR data, with immediate visibility into reach, frequency, impacts and CPT across station, daypart and audience. Build plans and share them with media groups — all from a single platform.

Advertisers

Understand what your radio investment delivers. Whether you buy direct or through an agency, the JNLR platform gives you visibility into the audiences your campaigns reach, the dayparts they are concentrated in, and the cost-efficiency of your radio spend expressed in the same CPT terms as every other channel in your media plan.

The Industry

A single, trusted platform used across the Irish radio market ensures consistency. When a station, an agency and an advertiser are all working from the same data, processed through the same validated methodology, the market operates with shared confidence — reducing friction and building trust in radio as a measurable, accountable medium.

Why adserve

Two decades of radio audience data expertise

More than two decades in radio audience measurement and media-planning technology — including RAJAR Standard, the UK's equivalent, integrated into adserve for the commercial radio market.

  • Purpose-built for radio: quarter-hour listening data, TAP and standard dayparts, station-portfolio management and broadcast planning flows.
  • Part of adserve Studio — the omni-channel platform used by major UK and Irish media groups — with the same data-integrity standards and AI-driven roadmap.
  • Not a vendor relationship: a formal industry partnership with JNLR, governed on data quality, methodology transparency and ongoing support.
What's Coming Next

Intelligent Planning for Irish Radio — Built on adserve Studio

The JNLR Audience Analyser and Agency Planner represent the current state of the platform, with a roadmap that goes significantly further — drawing on capabilities already proven within adserve studio and adapting them for the Irish radio market.

Coming next

Automated Planning

Rather than building a plan station by station, agencies will be able to define campaign objectives — budget, target audience, desired CPT, daypart preferences — and receive an optimised plan automatically. The planner will select stations and allocate spots to deliver the best possible audience outcome within the specified parameters.

Coming next

Campaign Shape Creator

Agencies will be able to define the shape of their campaign delivery — whether that is a flat-weight schedule, a pulsed campaign or a weekend-weighted retail schedule — and have the planning engine distribute spots accordingly. A shift from a schedule-first process to an objective-first, audience-led approach.

Coming next

Agentic Planning Tools

The next step in planning intelligence. Drawing on the AI agent framework being developed within adserve studio, agentic tools will enable the system to evaluate multiple planning scenarios simultaneously, recommend optimal approaches and dynamically adjust as market conditions or campaign parameters change — a planning system that augments, not replaces, the planner.

These capabilities are not speculative. They are built on technology that is operational within adserve studio today and are part of the ongoing development programme governed by the JNLR collaboration agreement.

See the platform in action

Whether you are a radio station looking to better understand and articulate your audience value, or an agency seeking to plan radio with the rigour the market now demands — we would welcome the chance to show you what the adserve JNLR platform can do.