Most popular news sources in Hungary 2022

According to the study conducted in 2022, nearly 60 percent of Hungarians had watched news programs on television during the week preceding the survey. Another 57 percent of the respondents accessed online news platforms for the same purpose.

Online news consumption

Online news portals represent the main source of information for many people, and modern digital devices allow us to consume news anywhere and anytime. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that according to the findings of a survey conducted in 2021, the majority of Hungarians used their smartphones to read news on the internet. When it comes to the most popular online news brand in the country, in 2022, index.hu ranked first, reaching approximately 37 percent of internet users on a weekly basis.

Willingness to pay for online news

Even though most Hungarians informed themselves from news websites, only a few were willing to pay for this service. As the findings of a survey pointed it out, 24 percent of Hungarians would pay to access news on the internet. In 2020, Hungarians’ most common reason for refusing to pay for online news was that they could access the same information free of charge from other sources, while every fifth person claimed that they could not afford paying for news.