Norway

Published

June 12, 2025

We collected data from 13 news outlets on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts:
5 Print , 4 Digital , 3 Private broadcaster , 1 Public broadcaster .

Overall, these outlets published 1191 posts.

The median outlet published 1.4 TikToks, 0.9 Instagram reels, and 0.4 YouTube shorts per day.

Basics

Platforms shares

Platform Active brands Posts % of brands % of posts
TikTok 10 610 77 51
Instagram 11 535 85 45
YouTube Shorts 4 46 31 4

Published posts

Outlet Posts TikTok Instagram YouTube Shorts Content duplication (%)
ABC News 104 51 53 - 19
Aftenposten 104 61 43 - 7
Dagbladet 63 24 26 13 33
Dagens Næringsliv 2 - 2 - -
Document.no 1 1 - - -
E24 3 - 3 - -
Klassekampen 6 - - 6 -
Nettavisen 161 98 50 13 3
NRK News 67 34 19 14 7
P4 36 18 18 - 4
Radio Norge 30 3 27 - -
TV2 News 279 149 130 - 16
VG 335 171 164 - 26
Norway 1191 610 535 46 16

Outlet analyses

Topics

Hard news

Outlet Politics Crime War/ Disasters Economy Social Affairs
ABC News 22 18 22 9 13
Aftenposten 11 24 8 13 24
Dagbladet 11 24 15 10 11
Klassekampen 21 19 14 13 14
Nettavisen 26 19 8 26 15
NRK News 25 13 25 8 14
P4 9 16 9 9 10
Radio Norge 14 16 11 11 12
TV2 News 19 40 15 11 25
VG 10 37 18 9 18
Norway 16 29 15 12 18
Overall 30 24 19 15 16

General/hybrid news

Outlet Environment Infrastructure Science/ Education Health/ Fitness Culture Sports
ABC News 5 15 7 5 4 3
Aftenposten 3 6 6 15 7 8
Dagbladet 4 5 5 6 9 11
Klassekampen 4 9 6 7 6 5
Nettavisen 2 8 9 10 4 7
NRK News 3 5 4 14 4 8
P4 3 9 5 6 8 6
Radio Norge 4 6 7 7 10 4
TV2 News 6 6 11 14 4 6
VG 4 3 15 13 6 6
Norway 4 7 11 13 5 7
Overall 5 7 7 8 7 6

Soft news and promotion

Outlet Entertainment Celebrity Lifestyle Fashion Food Animals Comedy Ads
ABC News 3 9 14 1 4 6 4 4
Aftenposten 22 15 19 2 10 2 9 5
Dagbladet 11 10 5 1 5 3 2 3
Klassekampen 7 7 10 1 3 3 2 3
Nettavisen 10 24 10 3 9 2 4 2
NRK News 16 4 22 1 10 2 13 5
P4 30 13 14 1 3 8 11 23
Radio Norge 42 6 6 1 3 4 8 16
TV2 News 4 12 8 1 8 3 4 5
VG 5 12 11 3 3 4 4 5
Norway 9 14 14 2 7 4 6 6
Overall 12 10 8 1 4 3 5 5

Platformization

Outlet Video duration (sec) Vertical videos (%) Addressing the audience (%) Calling for interactions (%)
ABC News 52 71 4 32
Aftenposten 72 91 8 27
Dagbladet 43 87 4 17
Klassekampen 18 - - -
Nettavisen 62 93 4 11
NRK News 55 76 4 37
P4 65 87 4 40
Radio Norge 58 90 4 52
TV2 News 62 91 8 51
VG 40 96 9 26
Norway 54 92 7 35
Overall 80 76 5 24

Diversity

Outlet Visible women (%) Mean age Age diversity (IQR) Topic diversity (topics)
ABC News 37 34 12 8
Aftenposten 28 30 12 9
Dagbladet 30 34 13 4
Klassekampen 29 33 12 5
Nettavisen 42 30 11 8
NRK News 44 30 13 6
P4 32 33 14 7
Radio Norge 38 31 12 6
TV2 News 53 30 13 10
VG 45 30 13 10
Norway 46 30 12 8
Overall 34 34 14 7

Note: Outlet-level results are empirical Bayes estimates from the respective analyses.