Record-setting audience growth

graph showing audience growth over 4 years

+52 Million

One-Year Audience Growth
+103 Million

Five-Year Audience Growth
278 Million

2016 Unduplicated Weekly Audience

Credible

86% of VOA’s audience rated its programming trustworthy.

Increase in growth by media

picture of tv and text with a 23% increase

picture of radio and text with a 27% increase

picture of computer and text with a 40% increase

SOCIAL

19% increase in messages sent to Cuba through OCB’s anti-censorship Social Network tool Piramedo.

Growth in Priority Impact Areas

Reaching audiences subject to extremist violence (% of population or total audience)

*Multi-country estimates are presented in real numbers, rather than percentages because of the potential high variations in percentages across countries.

Reaching audiences targeted by state-sponsored misinformation (by percentage)

Russian Federation

Ukraine

Moldova

TAJIKISTAN

LATVIA

LITHUANIA

Helping audiences overcome censorship

BBG-supported internet proxy tools saw a 20% increase in traffic.

Getting Results