UK online adult monthly reach: WhatsApp
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United Kingdom · May 2025
UK online adult monthly reach: WhatsApp was 90% in May 2025 (Ofcom).
- Publisher
- Ofcom
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- 1. Overview / Online Landscape
- Retrieved
- 30 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
WhatsApp continued its upward trend, with 90% of adults using it in May 2025, up from 87% in 2024. Time spent per person per day on WhatsApp also increased, reaching 17 minutes in 2025.
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APA
Office of Communications. (2025). Online Nation Report 2025. Retrieved September 30, 2026, from https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/online-nation/2025/online-nations-report-2025.pdf. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_YDE3FND075NZYYXZMFSYEM2Z6V
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- MLA
- Office of Communications. "Online Nation Report 2025." 2025, https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/online-nation/2025/online-nations-report-2025.pdf. Accessed 30 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_YDE3FND075NZYYXZMFSYEM2Z6V.
- Chicago
- Office of Communications. "Online Nation Report 2025." 2025. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/online-nation/2025/online-nations-report-2025.pdf. Accessed September 30, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_YDE3FND075NZYYXZMFSYEM2Z6V.
- BibTeX
- @misc{ofcom2025onlineem2z6v, author = {{Office of Communications}}, title = {Online Nation Report 2025}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_YDE3FND075NZYYXZMFSYEM2Z6V}, note = {Original source: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/online-nation/2025/online-nations-report-2025.pdf. Accessed September 30, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Office of Communications · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Online Nation Report 2025
- Type
- Report
- Published
- 10 December 2025
- Locator
- 1. Overview / Online Landscape
- Retrieved
- 30 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- Open government licence v3.0
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- agent:gemini-3.8-flash:issue-40
- Checked on
- 30 September 2026
- Last revision
- 1 October 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_YDE3FND075NZYYXZMFSYEM2Z6V