readership

[ ree-der-ship ]

noun

1. the people who read or are thought to read a particular book, newspaper, magazine, etc.:

   The periodical has a dwindling readership.

2. the duty, status, or profession of a reader.
3. (especially in British universities) the position of instructor or lecturer.
4. the state or quality of being a reader:

   appealing to a higher level of readership.

readership

/ ˈriːdəʃɪp /

noun

1. all the readers collectively of a particular publication or author

   a readership of five million

   Dickens's readership

2. the office, position, or rank of university reader

Word History and Origins

Origin of readership¹

First recorded in 1710–20; reader + -ship

Example Sentences

Online publications often have much higher readerships than traditional media outlets, and as such digital public relations support increased visibility of your brand.

From Search Engine Watch

We’re a nonprofit, reliant primarily on donations instead of ad revenue, so we don’t chase pageviews and readership.

From ProPublica

Protocol president Tammy Wincup would not disclose the publication’s financials from the end of its first year, but said that the publication’s total readership for 2020 consisted of more than 7 million uniques viewers.

From Digiday

The Collective’s demographics are similar to that of the company’s overall readership.

From Digiday

That then enabled her team to act on those behaviors and reach record readership.

From Digiday

Yet without money, without access, and without readership, that history McMillan seems intent on making will be absent.

From The Daily Beast

Its readership expands in times when more of us need its particular brand of salve.

From The Daily Beast

It has existed, over its long history, in both expanded and contracted states in terms of its readership.

From The Daily Beast

Its contracted readership has not discouraged a larger group, maybe more than ever before, from writing it.

From The Daily Beast

And as its influence and readership expands, the paper is feeling the wrath of Hollywood mega-stars.

From The Daily Beast

In 1876 he returned to Oxford, where from 1883 to 1893 he held the university readership in Latin.

From Project Gutenberg

In the present day the readership is purely honorary and without duties.

From Project Gutenberg

After lecturing at the University of Toulouse he appeared in Paris in 1581, where he held an extraordinary readership.

From Project Gutenberg

The office of readership to this society had been offered to Cowper, but was declined by him.

From Project Gutenberg

It seemed that a heretofore unsuspected contingent of her growing readership was substantially obese.

From Project Gutenberg