In information services, while facing ongoing challenges from industry-wide print advertising, we are successfully transforming to the digital age. With both digital advertising and subscriptions on the rise in this country, in Britain, and Australia. We also have capitalized on the public's growing appetite for quality journalism, especially at a time when so much false information proliferates through social media. Some of the most popular and trusted niches in the world are in our portfolio. To ensure continued progress, we exercise strict financial discipline across the board. We put an emphasis on subscriptions to reduce our reliance on advertising. We constantly innovate through acquisition of digital startups and technological transformations of historic brands. I thank all of our employees, our readers and audiences, advertisers, and investors for helping us deliver another successful year, and we look forward to even greater progress in the years ahead.
I'd now like to call to the podium Robert Thomson, who will have some remarks of his own about the state of our company. Thank you.
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Thank you, Rupert. In these challenging times for some media companies, it is significant that during fiscal 2018, News Corp saw growth in revenues in total segment EBITDA across its businesses. In total, revenues rose 11% to $9 billion, and EBITDA increased by 21% to $1.1 billion. When the new News Corp was launched five years ago, we promised to be increasingly digital and global. It was also crucial for our shareholders that we become more than the sum of our parts. While there is much to accomplish, closer integration among our companies is helping us to realize our potential. The composition of our revenue mix has changed profoundly. These are not contrived concepts but measurable outcomes. Our full-year numbers provide hard evidence of the company's evolution.
This past year, as a result of the combination of Foxtel and Fox Sports Australia, and muscular performances at book publishing and digital real estate services, the new News Corp crossed the billion-dollar threshold in profitability for the first time, as Rupert mentioned. Meanwhile, the international debate led by News Corp on digital provenance has intensified, with Google, YouTube, and Facebook and Amazon under compounding pressure to purge piracy and share the permission data generated by our quality journalism. These companies are conscious that past abusive practices will be untenable, if not illegal, in the future. We are monitoring the evolution closely. It is clear that the dominant algorithms are under increasing scrutiny across the globe. One notable development over the past year is the combination of Foxtel and Fox Sports Australia.
We now control the combined company. With a new leadership team at the helm, the business conspicuously increases the share of subscription revenues in our total revenue composition. At the time of our separation, almost half of News Corp's revenues came from advertising. Today, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018, subscription and other non-advertising revenues exceeded 70%, giving News Corp a healthy foundation for growth and for a deeper relationship with customers. In using information services, we're able to offset print advertising declines through expanding digital revenues. We have seen notable success in subscriber growth at Dow Jones, which crossed the three million subscriber mark in June, with digital now accounting for more than 60% of The Wall Street Journal subscribers. Also, at The Australian and The Times and The Sunday Times, digital subscribers are now more than half of the total subscriber base.
At Dow Jones, there was a solid 7% increase in full-year revenues of the professional information business and a particularly robust performance in risk and compliance. Dow Jones is also working closely with the team at Storyful, whose unique understanding of social media around the world is crucial for companies seeking to avoid becoming reputation roadkill. The New York Post is gathering momentum in a tough tabloid market and is the standout performer in greater New York. Meanwhile, in May, The Sun online topped its primary competitor in the U.K. in the number of unique visitors. Also in Great Britain, Wireless Group saw another strong set of audience figures, in part because of the prowess of our U.K. print and digital platforms in aligning their marketing efforts and the sharing of talent across our properties. In Australia, our team adroitly addressed the cost base, strengthening the business.
The results of that vigilance were reflected in a positive segment EBITDA contribution for the year. As for book publishing, our team at HarperCollins, through their divining of great authors and empathetic curating of manuscripts and clever marketing, ensured notably strong results in fiscal 2018 and saw particularly strong growth, over 50%, in audiobooks. At our fastest-growing segment, digital real estate services, segment revenues rose 22% and segment EBITDA rose 24% for the year. Digital real estate accounted for 37% of our total EBITDA last year, up from only 24% at the time of our reincarnation. At Move, home of realtor.com, real estate revenues for fiscal 2018 grew 20%, with total revenues up a healthy 15% for the year. realtor.com continued to show audience gains and has nearly doubled its revenues since the acquisition by News Corp less than four years ago.
Last month, we completed our acquisition of Opcity. Based in Austin, Texas, Opcity is a market-leading real estate tech platform that matches qualified home buyers and sellers with real estate professionals in real time. With Opcity's U.S. client base of 40,000 realtors, this deepens our engagement with both the realtors and home buyers. Meanwhile, in Australia, REA continued to be an industry leader in audience and innovation in FY 2018, expanding into adjacencies like the mortgage broking business, which has quickly gained traction with 350,000 self-completed financial profiles as of June 30. At the close of this fiscal year, five years since our rebirth as a company, we are proud to honor the traditions of News Corp and look forward with confidence to the future, with a company whose fabric has evolved but whose character endures.
Behind the impressive results of this past year are the people of News Corp, who serve our readers, audiences, advertisers, and partners with verve each day. All have contributed to our success and have laid firm foundations for robust returns for our investors. Thank you.
Thank you, Robert. Before proceeding to the business, I would like to introduce our directors and members of our management. On stage with me are our General Counsel, Mr. David Pitofsky; Chief Executive and Director, Robert Thomson; Co-chairman, Mr. Lachlan Murdoch; Lead Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee, Mr. Peter Barnes; Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, Mr. José María Aznar; and Chairman of the Compensation Committee, Mr. Masroor Siddiqui; and the Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Susan Panuccio. Our directors seated in the front row are Ms. Kelly Ayotte, Ms. Natalie Bancroft, Mr. Joel Klein, and Ms. Ana Paula Pessoa. Mr. James Murdoch was not able to attend and sends his apologies. Also present today are Ms. Krishan and Mr. Hobson of Ernst & Young, the company's independent registered public accounting firm.
In accordance with the company's bylaws, I hereby appoint Mr. Ralph from American Election Services as the Independent Inspector of Election of this annual meeting. This meeting is held pursuant to a notice of annual meeting of stockholders, made available or mailed on or about September the 24th, 2018, to each record holder of the company's common stock as of September the 7th, 2018. A list of stockholders, of record entitled to vote at this meeting has been available for examination at the company's headquarters for the past 10 days, and is available at this meeting as well. All documents concerning the call and notice of this meeting are available here today and will be filed with the records of the meeting.
An Inspector of Election has examined the proxies received and reports that holders of a majority in voting power of all of the outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote are present in person or represented by proxy. Therefore, I hereby declare a quorum present at the meeting. It is now 10:15 A.M. on November 6, 2018. The polls are now open for voting. You do not need to complete a ballot if you voted or returned a proxy before the meeting. Only Class B common stockholders of record and valid proxy holders can vote at this meeting. Those of you who requested a ballot so that you could vote in person were provided with a ballot when you entered the meeting. If you wish to cast a ballot now, please raise your hand and a company representative will collect your ballot for tabulation.
You will have an opportunity to ask questions after all matters being submitted to stockholders for a vote are presented. Please hold your questions until that time. We have three items on the agenda. The first matter to be acted upon by the stockholders is proposal one, the election of directors. The board has nominated the following individuals to serve as directors: Lachlan Murdoch, Robert Thomson, Kelly Ayotte, José María Aznar, Natalie Bancroft, Peter Barnes, Joel Klein, James Murdoch, Ana Paula Pessoa, Masroor Siddiqui, and myself. If elected, these director nominees will each serve a one-year term expiring at the 2019 annual meeting or until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. Proposal two is for the ratification of the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.
Proposal three is an advisory vote to approve executive compensation. The preliminary report of the Inspector of Election reflects that more than the majority of the eligible votes cast are being voted for the election of each of the director nominees for the ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as the company's independent registered public accounting firm, and for the advisory approval of executive compensation. Thank you very much for your support. We'll report the final results of the meeting in an SEC filing shortly. At this time, any stockholder, proxy holder, or qualified representative who wishes to ask a question relating to any of these proposals or regarding the business operations of the company should proceed to the microphone and present the yellow admission ticket that you received when you came today. Before asking your question, please state your name and affiliation.
We ask that you comply with the rules and procedures for conduct of the meeting so that we can conduct an orderly meeting. Go ahead.
Oh, hi. My name's John Lindsay. I'm a shareholder. First, I want to say thank you for pushing back against these tech giants and their bludging leeches, if I can use that sort of terminology.
Can you speak up a bit?
Yeah. They're bludging leeches. Anyway, thank you so much. What I wanted to say was, we seem to be morphing into a hybrid news media/real estate company. If we don't merge with New Fox, will we go for acquisitions in the future? I know you can't talk about that. Do you see any sort of media acquisitions coming down the line?
No, we're always on the lookout. I wouldn't say never. If something we think would be beneficial, we'll go ahead. We've nothing of an enormous nature in sight. We keep adding small things for digital.
Yeah. I just wanted to ask one more question. Do you think you'll ever see a day where you don't print the newspapers, and they'll all be digital?
No, I think that print, particularly the quality of papers, is here for a long time. Sure, in some we're fighting decline. Papers like The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Australian, are holding very well. Australian may be up for unprint. It's going on, but it's a long way to go. Thank you. Yes, go ahead.
James Patterson, Mr. Chairman, stockholder. Congratulations on the success of the corporation over the past year and continuing. I urge you to aggressively monetize the legalization of sports betting in the U.S. and like to hear the corporation's plans on doing that, if you could share those with us. I also have here a column in the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who says that Fox News is a source of unbridled hate in America, and that the corporation is monetizing hate and violence and profiting from this. He's mentioning the corporate executives, the on-air talent. The implication is board members, stockholders, viewers, everybody associated with Fox News. I'd like to hear your response to this. These charges being made here are outrageous, are slander against the board, the corporation, its stockholders, and this is outrageous.
It's been going on. I'd like to give this to you if you haven't seen it, but I'd like to hear what the corporation's response to this. It's outrageous to say that everybody associated with Fox News is profiting from hate and the source of hate and violence in our country. Thank you.
Thank you. Well, of course, News Corp has nothing to do with Fox News. Some of us are certainly directors of Fox as well, and I say we're very proud of Fox News. Its news is fair and balanced. It has commentators who tend to be, not all, but tend to be conservative. That's true. If you're looking for hate, look at some other news channels. They're no longer news, just participants, activists. No, we're fine about Fox. We'll stand up for Fox News anywhere. It's got a huge audience, which is doing very well. That's part of Fox, not this company. Washington. Robert, you have a question?
On sports betting-
Yes
I think obviously it's a little early to speculate. I think you're exactly right that it opens up all sorts of opportunities, but as in sport, we must play to our strengths.
Yes, sir.
Philip Berman, portfolio manager and shareholder. Just a few comments to put things in perspective for both companies. For decades now, Rupert Murdoch Fox has been the leader in the entertainment and media business. Fox was the first to develop the longest-running animated The Simpsons TV show. When it was 20th Century Fox, Rupert was the first to put on the big screen the first Marvel comic book character, which always garnered high box office receipts. For decades, 20th Century Fox produced some of the most acclaimed, popular, endearing TV series. It is highly noteworthy that 20th Century Fox produced the first film to gross more than $1 billion at the box office, namely "Avatar.
No, "Titanic" was the first.
Okay. Well, if you count the foreign sales. It is interesting to see that these eclectic Fox assets have now been sold to the Disney-branded empire. In addition, now we have finally Rupert's dream to be complete with Rupert and Lachlan working together at the Fox empire, the new Fox empire. In closing, nobody does it like Rupert Murdoch. Looking forward, the newly reminted Fox assets are the best in the business and are strategically well-positioned for the future. We're moving back more towards our roots. We all love Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan too.
Thank you very much. Your comments are very welcome, although not much to do with News Corporation, thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Are there any other ballots that need to be collected? No. It's now 10:25 on November the 6th, 2018. The polls are now closed. Concludes the business described in the notice of meeting. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you very, very much, everybody.