The speeches are not a channel for news, but are a way to explain and elaborate on the Bank's policy decisions or its advice to other government bodies. Their primary purpose is to disseminate knowledge about the Norges Bank's core activities and its management of the Government Pension Fund Global.

A number of the speeches discuss and elaborate on key aspects of the Bank's activities, in such areas as monetary policy, financial stability and the payment system.

Norges Bank also publishes charts that accompany speeches made without a set text. Unlike speeches where the text is published, charts accompanying unpublished speeches will be deleted from the website after a period of time.