Any marketer grappling with the complexities of understanding how a multi-media campaign is performing and looking for new insights to drive campaign planning will find this paper of relevance. Researchers will see the power that this type of new holistic approach can bring to them in delivering a rich understanding of how consumers interact with multiple brand touchpoints, together with ROI measures designed to drive the business.
This paper addresses the key issue of how consumers, particularly young adults, perceive new audio entertainment options. It provides insight into how listeners choose their entertainment sources, the language they use to describe these choices, and how media measurement needs to adjust to accommodate these changes. Findings of a set of young adult focus groups and in-home ethnographic interviews are reviewed and results of a field experiment testing revision to the Arbitron radio diary to capture new audio sources are reported
This paper describes the findings of a field test in Belgium whereby radio was measured in a unique nation-wide sample using both the standard 7-day diary system and the GfK Eurisko radiometer with the same individuals. Attention is given to critical issues such as respondent compliance, granularity of the listening sequences, volume of listening and audience by daypart. Finally, the voice of the respondent is also heard.