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First experiences of harmonized TV ratings in Latin America

The harmonization criteria regarding TV measurement across countries is now a reality in Latin America with a pan-regional TV rating database in its first stage with Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico audiences. The objective of this paper is not...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Luisa Fernanda Streber, Boris Pauzner, Carlos Alberto Huaira Contreras

Company: IBOPE Inteligencia

June 9, 2002

Heuristic algorithms as a basis for intelligent meters

The author has conducted analyses of viewing patterns among respondents within households in a test panel of peoplemeter households in the United States, investigating how predictable and habitual viewing behavior is within a household. Pattern...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Author: Paul J. Donato

Company: Nielsen

June 9, 2002

Trash and treasures of duplication

This paper presents early cross-media results from Arbitron's 2002 portable people meter (PPM) panel in the Philadelphia (United States) market. Previous results from the small-scale PPM panel in Wilmington (Delaware) in 2001 suggested important...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Roberta M. McConochie, Beth Uyenco

Companies: Nielsen, OMD Group

June 9, 2002

Pushing picture matching to the limit

This paper provides a summary of BBM Canada's picture matching experience over the last four years. The authors focus on how well picture matching compares with DFM, how multimatching is handled, the problem of unmatched viewing, picture matching's...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Ken Purdye, Pasquale A. Pellegrini

June 9, 2002

Quality control of TV peoplemeter panels

It is particularly difficult to control the quality of the results obtained by the peoplemeter panels. Even though the technical resources to carry out a real control exist, no peoplemeter panel operator has so far used a simple system, known as the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Joseph Khoury, Hugues Chavenon

June 9, 2002

The end of measurement as we know it?

This paper examines the problems and pitfalls of today's sample-based media measurement services with particular reference to television. The author suggests that sample-based measurement is rapidly becoming defunct in its ability to reflect what is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Author: Andrew Green

Company: OMD Group

June 9, 2002

The Mediacabsat over-sample

In September 2000 the Cable and Satellite Committee and the French Cable and Satellite Channels Association (ACCeS) decided to launch Mediacabsat, the new audience measurement system for the new thematic programme generation. Until this time,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Author: Gildas Roy

Company: Mediametrie

June 9, 2002

Pathways to measuring consumer behavior in an age of media convergence

The television medium is in the early stages of re-invention fostered by applications of digital technology, which have the potential to fundamentally change the way brands are marketed as consumers begin interacting with content. As such, tomorrow's...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Stacey Lynn Koerner, David Ernst, Henry Jenkins, Alex Chisholm

June 9, 2002

The ROI ratio

The authors recently analyzed the audience delivery patterns of sixty different media schedules each comprising three media elements - one primetime network television program, one national consumer magazine and one national consumer website. The...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Craig T. Gugel, Cheryl Idell

June 9, 2002