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Consumer usage patterns of the Internet and traditional media

This paper compares and contrasts consumer usage patterns of the Internet and traditional media across the top fifty markets in the United States. While interest in the Internet is high, most surveys describe the Internet user in general terms. This...

Catalogue: Seminar 1998: Towards Total Communications Strategies

Author: Jane H. Mulligan

October 20, 1998

Getting those respondents involved!

Because of the large sample sizes, the variety of market conditions, and the variety of methods used by Arbitron in syndicated audience measurement in the United States, the authors have had a rich opportunity to conduct rigorous experimentation in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Authors: David Lapovsky, Robert H. Patchen

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1998

Projecting the television audience in the digital future

This paper describes the results of a telephone survey of adults regarding their awareness of digital television and preferences for services that digital television could provide in the United States. The survey results provide guidance for...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Author: Janice J. Jones

June 15, 1998

Metering television in the digital age

This paper provides an overview of the impact on measuring television audiences due to the market’s transition to digital television (DTV) in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has mandated that the transition will...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Authors: Barry Cook, Edgar Aust

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1998

The myth of king super Midas

The United States trails most of the advertising world in the use of optimizers, the author believes, because of the complexity of its TV market with literally hundreds of suppliers and rapidly changing costs. But it is this very complexity that...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Author: Erwin Ephron

June 15, 1998

What customers want

With the major trends in the automotive industry pointing towards increased consumer power, the ability of manufacturers to satisfy customers is, more than ever, a pre-requisite for success. As manufacturers struggle to differentiate their products...

Catalogue: Seminar 1996: Building Brand Identity In The Auto Industry

Author: David Sargent

Company: JD Power

June 15, 1996

Retailer response to environmental and competitive changes in the United States

The continued growth of the superstore and super chains has created chaos in the U.S. retailing markets. It has particularly taken its toll on the more traditional retail chains and at the same time created severe problems for manufacturers...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Facing Up To The Challenges In Retailing

Authors: David J. Rachman, Cesar M. Malolcs

June 15, 1995

American public television in the 500 channel environment: A discussion of current research

Everyday, it seems, we hear new prognostications about what the information super highway, the 500 channel environment and interactive digital compressed optical fiber portend for the future of broadcasting. American Public Television went through a...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: David J. Leroy, Barbara I. Gordon, Patricia A. Harris

May 1, 1994

Reversing trends: Children and consumption

Everyone is aware that the lives of American children in the last decade of the Twentieth Century differ in many ways from those of previous generations, particularly the lives of the famous "Baby Boom" generation. Baby Boomers grew up in the social...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Children And Young People- Are They The New Consumers?

Author: Albert J. Yesk

June 15, 1992