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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 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

A single-source multimedia study

Using a television diary survey sample as the base, additional information on readership of individual newspapers and magazines and visits to specific websites was collected by means of a return to sample telephone interview. This paper concentrates...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Terry Rushbrook, Paul Street

June 9, 2002

TV viewing patterns in Internet access homes

The main objective of this paper is to provide new information on the viewing patterns in homes with Internet access. Only the panel methodology is capable of supplying longitudinal information and when more people meter-based results are published,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Author: Heikki J. Kasari

June 9, 2002

The MRC minimum standards

This paper explains the use of the MRC (Media Rating Council) Minimum Standards as evaluation criteria for different types of media measurement including the special consideration given before using them for site centric measurement.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference Worldwide Online Measurement 2001

Authors: George Ivie, Nick Terlizzi

Company: Ernst and Young Services Pty Ltd

June 1, 2001

Certainty in a virtual world- Dream o reality?

Since 1996 the global interactive media industry has been striving to demonstrate accountability. Similarly in 1930 print media advertisers began to insist on independent measurement of circulation. They were also working on early versions of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference Worldwide Online Measurement 2001

Author: Richard Foan

June 1, 2001

Mixed research techniques for a mixed economy

The paper describes the changes in the radio market and explores the implications for joint industry measurement in the future. The main issues that must be considered in setting out the scope of the measurement solution are outlined, and the main...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Radio 2001

Authors: Tony Twyman, Chris Mundy

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

April 1, 2001

Audiometer* measurement

The “audiometer”*, a generic term perhaps preferable to “radiometer” given its applications equally to TV as for radio audience measurement, offers the marketplace a major technological advance in the measurement of broadcast...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Radio 2001

Author: Peter Menneer

April 1, 2001

Is there still a place for non-electronic measurement?

This paper focuses on two aspects of the radio measurement problem: the environment in which the study is carried out and the characteristics of the methodologies developed and tested by researchers in Poland and elsewhere. In the first part of the...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Radio 2001

Authors: Marcin Kujawski, Zbigniew Sawiñski, Andrzej Matuszyñski

April 1, 2001