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Two practical market research tools for assessing the value of television advertising

This paper is in three parts, to be delivered in turn by the three speakers. First, we comment on the fact that the development of computing and of scanners has revolutionized both market and media research. We point out that the boundary between the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Steve Coffey, Valentine Appel, Timothy Joyce

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1992

The UK reach and frequency model

The basis of a reach and frequency analysis is a count of the number of commercial spots seen by each individual in an advertising schedule. When this analysis is constructed from a people meter panel that reports on a daily basis, the obvious start...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Steve Wilcox

June 15, 1992

Diaries VS people meters

The paper is divided in two parts. The first part compares the data generated by diaries and people meters in Canada. The comparison shows that both ratings systems generate data that is very similar in terms of general viewing behaviour. For...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Stan Staple, Chantal Mayrand

June 15, 1992

Quality methods, quality results! An axiom

Since 1963 the U.S. Committee on Nationwide Television Audience Measurement (CONTAM) has engaged in methodological research. The purpose has been to understand and improve television audience measurement in order to increase the accuracy and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Nicholas P. Schiavone

June 15, 1992

Children and television advertising

This paper will argue that research into the effects of television advertising directed at children’s markets can benefit from being framed within a perspective guided by a more comprehensive understanding of children's cognitive development. A...

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

Authors: Barrie Gunter, Jill McAleer, Brian R. Clifford

June 15, 1992

An overview of the transition from diary-based television audience measurement to people meters in Australia and New Zealand, 1989-1991

This paper reconstructs the history of the introduction of People Meters to Australia and New Zealand during 1989-1991. The rival multinational People Meter operators invested heavily in the race to secure contracts to provide ratings services in the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Terence W. Beed

June 15, 1992

How differences between techniques affect the advertiser in Europe

The map of Europe is deceptively simple as far as TV measurement is concerned. The same technique (a panel equipped with electronic set and people meters) is used in every country, or will be by the end of the year, and only 2 companies, AGB and GFK,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Author: Jane Perry

June 15, 1992

Researching audiences to target audiences... A different type of single source

This paper addresses the subject of how to promote programmes more effectively. It is important to understand at the onset that this paper is not addressing the issue of repeat viewing to programmes or trying to understand or indeed quantify...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: David Brennan, Jeremy Wyndham

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1992

How to save media money in advertising

This is a practical paper which draws extensively from the experience gained over many years of continuously tracking TV advertising campaigns. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate firstly how a new research-based approach can provide new...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Media Research Meets The Future

Author: Bruce E. Smith

June 15, 1992