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Identifying, tracking and targeting viewer segments

The authors utilized the Nielsen Quadrant Segmentation System to create audience analysis tool that evaluates television network programming strategy by day part, such that the four segmentations of the Nickelodeon audience are isolated for on-going...

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

Authors: Bruce Friend, Bill Engel

Company: Viacom International Media Networks

June 15, 1998

Measuring small audiences

This paper identifies the different ways in which media developments lead to ever smaller audiences being examined within people meter systems. The consequent unreliability of much people meter data is assessed and strategies proposed for dealing...

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

Authors: Tony Twyman, Steve Wilcox

June 15, 1998

Metering systems

This paper briefly describes the technological philosophy and approach of the AGB Italia Group in the development of the TVMonitor series of people meters, and covers the technological capabilities of the TVM2 and the various interfaces used in...

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

Author: Antonella Petra

June 15, 1998

The Indian dilemma

Currently there are two national people meter systems being developed in India: a joint venture between the Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) and AC Nielsen; and ORG-MARG (The Marketing and Research Group). The joint venture between IMRB and AC...

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

Authors: Julie Petersen, Tanuka Roy

June 15, 1998

Peoplemeters in non-telephone homes

In 1994 only 37% of households in Poland were equipped with a telephone. Surveys conducted before setting up a peoplemeter panel showed substantial differences between telephone and non-telephone bones in terms of their social structure, TV equipment...

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

Author: Stanislaw Bebenek

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

Your repertoire or mine?

Because of the increasing number of channels available to subscribers in the pay TV environment in South Africa, including niche channels, information on viewing habits with regard to cross channel-viewing becomes important. This paper focuses on...

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

Author: Heather Kennedy

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 sniffer concept and its possibilities in data collection

The paper describes working principles of the new equipment, the “Sniffer”, a singular conceptual update of old people meter systems that solves some emergent problems of TV audience measurement, mainly those related to the diversity of the...

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

Authors: Luiz Antonio Silveira Motta, Ana Lucia D' Imperio Lima

Company: IBOPE Inteligencia

June 15, 1998