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Better television audience measurement through cable and satellite set top boxes

Digital set top boxes (DSTBs) offer broadcasters, agencies and advertisers a potential measurement technology and sample size to provide set tuning data, virtually down to the second, for even the most fragmented TV markets based on what eventually...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Bill Harvey, Russ Booth, Tony Jarvis

June 9, 2002

Digivolving digital kids

This paper demonstrates how, in an increasingly competitive and cluttered media marketplace, sophisticated audience research can work with and compliment marketing strategy in order to pinpoint targets, minimise wastage and identify growth...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Shari Donnenfeld, Caroline Dukes

June 9, 2002

Effect of short time viewing patterns on ratings and shares

There is a special type of convergence between TV and the Internet. With an increasing number of channels the process of search in TV becomes more similar to the process of search in the Internet. The criterion of 'stickiness' therefore becomes more...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Author: Bernhard Engel

June 9, 2002

ITV - Worth measuring?

One could argue that it is not possible to measure the audience of a new medium until that medium - and hence, an audience for it - actually exists. In the United States, buyers and sellers of interactive media have estimated audiences for...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Robert J. Burgess, Maritza DiSciullo

June 9, 2002

Who's watching my ADS?

This paper looks at the results of a study on quality of viewing (in terms of level of attention to program), and how this data can be used to improve the efficiency of real world media planning.

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2002: Television

Authors: Brian Rock, Robert Chard

June 9, 2002

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