Latest Industry News & Comment
Posted by asi on 12th January 2021
Recent research conducted by Craft has cast some light onto the size and characteristics of the emerging esport audience. Our Research Director, Richard Marks, spoke with the agency’s Founder, Konrad Collao, about the insights that were gathered. Whilst esports is of interest to Craft as a cultural phenomenon, its growth… Read more
Posted by asi on 15th December 2020
Our Virtual Conference at the beginning of November was a huge success and very well received by record numbers from around the world. We continue to hope that we will all be able to meet again at a physical venue in 2021 but, in the meantime, we give you these… Read more
Posted by asi on 15th December 2020
It’s been a tough year for everyone, so here’s a bit of fun to get you in a festive spirit before the Christmas break…
Posted by asi on 27th November 2020
In this asiCast our Research Director Richard Marks speaks with David Raybould, Chief Operating Officer of TRP, about its survey of SVOD viewing in the UK. Broadcasters, content distributors and rights owners are increasingly interested in the granular measurement of SVOD content at the series and episode level across all… Read more
Posted by Richard Marks at asi on 12th November 2020
Over the last three decades, asi has been providing an important forum in which all parts of the industry – media owners, advertisers, agencies and research providers – can come together to discuss the future direction of measurement. This was particularly apparent on the Friday 6th November session of our… Read more
Posted by asi on 19th October 2020
Details of the agendas for each session of the 2020 asi Virtual Conference are now released and can be seen below. We are hosting five two-hour sessions across five days (Monday 2nd to Friday 6th November 2020) starting at 09:30 (London time) each day, and will release additional material (video… Read more
Posted by asi on 24th September 2020
The long-awaited WFA Guidelines for cross-media measurement have now been released into the public domain after an extended period of consultation. Project Origin is the UK initiative led by the ISBA which aims to put these guidelines into practice. Launched last November at our annual International Television & Video Conference… Read more
Posted by Vivienne Kelly at Radio Today on 22nd September 2020
The radio industry’s peak body Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) has confirmed that the upcoming ratings data in Melbourne has been obtained 100% from e-diaries, with paper diaries playing no role due to COVID-19 restrictions and the associated lockdowns. Radio ratings were paused in April due to the difficulties of getting… Read more
Press release from the WFA on 17th September 2020
UK and US to lead implementation following international peer review WFA has unveiled an advertiser-centric Framework for cross-media measurement – the “holy grail” for marketers – accompanied by a proposed solution, designed to give advertisers a much greater understanding of the reach and frequency of their advertising efforts. The Proposal… Read more
Posted by asi on 16th September 2020
Our virtual event for November this year is taking shape. This will give our community the opportunity to link up and share work and ideas before what we hope will be a more normal gathering in 2021. We will be hosting five two-hour sessions across five days (Monday 2nd to… Read more
Posted by asi on 14th July 2020
Professor Karen Nelson-Field has spoken to asi a couple of times before about her pioneering work measuring attention, most recently at the launch of her book immediately before lockdown (see asiCast 105). In this follow-up interview, available as both an audio and video podcast, she talks to Brian Jacobs of BJ&A about… Read more
Posted by asi on 9th June 2020
To coincide with the launch of our series of videos looking at the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on media measurement, we teamed up with ESOMAR to conduct two ‘Community Circle’ meetings for different time zones via Microsoft Teams on 19th May. We were delighted to have over 230 people… Read more
Posted by asi on 2nd June 2020
The recent report into transparency in the programmatic supply chain by a team from PwC for the ISBA provoked much comment. In this asiCast Brian Jacobs, CEO and Founder of BJ&A speaks with Steve Pollack, Head of Media Comms at Nestlé, UK and Ireland. Nestlé, of course, was one of… Read more
Posted by asi on 20th May 2020
Over the last few weeks we have conducted a series of interviews with those responsible for maintaining media industry currencies around the world. There were video interviews with 18 senior executives responsible for the television and radio currencies across 10 countries whilst those we interviewed from the major measurement research… Read more
Posted by asi on 14th May 2020
In this asiCast our Research Director Richard Marks interviews Chris Mundy, who recently joined RSMB as CEO. RSMB is a data integration specialist and was an attractive opportunity for Chris who sees the increasing importance of statistics and data science as developments that reassert the company’s essential purpose. Perhaps best… Read more
Posted by asi on 13th May 2020
On Tuesday 19th May asi will convene a one-hour online webinar as part of ESOMAR’s Community Circles initiative focused on evaluating the impact of the current crisis. There is no need to register for the event – simply click on the link provided either on the ESOMAR site or below. The… Read more