The ISBA has released a statistical report on the latest stage of Project Origin’s testing of the WFA-supported VID concept for cross-media measurement. This latest test has been conducted by RSMB using the UK Compass panel that Ipsos runs for the BBC. This has been used as a proxy for… Read more
Nielsen recently announced a move from average ad break ratings to actual spot ratings. In this interview with Kimberly Gilberti, SVP Product Manager at Nielsen, our Research Director, Richard Marks, asks how broadcast TV ratings are calculated in the US currently and what exactly does this change involve? Many countries,… Read more
Having been one of the companies selected by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to conduct a trial to meet the WFA’s North Star ambitions in the US, Comscore’s Chief Research Officer, Michael Vinson, talks to asi’s Research Director, Richard Marks, about the trial. What does it involve and what… Read more
asi’s Research Director, Richard Marks, reflects on the main themes to have emerged from this year’s event and the challenges ahead For five three-hour sessions spread across the week of 1-5 November, over 300 media professionals from 43 countries gathered virtually to discuss and debate the present and future shape… Read more
The media measurement community in the US has been in a certain amount of turmoil in recent weeks. In this asiCast our Research Director, Richard Marks, asks Jane Clarke, Managing Director of the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM), to explain some of the reasons for this. CIMM has been… Read more
Key trends in the UK media sector This is Ofcom’s fourth annual Media Nations report, a research report for industry, policymakers, academics and consumers. In the UK the media regulator Ofcom has just published its annual Media Nations report. The main objectives of the report are to review key trends… Read more
A significant development has been announced in the UK, with commercial TV broadcasters collaborating to develop Sky’s CFlight as an industry-wide campaign evaluation tool, providing advertisers consistent, accurate measurement across all platforms and all types of viewing. There has already been a great deal of interest from broadcasters in many… Read more
There has been a great deal of interest in levels of attention paid to advertising in recent months. Much of the session devoted to advertising at our annual International Television & Video Conference last November was devoted to it when the question was raised as to whether, beyond exposure, it… Read more