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A weekly round-up of the industry’s top stories and research curated by the ARF.

NYCU: CTAM’s 2022 Priorities

The Cable Television Administration and Marketing Society (CTAM) has issued a list of their priorities for this year. The list includes — not surprisingly — customer retention and acquisition, but also “content theft.” 
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NYCU: Better TV Measurement and New Currencies

CIMM (The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement) held its 11th Converged TV Measurement and Data Summit on February 16 and 17, 2022. The Summit brought together marketers, media agencies, media companies and vendors to discuss solutions for converged TV measurement, including the emergence of multiple currencies.
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NYCU: The ARF Universe Study of Device and Account Sharing (ARF DASH)

The ARF has completed a rigorous, single-source enumeration study whose purpose is to produce unbiased measures for assigning digital devices, streaming and e-commerce accounts to individuals and households. This includes cross-platform usage, co-viewing patterns, device and account sharing, as well as assigning different devices to the same household. The multimodal study generates a holistic view of capability and usage across digital devices and media, which is useful for estimating universes and addressing biases and gaps in census level data.
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