Gallup states that Americans’ confidence in institutions has been lacking for most of the past 15 years. Moreover, their trust in key institutions hit a new low this year, with significant declines for 11 of the 16 institutions tested, and no improvements for any of them.
Newspapers are closing in the U.S. at the rate of about two per week, showing the pandemic-fueled, local-news crisis continues. Read more »
Some ads play on streaming services even when the TV is off because of a lack of communication between TV sets and streaming devices. It causes an estimated waste of over $1 billion in ad dollars.
Disney+ is joining other companies by announcing limited commercial loads on streaming services. They are even going a step further.
While Wall Street is focused on Netflix’ subscriber decline, and some speculate that this indicates the end of streaming’s rise, new research from HUB finds that, while there are challenges, the shift to streaming has not slowed down. Read more »
Several industry organizations – the ARF’s subsidiary CIMM, the ANA and the 4A’s — are working together to navigate and support the transition to a multi-currency TV market. Read more »
This live panel featured the presenters from the New Methods to Validate Audience Estimates track, with moderator Megan Margraff of Oracle following up on key points involving alternate data currencies, data harmonization and normalization, fragmentation challenges and advanced targeting in TV and CPG.
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Integrating linear TV in cross-platform measurement was a challenge undertaken in a partnership between Lucid and Samba TV utilizing ACR (automatic content recognition) and STB (set-top box) data matched to survey responses. Stephanie Gall (Lucid) and Karen Biedermann (Samba) shared details on the inherent problems, potential solutions and biggest learnings from this integration.
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Programming researchers are not getting the data they need to make informed decisions and Joan FitzGerald (Data ImpacX) uses streaming’s complex ecosystem to explain the conundrum facing programmers. Key insights into monetization and performance are not supported despite the inundation of new forms of data, leaving programmers without a comprehensive picture of their audience. Together with Michael McGuire at MSA, Joan outlined a methodology funnel that combined 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data to create equivalized metrics that, once leveraged, could meet critical programming research demands.
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