Media Rating Council’s George Ivie: Cross-Media Standards By Early 2018

The early 1960’s were interesting times for radio and television, as Congress considered regulating audience research. How simple those days must seem now that the Media Rating Council—formed as the media industry’s self-regulating body—has tackled cross-media audience measurement. This becomes more evident when one considers that the MRC is still dealing with standards for digital […]

 
 

Disney-ABC’s Brian West: TV Measurement Must Be Platform-Agnostic

When is good enough not good enough? For Brian West, it describes the current state of measuring viewing audiences on mobile and connected-television devices. “There still is this tendency to prioritize measurement on desktop and kind of treat mobile and connected TV as also-rans in the measurement space,” says West, who is Director, Multiplatform Research, […]

 
 

comScore Tracking TV Viewing Data in 35 Million Home with Charter/Spectrum Agreement

If bigger is better for companies like Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable, it’s also a boon to cross-platform measurement providers like comScore. Often overlooked by headlines heralding the continued merging of cable providers are the gains made in tracking consumer behavior and the ability to match it with product and service consumption—benefitting both programmers […]