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Over the last few years the service provided by BARB has been through a number of significant developments to deliver independent, objective and transparent measurement of the range of broadcast and streaming services being viewed today. In this interview Justin Sampson, CEO of BARB, outlines to our Research Director, Richard… Read more

Radioplayer has recently celebrated its 10th anniversary so it seems like a good time to take a look at the journey it has been on in this time. In this asiCast Matt Deegan, Director of Folder Media, talks to Mike Hill, Radioplayer’s founder and Managing Director. Radioplayer is a radio… Read more

There has been enormous interest in recent years in the development of podcasts, and Podcast Day 24 on June 7th looks to provide a wide range of insights into what has been happening around the world. Starting in Australia before moving to Europe and finally the US, the event has… Read more

The way in which TV airtime is traded has remained pretty much the same for many years even though we know that viewing habits have altered dramatically. A recent report TV Advertising – Evolving the Model conducted by Enders Analysis suggested that this needed to change to ensure ‘it remains… Read more

There is no doubt that the research industry has been transformed over the last few decades by rapid developments in technology. Where market research was once characterised by interviewers with clipboards asking people questions, it has now been transformed into an industry driven by modern tech and the internet. It’s… Read more

What are the challenges facing advertisers as they look to emerge from the pandemic? John Broome, CEO of the Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) talks with Ian Garland, Managing Director of the analysis and data management consultancy in Australia, Milton Data. Most of John’s members are now in post-crisis… Read more

It’s been a long time coming, but the TMAM decision has finally been made and agreed and we now know what the combined measurement system in the Netherlands is going to look like. We’re very grateful to Johan Smit, Director of Platform Media Adviesbureaus (PMA), who has been driving this… Read more

It has been widely accepted over the last few years that consumers feel advertising is a nuisance. It insists upon an unpleasant and increasingly intrusive presence in their lives and is something to be avoided if possible. Online advertising has contributed to this enormously, with the interruptions to people’s browsing… Read more

Although Netflix has been burdened with huge debt, Guy Bisson, a Director of Ampere Analysis, predicted some while ago that eventually an inflexion point would be reached when revenue would exceed expenditure. In this asiCast, our Research Director Richard Marks explores with Guy the significance of this landmark and the… Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this latest in our series of interviews looking at how the audience measurement community is responding to the challenges faced in maintaining media currency research during the COVID-19 crisis, our Research Director Richard Marks talks to Andrew Green, Global Head of Business Development, Audience Measurement at Ipsos. Andrew and… Read more

Rolf Müller, GfK’s Global Business Development Director for Media Measurement, speaks to us about the challenges GfK has been facing across the markets it services for both television and radio audience measurement. This series of interviews has focussed on the research companies’ perspective where, in addition to Rolf’s views, we… Read more

In this interview in our series looking at how the industry is coping during the lockdown period, we talk with Andy Brown, Global CEO and Chairman of Kantar’s Media Division. Andy discusses with Richard Marks the different challenges faced across each of the markets Kantar’s services cover and considers how… Read more

As part of our series of interviews with people engaged with audience measurement research during this difficult period we spoke with Toni Petra, EVP of Nielsen Watch. Toni talks about the issues Nielsen has encountered in its various markets in maintaining the industry currencies for which it is responsible. She… Read more

The widespread lock-downs most countries are experiencing are presenting serious difficulties for all sectors of the economy. We thought it would be useful to contact colleagues in a number of markets to see how they were coping in providing reliable audience measurement data in these circumstances, and to publish their… Read more

A few weeks ago Karen Nelson-Field of Amplified Intelligence was in London to launch her book The Attention Economy and Brian Jacobs, Founder and CEO of BJ&A, interviewed her for us. In a post of his regular blog, Brian also wrote about a number of developments involving attention as a… Read more

As we all try to adjust to the impact COVID-19 is making on our working lives, we thought we would have a chat to Bob Hoffman to cheer us up in these gloomy times. In this asiCast, Brian Jacobs talks to the Ad Contrarian about how the current pandemic is… Read more

Earlier this month we reported on the new contract for UK Online Measurement (UKOM) that has been awarded to Ipsos. We suggested at the time that this could play a significant role in any moves towards development of cross-media measurement – not least because a single-source multi-device panel will provide… Read more

In this asiCast Brian Jacobs of BJ&A talks to Lindsey Clay, CEO of Thinkbox, about its work as the marketing body for commercial television in the UK and the origins and role of the Global TV Group she was instrumental in putting together and of which she is President. The… Read more

As the centenary edition of our occasional series of podcasts approached, we decided an appropriate way to celebrate was to provide listeners with an insight into the early days of asi. To that end our Research Director Richard Marks interviewed Mike Sainsbury, the founder of the company, to ask about… Read more