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In this asiCast we invited Paul Kennedy, RAJAR’s Research Director, to talk with Stacey Goers, Senior Product Manager, Podcasts at NPR (National Public Radio) in the States. Paul discusses with Stacey RAD, (Remote Audio Data) the ground-breaking solution for podcast measurement she has been closely involved in developing over the… Read more

In this asiCast interview our Research Director, Richard Marks, talks with Jane Clarke,  Managing Director of CIMM (the Coalition for Innovative Media Management) in the US. Television attribution is a relatively new data science discipline that started in digital media measurement with Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) – but TV hasn’t always… Read more

Shortly after the announcement that the BBC and ITV were planning to launch their SVOD product Britbox, Richard Marks spoke with Nigel Walley, CEO of Decipher, about the project. It offers the best of British television (from the BBC and ITV) and the interview outlines the history behind the project.… Read more

At the heart of publishing is the curation of information and whether the industry survives depends upon the type and quality of the information provided and the extent to which people will continue to be prepared to pay for it. In this interview Colin Morrison, publisher of the highly regarded… Read more

Many publishers regard Facebook and other social media as essential for extending their reach to audiences around the world. These news aggregating services are increasingly popular to consumers as a source. However, this extended reach comes at a cost to publishers as content is credited to the platform and attribution… Read more

Lumen has for a number of years used eye tracking to measure and predict visual engagement. This attention-tracking data was originally developed to help advertisers optimise their creative work but has now been developed to help assess the attention value of different media. In this asiCast Richard Marks speaks with… Read more

Rooted very much in the magazine business, FIPP was initially set up as an opportunity for publishers to meet. In recent years it has evolved into an organisation that delivers knowledge and shares best practice across a wide range of media organisations with a cross-border international focus. You can gain… Read more

Kantar recently published the latest iteration of its Dimensions research, which sets out to provide an overview of the changing attitudes of online, connected consumers over time. A mix of qualitative and quantitative data, the study seeks to establish key consumer trends and concerns across China, the US, Brazil and… Read more

In September, asi will be launching the International Publishing & Data Conference. This will sit alongside the International Radio & Audio and Television & Video Conferences we have been organising annually over the last 28 years. The conference is a development of the widely respected Publisher and Data Research Forum… Read more

In early April, BARB, the UK’s Television audience measurement currency, issued an RFP inviting tenders for two of its main research contracts. Drawing on priorities identified by its stakeholders and taking account of responses to its regular user survey, BARB’s CEO Justin Sampson outlines to our Research Director Richard Marks… Read more

Ten years ago, UK Online Measurement (UKOM) was established by the marketing community to set standards for online measurement across PCs, tablets and smartphones. It was felt there was a need to respond to the conflicting claims and counterclaims made by any number of players in the market, each of… Read more

Last year a consortium came together to explore the challenges and opportunities facing the European television industry with particular reference to audience measurement, metrics and data. The consortium comprised Adobe Advertising Cloud, Alphonso, Sky and TVbeat and was supported by the egta (the European trade association for television and radio… Read more

In this last of our special series of asiCasts our Research Director Richard Marks continues his attempts to bring some clarity and definition to terms we use regularly in the media and communications industry. Here, in discussion with a number of industry thought leaders, Richard considers whether mobile should be… Read more

This is the third asiCast in our series looking at what we mean by the terms we use when addressing issues of vital significance to all involved in the media and communications industry. This time, our Research Director Richard Marks discusses with our group of industry experts definitions of the… Read more

One of the frustrations felt by many who regularly attend our International Conferences is how the audience measurement community – and the wider marketing, advertising and communications industry – struggle to define the issues they are trying to settle. Language matters and the need to arrive at a common understanding… Read more

The development of hybrid measurement – combining digital census data with panel data – has made steady progress over the last few years and this progress has been tracked at our annual International Television & Video conference. In looking forward to the session he will be chairing at this year’s… Read more

At last year’s asi conferences in Nice, Bob Hoffman (aka The AdContrarian), David Wheldon, President of the WFA and Andy Brown, Chairman and CEO of Kantar Media, discussed some of the challenges faced by advertisers and media agencies in the administration of their online spend and relations with the new… Read more

How can audience measurement specialists and data analysts work together to ensure video measurement is fit for purpose? In this asiCast our Research Director Richard Marks discusses this with Eija Moisala, Head of Smart Data and Audience Insights at the Finnish public broadcaster YLE. On the audience measurement side there… Read more

As the technologies transforming all communications have converged, we need to revise our understanding of viewing behaviours. In this asiCast, our Research Director Richard Marks discusses with Nigel Walley, CEO of the Decipher consultancy, the challenges we face as an industry to find the language to pick our way through… Read more

When our Research Director Richard Marks caught up with Zach Fuller, an analyst at MIDiA, he was curious to know what the hot topics currently concerning the music industry were. They all come down to streaming. There remain a lot of unanswered questions following the revenue switch from sales to… Read more

Interest in sport in general is not that high in Russia, but the excitement generated by the World Cup this summer transformed attitudes. Very many people who knew nothing about football became passionate fans. With all games broadcast live, most watched on TV but there were many who watched live… Read more

Just a few days ago an eagerly awaited document was available for download. On July 2nd the organisations responsible for media research in the Netherlands issued a request for proposals to be submitted for the design and execution of an entirely new media audience measurement. This integrated audience measurement contract… Read more

The second year of Kantar Media’s Dimension study continues to track the different perspectives of the online experience of industry leaders on the one hand and connected consumers on the other. In this asiCast Brian Jacobs of BJ&A talks to Anna Reeves, Chief Marketing Officer at Kantar Media, about the… Read more

In this asiCast Marie Stafford, Director of Consumer Intelligence, Trends and Insight at JWT, and Jeremy Pounder, Futures Director at Mindshare, talk to Brian Jacobs of BJ&A about the award-winning study they conducted across nine countries into the impact of the introduction of voice technology on consumer behaviour. How do… Read more

This asiCast is about blockchain. What does blockchain mean in terms of what it can do for us? Most of us have a sense that the technology holds a lot of promise, but many are unaware of the technical limitations that mean it is unlikely to realise its full potential… Read more