Cable TV viewing declined by more than 12 percent in January
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Looks like Netflix and other streaming services are starting to have an impact on traditional TV viewing: Total live TV ratings were…
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Looks like Netflix and other streaming services are starting to have an impact on traditional TV viewing: Total live TV ratings were…
Yup, it’s happening: TV viewers are abandoning traditional broadcast and cable networks for online streaming services, and new devices in their living rooms are making it easier for them to cut the cord.
Kanye West’s “Gone,” an eight-year-old song, hit the BillBoard Hot 100, thanks in part to a viral video hit on YouTube that used it as a soundtrack. That bump in the rankings shows that media ratings and rankings are mere relics of the past.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/business/media/nielsen-to-measure-twitter-chatter-about-tv.html Execs are talking about measuring tweet volume and the reach of those tweets, but isn’t the real value in figuring out…
A new report finds that Twitter engagement can help boost TV ratings and vice versa, though it’s not guaranteed.
Halfway through this year, digital song sales are actually down 2.3 percent: 682.2 million in 2013, versus 698 million a year ago. Meanwhile, digital streams of music are up 24 percent.
Twitter’s new music app could be a great discovery tool, if the company can figure out how to make the recommendations effective — a challenge they’ve struggled with since the beginning.
In two signs of how online media consumption is changing traditional tracking services, Nielsen will begin tracking the habits of viewers who watch TV over broadband, while Billboard will begin including YouTube music video views in its charts.
There’s never been more video content to watch, or more ways of to watch it. That, says Jeremy Toeman, of Dijit Media, a big problem. In making TV infinite, we’ve lost its most potent benefit: escapism.
Over the past year as more consumers have adopted smartphones the number of installed applications is up from 32 to 41. Yet the amount of time spent using those applications hasn’t changed much, indicating that developers might be challenged when it comes to increasing application engagement.
Based on metering of 5,000 smartphone phones, Nielsen said five top retailers found that smartphone users during the holidays preferred mobile retail sites 51 percent to 28 percent for native apps. The findings suggest retailers need to focused on both native apps and the mobile web.
Nielsen is getting ready later this week to release is quarterly State of the Media report, which this time around will focus on mobile medi…
Some stats out today from Nielsen for Q3 show that Android is continuing on its growth trajectory in the U.S. but in the last quarter Apple’…
Nielsen’s third-quarter metrics show that 62 percent of the 25-to-34-year-old U.S. population has a smartphone. But the fastest-growing age group adopting smartphones last quarter is a surprise: It’s the 55-to-64-year-olds. That means mobile app developers have an opportunity right now.
There were few surprises in the latest report from Nielsen on the mobile device market: Android continues to do well in the U.S. at the expe…
Nielsen has been watching Android users, and it’s clear that the app phenomenon is not just an Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) thing. Two-thirds of all t…
Looks like we have again reached a tipping point of sorts in the mobile market in the U.S. The analysts at Nielsen report that in May, smart…
It won’t be long before most phones will be smartphones, which are outselling feature phones in recent sales, according to new figures from Nielsen. The firm said smartphones made up 55 percent of recent phone acquisitions in May 2011 in the U.S.
Mobile data usage continues to explode, as more and more people make the leap from regular mobile phones to smartphones like the iPhone and…
More on the trend of users tipping over to Android devices in the U.S., with smartphones built on Google’s OS not only accounting for the mo…
Android has been outselling the iPhone recently but Apple’s iPhone was still the most desired smartphone. Not anymore. According to Nielsen, 31 percent of respondents in March said they want their next smartphone to be an Android device, while 30 percent said they wanted an iPhone.
Statistics presented by Nielsen tday suggest that fluctuations in cable subscription numbers are due not to cord-cutting, but “cord-swapping,” with consumers switching between different services. However, that still doesn’t explain the rise of broadband-only households among the under-25 set, who are embracing cable-free life.
After months of planning, Nielsen Holdings N.V. (“The Nielsen Company”) has priced its initial public offering of 71,428,572 shares of its c…
Did online viewers kill Caprica? Not exactly, says SyFy Digital’s GM Craig Engler. However, Hulu and Co. don’t bring in nearly as much money as traditional advertising, which is why Nielsen ratings still matter more than anything else when it comes to a show’s fate.
TV execs have often lamented DVRs usage, since timeshifted viewers tend to fast forward through ads, making them less valuable to advertisers. But new data shows that DVR users don’t just watch more TV than non-DVR owners, but they watch more ads than you’d think.
The average amount of time U.S. viewers spent watching TV declined by about 14 minutes a month in the second quarter. But don’t worry, TV execs, that’s out of about 140 hours of TV viewed on average, and about 30 seconds less TV per day.
This week on the Net: Our NewTeeVee Live conference last week was apparently the epicenter for cord cutting activism, South Park allegedly stole music from YouTube and Netflix is possibly out to destroy Hulu. These news and many more adjectives in today’s Vid Biz.
Nielsen has uncovered a glitch in its system that led it to under-report the amount of time users spent on websites and is investigating the…
Although the iPad is still relatively new, early indications are that a majority of users are willing to pay for content — whether it’s apps or games — and that news and music are the two most popular forms of media consumed, with books a close third.
The Nielsen Company is working to extend its ratings measurements to online campaigns, giving advertisers the ability to understand how well their cross platform efforts are faring. Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings will provide Nielsen’s first look at online ratings similar to the way it’s tracked TV consumption.
Today on the Net: A third of young Netflix users substitute the service for pay television, Jeffrey Katzenberg lashes out at 3-D skeptics, Project Canvas incorporates as YouView and Time Warner could lose subscribers in the third quarter.
[This is a corrected version of an earlier item] In advance of fall TV season’s kick off next week, The ABC (NYSE: DIS) Television Group and…
Remember how you thought everyone should have a DVR the first time you used one? Well, your dream may almost have come true: Six out of ten TV viewers now use a digital video recorder for time shifting, according to a new survey commissioned by Comcast.
Talk of IPOs is in the air these days, as audience measurement company Nielsen is increasing the amount it wants to raise in a stock sale to…
About 40 percent of people use TV and the web at the same time each week, and users spend about 4 percent of their TV time surfing the web, according to Nielsen. But chances are, they’re not surfing topics related to what they’re watching on TV.
U.S. consumers are not racing to replace their pay-TV subscription with online video services, according to research from Nielsen. In fact, it reports just the opposite is happening: the number of households that have signed up for cable and broadband together has grown dramatically.
The Nielsen Company and McKinsey & Co. have formed global joint venture called NM Incite that seeks to marry the former’s audience ratings e…
While shows like American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and NCIS top Nielsen ratings week after week, viewers watching TV content online tune into a different type of fare, with Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill and Vampire Diaries topping viewership on video search site SideReel.
Nielsen, one of the biggest B2B media and measurement companies, has filed for an IPO, and hopes to raise as much as $1.75 billion. J.P. Mor…
Hoping to benefit from the continued growth of the online video industry, Nielsen is beefing up its online video analytics services with the…
Nielsen is further extending its online reach with the acquisition of online video measurement firm GlanceGuide, which it will use to provide…
Lots of nifty stats from Nielsen and Facebook in the first major report since they started partnering on data last fall — and you won’t be…
People are watching more TV than ever and using the Internet more than ever before. So how do they find the time?…
Nielsen’s latest bid to stay ahead of the audience measurement competition involves striking an alliance with behavioral targeter eXelate. T…
After having shed its some of it major b2b mags, Nielsen has now sold off some of its smaller business travel and meeting brands to Northsta…
Some more new numbers on Nielsen’s sale of eight of its marquee media-entertainment related brands — including The Hollywood Reporter, Bill…
Nielsen has finally found a buyer for Kirkus Reviews, which was threatened with being shuttered following the sale of its b2b pubs, the NYT…
Updated below: More changes continue to happen at Nielsen Business Media, after the sale of its media brands recently: the president of the…
The bible of the newspaper industry has been revived. Editor & Publisher announced late Thursday that it has been acquired by Duncan McIntos…
Rentrak, the entertainment and VOD measurement company, has acquired Nielsen EDI, which offers measurement services for the movies industry,…
Along with the announcement of the sale of Nielsen Business Media’s (NBM) eight media titles, one thing was obvious: the buyer’s party didn’…
As we reported last night, the deal for the media brands of Nielsen Business Media has closed and it has been officially announced this morn…
While 99 percent of video is watched on a TV in the U.S., in the third quarter DVR use and online video…
No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkels…
Nielsen has been tallying TV ratings for years, but with shows and video offerings proliferating online through various distribution points, what a…
Facebook may have just pulled the plug on its controversial Beacon ad program, but it keeps devising new ways to generate revenue and profit…
Some big names in the media world — including networks owned by NBC (s GE), Time Warner (s TWX), News Corp. (s…
Twitterers Have Longer Video Attention Spans; Twitter-referred videos are watched on average for one minute, 58 seconds, compared to 1:14 for Facebookers,…
Is Bing helping Microsoft (s MSFT) move the needle on online video? That appears to be the case, according to new monthly…
Nielsen put out its How Teens Use Media report today, which, the research firm says, dispels some myths about the ways teenagers…
Sometimes, irregularity in video stats is just confounding. For April, Nielsen said unique U.S. video viewers were down 2.5 percent in the…
We know Facebook’s traffic and user-engagement stats continue to surge — seemingly at the expense of MySpace — but new data from Nielsen s…
When you think of famous music supergroups, names like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, or Emerson, Lake & Palmer come to mind.…
*TiVo* is adding local data to its Stop|Watch TV ratings service, giving advertisers a more granular read on how and when its subscribers ar…
Timing is everything and this one sounds curious… Nielsen Business Media is debuting a new bimonthly digital mag on eco-friendly design an…
With companies like WPP Group and newer digital start-ups encroaching on its audience-research business, Nielsen has to find ways keep growi…
Nielsen Business Media’s latest reorg has netted the company a new digital chief: SVP Sabrina Crow will now tackle overall strategic develop…
Members of the House this afternoon failed to pass a bill that would delay the transition from analog to digital television signals…
Nielsen reported today that more than 6.5 million U.S. households (5.7 percent) are not ready for the national switch to digital TV…
After a dip in October, the number of overall unique online video viewers rose again in November, according to Nielsen’s VideoCensus. The…
Nielsen released new online video facts and figures today, among them the top video sites for October, corrected figures from September, and…
Hulu generated more than 142 million streams in September, as the premium content site continues its steady climb up the Nielsen VideoCensus rankings of the top brands on the web.
Nielsen is shutting down its social network-market research hybrid “Hey! Nielsen,” Mediapost reports. Seems like it was only a matter of t…
With China’s internet audience estimated at 250 million and growing as the U.S. online ad market slows, Nielsen is hoping for a little balan…
The Nielsen Company is teaming with fellow researcher Mediamark on a service that aims to provide better targeting for mobile ad campaigns.…
Trying to carve out another space where it differs from the competition, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is claiming first-in status when it comes…
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is teaming with The Nielsen Company on creating sales metrics across TV and online video streaming. Specifically, t…
The Nielsen Company has been working on building up its mobile side lately. Following its recent combo offering of PC web and mobile web tra…
At American Business Media’s annual Spring conference at La Quinta, CA, the opening keynote this morning going on right now is by David Calh…
Nielsen has released a new reporting service that combines audience measurement for online and mobile called TotalWeb. The service, which is…
paidContent has learned that AOL (NYSE: TWX) Chief Marketing Officer John Burbank is leaving, less than a year after he arrived, to take on…
The trouble in traditional B2B media land continues, as Nielsen Business Media is laying off between 40-50 staffers, FBNY reports. The layof…
Privately held Nielsen will acquire IAG Research, a firm that measures consumer media engagement, for $225 million. Specifically, IAG measur…
Nielsen Business Media, which just did a reorg of its entertainment properties under a new division and appointed a new head, has now announ…
Nielsen Business Media is reorganizing the way it manages its entertainment properties again. Gerry Byrne, who has been advising Nielsen sin…
An in-depth look at the debate over web analytics over at Computerworld has concluded that page views are dead (although we track…
Nielsen, after its rebranding efforts and under new ownership, has been on an acquisitions tear on its mainstay analytics side: it bought mo…
The Nielsen Company will begin measuring TV viewing on the PC as part of its TV ratings panel by the end of this year, AdAge reported. The c…
Nielsen not only wants to measure what you watch, it wants to know what you think. The audience measurement company announced that it has ma…
With TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and others turning their attention to real-time on-demand audience measurement, The Nielsen Comp…
For the music industry, even the good news these days comes with a dose of negativity. Labels have pinned their hopes on online music sales…
Update and correction: The company e-mails in and says AdAge story was inaccurate…the schedule is being cut not to a bi-weekly, but 36 iss…
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has struck a multi-year partnership with The Nielsen Company that includes providing advertisers a real-time picture of…