asiCast

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