Category Archives: Adverts

Trends in Commercial Impacts – or How to Get Ahead in Television Advertising

Posted on 6th October 2016 by FaridHusseini

Not only has year-on-year quarterly BARB measured Total TV viewing (i.e. how many people, on average, are watching TV at any given point in time) in the UK risen for the first time in over 3 years from 8.25 million … Continue reading →

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Total TV Viewing Trends (2010 – 2013)

Posted on 6th February 2014 by FaridHusseini

Annual BARB measured television viewing levels in the UK have fallen significantly for the first time since the advent of the new BARB panel in January 2010. Having fluctuated at just over 240 minutes a day during the three year … Continue reading →

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Ad-Skipping Drama: House versus Downton

Posted on 28th January 2013 by FaridHusseini

In my last research note I compared the levels of live versus timeshifted viewing for medical drama House, going out on Sky1, and period drama Downton Abbey, going out on ITV1 (now of course rebranded to just ITV). With a … Continue reading →

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