Category Archives: Forecasting
SVOD Disruption – Could DTT be the Antidote?
Despite some notable mass audience success, with a much-anticipated Royal Wedding and popular 2018 FIFA World Cup, it has been yet another tough year for schedule-based television in the UK. The annual BARB measured Individuals 4+ consolidated (Live + 7-Days) … Continue reading →
The Rise of SVOD and the Future of TV
It’s finally happened, in late September 2018 BARB released the first instalment of Project Dovetail, with census level device-based data (which BARB has been publishing separately on their website since September 2015) being fused with people-based BARB panel data to … Continue reading →
The Death of Television 2 – Blame it on the Weather!
A much-anticipated Royal Wedding and successful 2018 FIFA World Cup (with England reaching the semi-finals for the first time since 1990) have resulted in some notable mass audience success stories for schedule-based television in recent months. The 4th series of … Continue reading →
Forecasting the Audience Impact of Sky’s Proposed EPG Reshuffle
The announcement by Sky early last month that it was planning a radical overhaul of the increasingly complex Sky EPG, with a reshuffle target date of March 2018 after an appropriate consultation and adjustment period, will undoubtedly have set alarm … Continue reading →
EPG Prominence and Channel Performance – It Still Matters
In the late noughties, I was at a conference where one of the delegates noted how EPGs (electronic programme guides) with their ordered lists of channels and schedule information were so archaic that they might as well be considered ‘Victorian’, … Continue reading →
Expectations versus Reality: TV Viewing by Age Group
Over the last decade in particular, our industry has been plagued by poor predictions resulting from an overestimation of the disruptive viewing impact of technological change. To counter this, it has been suggested that any new forecast should be accompanied … Continue reading →
Forecasting the Total TV Audience in 2020
Annual BARB measured television viewing levels in the UK have fallen again significantly for the second year running, further highlighting the end of the exceptionally high and stable levels of Total TV viewing that were a hallmark of the new … Continue reading →