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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 →
Posted in BARB, Death of Television, Econometrics, EPG, FAANG, Forecasting, Future TV, Netflix, Ofcom, Projections, PSB, Regression, SVOD
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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 →
Posted in BARB, Death of Television, Facebook, Forecasting, Heat Wave, Impact Assessment, Model, Netflix, Regression, SVOD, Total TV Viewing, Weather
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The DTT Platform – Succeeding in the Face of the SVOD Challenge
In my previous note I discussed how 2017 was another challenging year for schedule based television in the UK, with the SVOD services (Netflix, Amazon, Now TV, etc.) in particular taking a bigger slice of the total video viewing pie, … Continue reading →
Posted in Adults 16-34, Adults 16+, Age Groups, Amazon, BARB, BARB Panel, BARB Universes, BT, BVOD, Catch-Up TV, Commercial Impacts, Cord-Cutting, Digital Switchover, DTT, DTT Only Homes, DTT Platform, Freeview, Netflix, Sky, Smart TV, SVOD, TalkTalk, Television, Total TV, Virgin Media, YouTube, YouView
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The Death of Television – Is it Finally Happening?
Although year-on-year schedule based UK television viewing, as measured by BARB’s consolidated (Live + 7-days catch-up) Total TV audience, has been in decline since 2012, it was beginning to show signs of levelling off with a very notable slowing in … Continue reading →
Posted in 2020 Forecast, Adults 16-34, Age Groups, Amazon, BARB, BBC 3, BBC1, Catch-Up TV, Channel 4, Channel List, Channel Schedules, Children, Death of Television, EPG, EPG Prominence, EPG Reshuffle, EPG Viewing Impact, HD, HD/SD Channel Swap, ITV, Linear TV, Netflix, PSB, Smart Phones, Smart TV, SVOD, Tablets, Television, Total TV, TV in 2020, Virgin Media, VOD
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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 →
Posted in 4Seven, Amazon, BARB, Channel List, Death of Television, DTT, EPG, EPG Prominence, EPG Reshuffle, EPG Viewing Impact, Forecasting, Freeview, Internet TV, Linear TV, Live TV, Netflix, Ofcom, PVR, Sky, SVOD, Tablets, Television, The Grand Tour, Total TV, TV in 2020, Virgin Media, VOD, YouTube
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Trends in Commercial Impacts – or How to Get Ahead in Television Advertising
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 →
Posted in Ad-Skipping, Adults 16-34, Adults 16+, Advertising Revenue, Adverts, BARB, BBC 3, Commercial Impacts, Death of Television, EPG, Facebook, fast-forward, Linear TV, Live TV, London Olympics, Ofcom, Television, Timeshifted TV, Timeshifting, Total TV, Total TV audience, Total TV Viewing, TV, Viceland UK, Viewing
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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 →
Posted in 2020 Forecast, Age Groups, BARB, Catch-Up TV, Children, Death of Television, Digital Switchover, DVR, Employment Rate, Forecasting, Future TV, HD, High Definition, Internet TV, Live TV, Millennials, Project Dovetail, PVR, Smart Phones, Smart TV, Tablets, Television, Timeshifted TV, Timeshifting, Total TV, Total TV audience, Total TV Viewing, TV, TV in 2020, Viewing, VOD, Weather
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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 →
Total TV Viewing Trends (2010 – 2013)
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 →
Posted in Ad-Skipping, Advertising Revenue, Adverts, BARB, Catch-Up TV, Death of Television, fast-forward, ITV, Live TV, PVR, Sky, Sky Platform, Sky Plus, Tablets, Television, Timeshifted TV, Timeshifting, Total TV, TV, Viewing, VOD
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