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Displaying all articles tagged:
Nielsen
buffering
Feb. 26, 2024
Do Nielsen Ratings Really Reflect What People Want From Streamers?
How many people are actually streaming
Suits
and
Young Sheldon
?
By
Josef Adalian
anonymous in hollywood
July 7, 2022
‘I Don’t Know How My Show Is Doing!’
Streamers like Netflix run on data, but showrunners say they’re not seeing it. For some, that’s a recipe for serious anxiety.
As told to
Kathryn VanArendonk
and
Josef Adalian
tv ratings
Oct. 14, 2021
Squid Game
Is Following the
Tiger King
Pattern, According to Nielsen
It took a little while for the Netflix series to become a megahit.
By
Josef Adalian
ratings
Sept. 28, 2021
Jeopardy!
Ratings Up Amid Host Controversy
That’s probably not the reason people are tuning in, though.
By
Josef Adalian
tv ratings
Apr. 8, 2020
Tiger King
Is a Gigantic Hit for Netflix
The WTF-filled docuseries drew an audience of 19 million U.S. TV viewers in its first ten days, according to Nielsen.
By
Josef Adalian
tv ratings
June 29, 2016
At Last! Nielsen Has Ratings for
Orange Is the New Black
(Sort Of)
Drum roll, please …
By
E. Alex Jung
boob tube
June 27, 2016
The Latest Nielsen Reports Are In: We’re Hardly Ever Not-Watching Television
The average American spends 4.5 hours watching live TV. Daily.
By
Tolly Wright
the ratings game
Dec. 4, 2015
Confessions of a Nielsen Junkie
ABC, CBS, and NBC were my teams; their dozens of shows my players; the Nielsen chart the playing field.
By
Josef Adalian
the ratings game
Dec. 1, 2015
We Were a Nielsen Family — Here’s What It Was Like
In 2006, Nielsen let an unemployed
me
represent roughly one percent of all TV homes in L.A., and half of one percent nationally.
By
Melvin Mar
Nov. 20, 2015
Fox Becomes the First Broadcast Network to Drop Live+Same Day Nielsen […]
The tide has begun to turn away from the long outdated and inaccurate Live+Same Day Nielsen ratings. Deadline reports that Fox has officially […]
By
Megh Wright
your tv ratings explained
Nov. 20, 2014
Will Nielsen Really Be Able to Measure Netflix?
Will we ever know how many people watched
Orange Is the New Black
?
By
Josef Adalian
Sept. 10, 2014
CBS CEO Les Moonves Calls Overnight Ratings ‘Virtually Irrelevant Now’
It looks like the head honchos of the major networks – or CBS, at least – are finally coming to terms with how outdated overnight Nielsen […]
By
Megh Wright
Aug. 6, 2013
Less Than a Third of Prime-Time TV Shows Get Ratings Boost From Twitter
Reality TV benefited the most.
By
Lindsey Weber
Feb. 21, 2013
Nielsen Will Expand from Inaccurate TV Ratings to Inaccurate Streaming […]
The Nielsen Company has been the only arbiter of TV ratings for decades now (and an absurdly inaccurate one at that), and now the company is […]
By
Bradford Evans
Dec. 17, 2012
Twitter and Nielsen Are Teaming Up for Twitter TV Ratings
The Nielsen Company, which has been inaccurately measuring TV ratings and deciding which shows stay on the air and which don’t since 1950, just […]
By
Bradford Evans
Jan. 31, 2011
Why Nielsen Ratings Are Inaccurate, and Why They’ll Stay That Way
It’s easy to understand why people are ambivalent, or even hostile, toward ratings. The thinking goes something like this: 1. People love the […]
By
John Herrman