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Author: Jessica Bromley

The royal wedding

The Royal Wedding on 29th April between the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge marked the highest television audience of 2011 so far with a peak audience of 26.3m viewers and 36.7m viewers in total watching some part of the wedding coverage. Coverage ran across 12 Barb reported channels (including +1s) capturing the arrival of the […]

Trends in television report

From 2011 the reportis being published annually. The 2010 annual report (as well as the last quarterly report covering the fourth quarter of 2010) is available now. Trends in Television contains data for total TV covering average daily hours of viewing and average weekly reach for 11 audiences, homes universes by platform, trends in audience […]

Barb strategy

The following, in conjunction with the development priorities outlined both in the Christmas Bulletin and in Barb News, summarizes the headline content of the Barb Strategy Statement which is available via the Future into View button on the home page of the Barb website, www.barb.co.uk. Capture opportunities to strengthen the service Barb wants to ensure […]

Barb development priorities

Develop a “Non-Linear” Database As reported in the October Bulletin, a pilot version of a non-linear database is being developed to potentially accommodate viewing data from non-linear sources that fall outside the core Barb service. The first experimental output from the pilot non-linear database has been examined by Barb and its research contractors Kantar/TNS and […]