Barb Briefing: A Defining Moment

Author: Jessica Bromley

Barb Explained: Total Identified Viewing

In November 2021, Barb completed a once-in-a-generation upgrade in its audience reporting with the introduction of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) and video-sharing platform measurement. We are now able to measure the total time spent viewing SVOD services such as Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and Netflix, and video-sharing platforms like TikTok, Twitch and YouTube. We can also […]

Barb Explained: SVOD and video-sharing

In November 2021, Barb completed a once-in-a-generation upgrade in its audience reporting with the introduction of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) and video-sharing platform measurement – but how do we know what people are watching on these services? There are two parts to reporting SVOD and video-sharing viewing data, and these rely on two different technical solutions. […]

Establishment Survey results for Q2 2021

Barb, the UK’s television audience measurement currency, has released data from its Establishment Survey for Q2 2021. The survey enables Barb to understand the characteristics of UK households, part of ensuring that our daily reporting of television audiences is representative of the whole population. Due to restrictions on carrying out fieldwork during the coronavirus pandemic, […]

Dovetail Fusion includes smartphone data

Barb has now launched total four-screen viewing with the inclusion of smartphones. Since January 2020, Barb has reported unduplicated reach and time spent viewing across three screens: TV sets, tablets and PCs. This total three-screen viewing has been reported on our website alongside consolidated seven-day TV set viewing. Extending our reporting of unduplicated reach and […]

In-depth look: Euro 2020 device-viewing

With the Euro 2020 tournament attracting large amount of viewing on TV sets, we can also use Barb’s multiple-screen viewing techniques to measure the impact of tournament-viewing on broadcaster video-on-demand (BVOD) services. This includes viewing via these services on non-TV devices, as Barb measures both live and on-demand viewing on BVOD services across tablets, PCs/laptops […]

TV set viewing: Euro 2020

Welcome to a new edition of What People Watch, a series exploring different aspects of how UK audiences are watching television now. This time we look at some of the early viewing data from the delayed Euro 2020 international football tournament. But first, our regular update on the latest weekly trends. TV set viewing to […]