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  • Popularity Contest – Streaming vs Linear in 2023

    Popularity Contest – Streaming vs Linear in 2023

    The most recent episode of the new(ish) podcast Search Engine with PJ Vogt asked the simple question, “Why is it so hard to figure out how many people watched Stranger Things?” The question was posed by actor Maya Hawke who appears on the Netflix show. And it opened up an in-depth discussion about audience measure…

  • Broadcast v Streaming

    Broadcast v Streaming

    On an episode of Richard Osman’s House of Games that aired at the start of this week, there was a question in the Distinctly Average round that made me sit up. The celebrity contestants are paired up and each must answer a numerical question that is usually based around making an estimation. They’re not expected…

  • On Sky Q, Netflix and BARB

    Note: This is a subject likely to be of even more niche interest than many of my other blogs here. You have been warned! Yesterday Sky announced that it had reached agreement with Netflix to add Netflix to their Sky Q platform. What this means is that Netflix programmes will appear within the wider Sky…

  • Should We Be Surprised That 60% of TV Programmes Get Zero Ratings?

    On Twitter James Cridland highlighted a stat reported within a Media Guardian story on Local TV: Astonishing stat deep in this story: 60% of all UK TV programmes get offically *no viewers* according to BARB. http://t.co/AosYmY0K9t — James Cridland (@JamesCridland) April 22, 2015 Is this a shocking number? Are vast swathes of television going unwatched…