Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Wurtzel critics: social media does help TV; NH fixes Push Polling issue (RBDR–5/01/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Backlash to the TV/social media remarks from NBCUniversal Head of Research Alan Wurtzel surfaced quickly. It doesn’t question what Wurtzel concluded (that social media is not yet driving TV viewing), but insists that social media has value for television viewing. 2) Researchers at two Madrid, Spain universities say they can predict tweets that will go viral. 3) New Hampshire’s governor signed a bill that redefines push polling in order to differentiate it from real polling and marketing research.
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Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Ipsos sees giant projects coming at last; NBCU: social media not impacting TV (RBDR–4/30/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) Ipsos says clients are readying major projects and shedding concerns about risk after five long years. It can only be seen as something that will impact many quality MR organizations. 2) comScore’s Project BluePrint will launch as a syndicated tracker covering audience consumption on TV, computers, radio, phones and tablets later this year. 3) NBCU head of Research Alan Wurtzel says based on what NBC experienced during its coverage of the Winter Olympics, he is convinced that social media is not yet capable of driving TV viewing.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Facebook feeds data to TV Nets, Study: MR undergoing evolutionary change (RBDR–10/02/13)

Today: 1) Facebook may be establishing a new social media data collection trend by collecting and sending its users’ data re TV programs to the four American TV networks. 2) Best Practices, LLC’s Consumer MR Innovation study describes adoption as ongoing evolutionary change, not revolutionary, disruptive change. 3) Nielsen Vice Chair Susan Whiting will retire at the end of 2013.

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