Bob Lederer RBDR

NBC’s SB 49 social media battle. Making sense of Bilateral Ratings. (RBDR 2.2.2015)

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Today on RBDR:  1) NBC needed to gain as much game-time viewership, plus ratings for post-game programming, However, Second Screen viewing was another ratings and viewings front important to the network.  2) Bilaterial ratings have broken out at Uber, the transportation service, which is now allowing drivers to rate their experience with each individual passenger on top of the traditional passenger review of Uber drivers.  3) There is a new study that purports to demonstrate that anonymous credit card data can be treated in a few small ways to make those individuals identifiable.

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Focus group industry update. Twitter’s new advertising-goal deals. (RBDR 1.28.2015)

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Today on RBDR: 1) IBISWorld’s Focus Group Services procurement report overviews the market’s affordability and usage. 2) Twitter’s new advertising agreements revolves around creation of a goal and paint based on achievement of that. 3) Research-pertinent comments from Apparel Magazine Editor-in-Chief Jordan Speer as she made the rounds at the National Retail Federation conference at the Jacob Javits Center in New York last week. (Read these and other comments at: http://apparel.edgl.com/news/News-from-NRF–Top-20-Takeaways—97803)

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Book publishing “crowdsourcing”; Breakthrough pollster dies (RBDR 8/18/2014)

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Today on RBR: 1) Crowdsourcing is put to its newest test: publishers empowering voters to rate manuscripts for potential publication. 2) Dotty Lynch, a pollster who broke new ground for the profession in assessing the gender gap and what female voters thought of candidates, died at age 69. 3) RBDR offers a way to brighten your next depressing day.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

NYT, CBS 1st to do non-prob polling; JD Power to enter Auto HOF; Twitter MR tool (RBDR 7/30/2014)

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Today on RBDR: 1) The first major news organizations adopt non-probability sampling sample for polling. YouGov is the sample provider; New York Times & CBS News are the users. 2) J.D. Power III is accepting congratulations for his election to the Automotive Hall of Fame. 3) Twitter is about to launch a research tool that helps brands analyze key words from conversations during a one-week period. 4) RBDR’s report about Canvas Fingerprinting Web tracking proved to have some holes. It is basically only workable on smaller websites and it is blockable.

Bob Lederer RFL Communications, Inc.

Social media predictor Blab; “Don’t Know’s” mute poll responses (RBDR–7/08/14)

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Today: 1) A new online service, Blab, says it predicts with 70% accuracy what subject matter will be hot in social media 72 hours in advance. 2) Inclusion of “Don’t Know” as a option in a poll is a too-inviting choice for many respondents, especially women.