Nielsen Changes Course, Embraces Advertising | RBDR

January 19, 2017. Today on RBDR:

1) Nielsen reverses its corporate course and launches an advertising campaign designed to explain its work and capabilities to marketers.

2) What is the value to service providers and service users of online ratings services? A Wharton School post-doctoral studying is studying that.

RBDR is sponsored this week by Toluna and its PanelPortal™ – engage like never before with a community like no other.

Check out the link to Toluna’s “Communities Playbook” by clicking here.

No need to spend time “searching” for today’s RBDR video. Subscribe to receive a FREE, personal email as soon as the new RBDR is uploaded. Click here.

Decision scientists: overpaid? Tweets for TV correlate to watch behavior. (RBDR 07.06.2016)

Today on RBDR:

1) Barclays Head of Advanced Analytics Harry Powell bogs about British CEOs’ dislike of how much decision scientists in their companies are being paid…but Howell says there is no sign that this trend is going to change.

2) A study claims that increases in certain emotions expressed in Twitter tweets about TV programs correlates to predictability of viewing in comedy, drama and romantic series.

RBDR is sponsored today and this week by Decision Analyst, a firm that integrates advanced qualitative techniques into its portfolio of research and consulting services.

You are invited to read Decision Analyst President Jerry W. Thomas’ new article titled “Qualitative Analytics.” Read it by clicking here.

Don’t spend your time “searching” for today’s RBDR video. Subscribe to receive a personal email as soon as the new RBDR is uploaded. Click here.

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

Why search for today’s RBDR? Receive an email, Monday-Thursday, with multiple links to the newest video as soon as it is uploaded. To subscribe: ow.ly/CfFWE

Sponsored by Nuance, offering multi-language verbatim coding services to help companies quantify the meaning of open-ended answers. Nuance, a Decision Analyst company.

To find out more about Nuance: http://www.nuancecoding.com
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.