As if you didn’t already realize, we’re certainly no expert on all things Nielsen but we do know when reading a MediaPost article about Nielsen ratings declining after DVR viewership is added to live and Nielsen blather such as this is uttered, “With time shifted data, there have been occurrences when demographic projections (in units) for ‘live plus same day’ are lower than for ‘live’ projections (units). This difference can be attributed to the imputed VCR record activity which is calculated from household tuning activity that includes VCR record and household tuning that excludes VCR record. The VCR adjustment factor is applied to each building block demographic at the quarter-hour level for both programs and time periods,” and we feel like a first grader listening to a college physics lecture, something is very wrong.
Does anyone else feel like Nielsen is going to implode upon itself finally giving way to more effective and realistic metrics?
