When we wrote last summer about the test launch of The PreTesting Company’s MediaCheck, a passive, digital television commercial viewership measurement service, we knew a new world of television viewership was upon us. Following a test launch in 2,500 Omaha homes, MediaCheck plans to have its measurement service in 35,000 homes in up to seven cities. The company is also in talks with cable operators to embed the system within set top boxes. Bye, bye archaic program ratings measurement systems. Bye, bye Nielsen. Hello commercial viewership metrics that will allow buyers to properly price television buys.
Responding to Strawberry Frog’s Scott Goodson who said metrics such as MediaCheck could “rob commercials of edgy creative,” AdJab’s Chris Thilk took the words right out of our mouths writing, “You’re [Goodson] the problem. Advertising is about selling, not entertaining. If you want to entertain go to Hollywood.”
