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Additional Data from Landmark Audience-Research Study Underscores Ubiquity of Various Media in Americans’ Daily Lives
New York, NY, June 16, 2010 – Nearly two-thirds of consumers listen to the radio, and nearly half view television, in the minutes prior to shopping.
This is according to additional findings from the Video Consumer Mapping (VCM) study sponsored by the Council for Research Excellence (CRE), a diverse group of senior research professionals from throughout the media and advertising industries dedicated to advancing the knowledge and practice of audience measurement methodology.
The VCM study, conducted throughout 2008 by researchers from Ball State University and Sequent Partners, was a groundbreaking event in video-audience research. The $3.5 million project was the first ever to involve the in-person, computer-assisted observation of the media consumption habits of 376 adults. The VCM study – the largest and most extensive observational study of media usage ever conducted – generated data covering more than three-quarters of a million minutes or a total of 752 observed days.
General findings from the VCM study were first announced in March 2009. In May 2010, CRE released the initial results of an exhaustive “data-mining” effort extracting deeper information from the study. Findings from this initial data mining indicated that consumers of live television do not change channels or leave the room as frequently upon the onset of commercials as conventional wisdom has suggested.
The additional data announced today address these questions long explored by media research professionals:
Among the new findings that reflected consumers’ exposure to media before and during shopping:
Among the new “data-mining” findings that reflected consumers’ habits generally during media exposure:
Among the findings reflecting solitary vs. social TV viewing:
“This process has allowed us to gain new insight to the value of observational research, enabling us to delve more deeply into how consumers adopt media as a part of their lives,” said Laura Cowan, vice president and media director of RJC Advertising and chairperson of the CRE’s Media Consumption & Engagement (MC&E;) Committee. “Learning more about how people combine activities and multiple media has great value not only in how advertisers communicate with consumers, but even providing considerations to content providers.”
“The findings from this research serve to reinforce the significant role media – television in particular – continue to play in people’s daily activities, as well as the importance of reaching them through advertising,” added Joanne Burns, executive vice president, marketing, research and new media, 20th Television and MyNetworkTV, and MC&E; Committee member.
Data from the study – which was presented today at the Nielsen national client meeting in Las Vegas – can be found at CRE’s website: http://www.researchexcellence.com/vcm/vcm_dm_061610.php
About the Council for Research Excellence
The Council for Research Excellence (CRE) is an independent research group created (in 2005) and funded by The Nielsen Company. CRE is dedicated to advancing the knowledge and practice of audience measurement methodology and is comprised of senior-level industry researchers representing advertisers, agencies, broadcast networks, cable, syndicators, local stations, and industry associations.
CRE members represent advertising agencies and media-buying firms including Bromley Communications, Carat, Deutsch, Inc., GroupM, Horizon Media, Magna, RJC Advertising, Starcom Mediavest and TargetCast tcm, as well as ad-representation firm Telerep; media companies including CBS, Comcast, Cox, Discovery, Disney, Hearst Television, NBC Universal, News Corporation, Raycom Media, Scripps Networks, Time Warner, Univision and Viacom; advertisers including Kimberley-Clark, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever; industry organizations the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau (CAB), the Media Ratings Council (MRC) and the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB); and the Nielsen Company.
For more information on the Council for Research Excellence, and additional findings of this study, please visit: www.researchexcellence.com
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