4A's SET TOP BOX SURVEY RESULTS - American Association of ...
4A's SET TOP BOX SURVEY RESULTS - American Association of ...
4A's SET TOP BOX SURVEY RESULTS - American Association of ...
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Nielsen<br />
Patrick Dineen<br />
SVP, Local Product Leadership<br />
E-mail: patrick.dineen@nielsen.com<br />
Phone: (646) 654-7971<br />
Set Top Box data, also known as Return Path Data, is television tuning detailed<br />
information that is collected by MSO, telcos and DBS television service providers from<br />
their subscriber’s television consumption activity.<br />
The key value proposition from STB data that Nielsen is focused on is how it can<br />
economically enable significant sample size increases in local markets to improve the<br />
fidelity <strong>of</strong> local TV ratings.<br />
Nielsen licenses STB data from a number <strong>of</strong> television services providers and continues<br />
to develop relationships with others, including aggregators, to address our local TV<br />
ratings improvement objectives. To date, we have made public statements about our<br />
relationships with Charter and with Kantar for Directview data.<br />
Out <strong>of</strong> respect for our supplier agreements, we do not share this detail publically at this<br />
juncture. We may well make more information like this available in the future in concert<br />
with incorporation <strong>of</strong> STB in our ratings <strong>of</strong>ferings and subsequent requirements from the<br />
MRC.<br />
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