Posted on 08/24/2023 3:38:23 PM PDT by Brown Deer
Thank for you the clarification...a distinction without much of a difference, though, and it also validates most of what I said to be correct, not "Wrong!" as you said. It would not count was two viewers if someone did the same thing with a TV interview to watch part of it and come back to watch another part of it later unless it was two completely separate airings (but those ratings would not combine in any event), and if someone sits down to watch a TV program, they most likely watch the whole thing anyway.
Does Neilsen still have people fill out surveys? Or do they get the data from the cable companies? I am sure those cable boxes send back as much information as they send out. Time on, time off, channels on, time on, scrolling etc. Cable companies would want that data though I have opinion on the cable TV industry business model that belongs on another thread... In short it should be killed off and will eventually die.
These days with so many people cutting the cord, I am not sure how Neilsen does it. Netflix for example won’t release any information on viewership of its shows. They will just say things like “most watched ever” or “top 10 today”. No data to relate it to. Youtube has a counter. But all these platforms can easily manipulate that number any way they want - example as someone wrote above if you’re scrolling and it “autostarts” for half a second, that might count as a view.
But, politics aside, X seems like it is working hard to become something much more important than Twitter ever was. I think Jack Dorsey still owns a piece (iirc he kicked in some cash, or his shares, to help Musk finance the buyout) and am certain that X will eventually stream a lot of content like Tucker’s (indeed Musk made an offer that content creators would get 100% of the money their content earns for a year), post books and articles, and add payment features and shopping. I figure it’s only a matter of time until they have a smart TV app to compete with Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Hulu etc etc. My smart TV has so many available apps to download I don’t know what half of them are - I only download the ones I use.
And you logged it into your ratings book that you were watching even if you weren't?
A click means somebody is actually watching it when the click occurs. They might watch a few minutes, click to something else for a while, then click back.
And those would count for multiple separate views a piece. The same would not be done for views on television to watch part of it and come back to it later - that is still just one viewer - unless they were two completely separate airings.
One could make the argument clicks are a more valid measurement of actual viewer attention.
Come now. If someone takes the time to sit down to watching a television program they are paying more attention than casually scrolling around clicking things on the computer and especially on a phone or tablet. Far fewer as likely to sit and watch the whole thing in one setting and pay as close of attention.
Unsure.
About 2 years or so ago I was paid to keep a journal for Nielsen, I filled in every waking hour that I was watching television, what, when and for how long.
Have no clue if they still relying on that procedure and if so what % of their reliance is upon it.
Yes, I recently had Nielsen contact me and I was sent a log book.
And if you get those and don't want to participate, don't throw the envelopes away without opening - there is a dollar bill in them.
Pay me to log something and I will log it.
Doesn’t mean I will actually do what the log says.
I highly doubt this."
Meanwhile, the rest of us buy into the opinion of someone who cannot conjugate a simple verb...
You were paid to put entries into a log that weren't valid?
They still fill out paper. Still today only 58,000 people dictate what we watch. You’d think they would update their system, but they haven’t.
GOOD!!!!
I was paid. I put in what I wanted and walked away.
I despise the gaslight media.
I’d do anything I could do undermine and destroy them.
How are you going to stop me, Mr. Neil$en?
Those numbers are way off. It’s not the number of people that watched, but were exposed to posts about it
150 million (counting fraudulent) voted in total in 2020. So what we’re saying is that 50 million more than the entire national vote count “watched” this interview. For perspective, the Super Bowl pulls in 200 million. So you’re saying the interview with Tucker was as big as the Super Bowl. I smell a load of BS.
Tucker could have charged millions for a 30 second ad if this were the case. I think this number is being misrepresented big time.
50 million “viewers” more than the entire 2020 election. Right.
And I am supposed to feel threatened by someone who doesn’t know how to use periods?
I watched the entire interview and I almost never watch interviews, like once every 20 years.
That is some egregious bullshit.
You opened your first post on this thread, #14, with this complete bluff:
"“views” is anyone scrolling past the video. And if the same person does that more than once, it is another view" - Republican Wildcat
And then followed that up with:
"That doesn’t diminish the fact enough people were interested too [sic] at least scroll past it that many times - but difficult to say it was the “most watched interview ever.” - Republican Wildcat
Then you got TOLD.
"The main Twitter video view metric is triggered when a user watches a video for at least 2 seconds and sees at least 50% of the video player in-view. This applies to View metrics for both uploaded videos and live broadcasts." - Brown Deer
No, but I'm happy to shame you, as I correctly utilize ellipsis to indicate I'm continually punching down on you...An unending commentary...Not at all surprised you have no idea how ellipsis are utilized...Your experience on FreeRepublic is one long thread of embarrassment for you...Perhaps you should try FreeRepulsive....
“So, two out of three Americans has watched this?
I highly doubt this.”
Meanwhile, the rest of us buy into the opinion of someone who cannot conjugate a simple verb...
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OMG! I just spit out my water that I was drinking! Well played and great call out!!! :)
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