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Statement On Recent Media Coverage of Nielsen’s TV Ratings and Program Frequency Reporting

2 minute read | September 2011


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NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 – Recent trade media reportage of a Nielsen client notification on September 21 about a restatement of the Program Viewing Frequency metric in Nielsen’s NPower tool contained inaccurate facts and misleading information about the potential impact this could have on the sale of TV advertising. Some of these trade stories suggesting the TV advertising market could be affected were wrong; the TV advertising market remains unaffected.

L'indicateur de fréquence de visionnage des programmes tel que rapporté par NPower mesure le nombre de fois où les téléspectateurs ont regardé un programme dans une fenêtre de temps sélectionnée par l'utilisateur. La mesure de la fréquence de visionnage des programmes produite par NPower n'est pas liée aux plates-formes d'achat utilisées pour la publicité télévisée et doit être distinguée des évaluations des publicités télévisées connues sous le nom de "C3" qui sont utilisées à cette fin.

Since 2007, the TV industry has used commercial ratings, not program ratings, to negotiate the price of TV advertising. Nielsen developed C3 in consultation with clients and input from the industry to incorporate time-shifted viewing into TV ratings. C3 measures the average commercial minutes viewed during live programming plus three days of Digital Video Recorder (DVR), Video on Demand (VOD) and Internet playback.

Nielsen’s C3 ratings are accredited by and subject to the Media Rating Council’s rigorous audit process that ensures audience measurement services are valid, reliable and effective. Nielsen provides the TV advertising market with the most accurate, comprehensive and reliable audience measurement available.

La mesure de la fréquence d'écoute des programmes rapportée par NPower ne fait pas partie des évaluations C3.

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Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) is a global information and measurement company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and related properties. Nielsen has a presence in approximately 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA and Diemen, the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.