As métricas usadas para medir a TV e o on-line são muito diferentes
Por Steve Hasker, presidente global
À medida que refletimos sobre a temporada 2015 de upfront e NewFront, não faltam observadores do setor dispostos a fazer a chamada sobre como os anunciantes devem alocar seus investimentos na TV tradicional e nas novas plataformas digitais.
Key to these significant investment decisions is understanding where and to what extent audiences are watching TV and digital video. Unfortunately, the metrics commonly used to compare TV and digital viewing are vastly different and often misunderstood. This results in reports, in publications ranging from The Verge to The New York Times, that digital video programming has a greater audience than a TV program because the total digital views are greater than the number of TV viewers, based on ratings reported by Nielsen.
In TV, the standard measurement unit for viewership is the average-minute audience — how many viewers there are in an average minute of content. In the digital space, on the other hand, video measurement is commonly expressed as the gross number of times the video is viewed, even if only for one minute or one second. These two metrics are quite different, and comparing one to the other unfairly tilts the comparison against TV.
Estamos enfrentando esse desafio do setor com nossa solução de medição Total Audience, que fornecerá classificações baseadas em métricas semelhantes na TV e no digital. A Nielsen terá a maioria das peças da medição de Total Audience implementadas até o final do ano.
Let’s consider two examples: ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and the 2014 World Cup shown on ESPN.
In May 2015, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” had an average audience of 2.2 million adults. The 23 “featured” videos on the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” YouTube channel averaged about 9 million views, and very popular ones got more than 25 million views. These numbers appear to show that the YouTube audience is much larger than the TV audience.
However, the total TV audience as we measure it is not actually 2.2 million – that’s just the audience that tuned in during any given minute of the program. The average May telecast attracted 5.3 million adults, meaning that in the average week, the program was watched by 16.6 million adults; and over the month, the reach of the program was 43.1 million adults. Nearly one out of five American adults tuned into the program for that one month, and that’s the total TV audience of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
In every assessment of TV and digital audiences, we need to use comparable metrics — but we can’t compare YouTube views to the TV average-minute audience.
In our second example, the 2014 World Cup on ESPN had an average-minute TV audience of 4.6 million persons, and received 115.5 million digital views. But 4.6 million for TV and 115.5 million for digital is the wrong comparison — if we translate digital viewership into a TV metric, the average-minute digital audience of the World Cup on ESPN was 307,000, representing just 7% lift of the TV audience.
A exibição digital deve ser incluída na medição de vídeo o mais rápido possível, pois não há dúvida de que ela está crescendo e se tornou parte do consumo diário de vídeo. Isso exigirá uma colaboração contínua entre a Nielsen e nossos clientes, e também exigirá que editores e anunciantes cheguem a uma decisão conjunta para incluir a exibição digital nas classificações. De nossa parte, quando fizermos referência à audiência de TV, deixaremos claro quando estivermos usando uma métrica de minuto médio.
Tanto as redes de TV quanto os editores de vídeo somente digital precisam usar comparações justas ao falar com os anunciantes. Para isso, precisamos de uma medição independente de terceiros para canais de vídeo não tradicionais que seja comparável à que fornecemos para a TV.
As we roll out the pieces of Total Audience measurement, buyers and sellers will need to weigh in and help finalize their definitions to determine which metrics to trade on. In the meantime, buyers and sellers should beware.
This article originally appeared on adage.com.
