Barb and PAMCo have announced a jointly run beta-stage trial of shared data collection in October, to be carried out by mutual data-collection partner Ipsos. This continues the review process being undertaken by PAMCo as it looks to deliver an evolved measurement system for 2025. The trial will include a sample of participants in the […]

In Netflix’s second year of Upfront negotiations – after entering the advertising business in 2023 – the streamer said it closed deals with all major holding companies as well as independent agencies, and reported a 150+ per cent increase in upfront ad sales commitments, which was “in-line with expectations”. Amy Reinhard, President of Advertising at […]

Barb has released data from its Establishment Survey showing that 20 million UK homes (68.7 per cent) had access to a subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) service in Q2 2024. This is a slight increase from 19.5 million UK homes (67.9 per cent) in Q1, and the first time more than 20 million UK homes report having […]

Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has completed the increase in its nationally-representative panel of UK households from 5,150 homes to 7,000 homes. This is the largest-ever increase in reporting sample since Barb’s launch in 1981 and is part of Barb’s multi-year contracts, which run until the end of 2029. These are […]

Barb data shows Channel 4’s streaming audience in June is up 30 per cent on the same month last year. Meanwhile, the channel continues to grow its overall audience, attracting new digital natives while migrating existing viewers to digital platforms, with 3 per cent year on year growth in viewing across streaming and linear combined […]

Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has issued an invitation to tender (ITT) for Barb Data Hub, a new centralised system for accessing its viewing figures. As part of its strategic priorities, Barb is undergoing a change in its data distribution strategy and is planning to set up a centralised Barb Data […]

BARB data shows Channel 4 is the only major UK broadcaster to grow overall viewing across streaming and linear in 2024. In addition, across the first half of the year, Channel 4’s streaming audience has grown faster than any of the major streaming-only platforms (Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+), with a 32 per cent year on […]

Barb has released data from its Establishment Survey showing that 19.5 million UK homes (67.9 per cent) had access to an SVoD service in Q1 2024, an increase from 18.8m UK homes (65.4 per cent) in Q4 2023. Discovery+ joins the tracker for the first time and Apple TV+ has reached a new high watermark […]

Barb, the UK industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has made a commitment to work more closely with the Media Rating Council (MRC) by becoming a member of the US-based auditor of audience-measurement services. Like Barb, the MRC’s focus is audience measurement. Established over 60 years ago at the request of US Congress, the […]

Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has issued the final part of its invitation to tender (ITT) for the next iteration of its audience measurement service, which aims to extend Barb’s integration of big data and panel data. Earlier, this May Barb shared an ITT for the methodology, data processing and delivery […]