Barb, the audience measurement specialist, has appointed RSMB to build a new analytics system that will support full-cycle campaign planning and reporting on linear and VoD services. The new system will be a web-based interface where Barb clients can access and export data from Barb’s pre-campaign planning and optimisation tool, Advanced Campaign Hub and post-campaign […]

Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has upgraded its pre-campaign planning tool, Advanced Campaign Hub. This upgrade enables advertisers and media agencies to plan campaigns on a wide range of streaming services that now includes discovery+ and Netflix. Prime Video (including Freevee) has been included in the Advanced Campaign Hub since June. […]

Kantar Media, the specialist in audience measurement and data, has appointed Lucy Bristowe as CEO, UK & Western Europe. She will take up the post in June, reporting to Patrick Béhar, Global CEO. Bristowe succeeds Louise Ainsworth, who recently announced she would be stepping down after six years at the helm. Bristowe joins Kantar Media […]

Barb, the TV audience measutement specialist, has announced a major upgrade to CFlight, its joint-industry total-campaign reporting service. Through extended reporting of traded audiences, CFlight now gives advertisers and media agencies investment accountability on ad campaigns across both linear and VoD services. As part of the upgrade, CFlight has incorporated 14 of the most used […]

Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has awarded the CFlight Landscape Study to insights consultancy BVA BDRC. Barb says the study will enable it to accurately estimate the size and profile of audiences to TV platforms in the UK and understand the household dynamics of VoD consumption. Barb assumed governance responsibility in […]

Barb has outlined a timetable for the next major upgrade to CFlight: the availability of 14 widely-used traded audiences to enable buyers to assess campaign performance across these audiences. This month, Channel 4, ITV and Sky have begun to provide traded-audiences data for ingestion into CFlight, and alongside RSMB, will be testing the campaign results. […]

Barb, the industry’s standard for analysing what people watch, has announced that it is to assume governance responsibility for CFlight from January 2024. Developed by Sky Media, ITV Media and 4 Sales in the UK, CFlight is a post-campaign validation tool that provides the total reach and frequency of ad campaigns across all viewing platforms. […]

TV broadcasters Sky, ITV and Channel 4 are working together to launch CFlight – a unified advertising metric that captures live, on-demand and time-shifted commercial impressions across all mainstream viewing platforms in the UK. The UK’s CFlight is a post-campaign online evaluation tool, using combined linear TV and broadcaster VoD data to show media buyers […]