Culturnomics: the quantitative measurement of the printed word.

You may or may not have come across the new word of the moment “culturnomics” a term used by a research paper just published in the journal Science.  The paper uses data based on a subset of over two trillion words so far scanned by Google in their... Read more...

This chart shows the keyword frequency of “banking,” “socialism,” capitalism” and “free market” in books published from 1800 to 2008.  Click on the link at the bottom of the article to download the PowerPoint chart & analysis.

UK consumer brands conversations

Specialist technological media measurement companies have an obvious interest in overstating the importance of their latest products while advertising agencies and marketing companies also shout long and loud  in order to sell their latest monitoring... Read more...

This chart shows the different categories of brand conversations carried out by UK consumers.  Click on the link at the bottom of the article to download the PowerPoint chart & analysis.

Snippet Video

Online video is a new phenomenon that many consumers have only recently added to their repertoire of media consumption and it is interesting to see how, if at all, this viewing behaviour differs from viewing video on other platforms such as cable, satellite... Read more...

This chart shows aggregated data about online video viewing behaviour for the first 6 months of 2010 from 48 countries.  Click on the link at the bottom of the article to download the PowerPoint chart & analysis.

On-Demand TV

The TV industry is about to go through the kind of painful revolution that the newspaper industry has been struggling through for some time.  Google TV is scheduled to launch around mid-October, and we can expect to see sophisticated related products... Read more...

This chart shows data from a recently released Ericsson ConsumerLab Study that has been investigating what consumers really want in terms of TV consumption.  Click on the link at the bottom of the article to download the PowerPoint chart & analysis.

Are newspapers still too print-centric?

The newspaper industry frequently neglects to look at the wider context in which their products or services are consumed.  Newspaper editorial staff, in my experience, always think that they really know their audiences.  But human behaviour is dynamic,... Read more...

This chart shows how US East Coast consumers gather their news and yet newspapers major on the printed version as their primary offer.  Click on the link at the bottom of the article to download the PowerPoint chart & analysis.