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Barb Briefing for Brands

Barb Briefing for Brands: An event for advertisers & media agencies The latest Barb Briefing session explored how Barb data supports the wider industry to measure TV advertising effectiveness. A panel of advertisers and media agencies including Gayle Noah, Global Media Director at L’Oreal alongside Vicky Fox, Chief Planning Officer at OMG UK and Nicola […]

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Q3 2024 SVOD Establishment Survey data

Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, has released data from its Establishment Survey showing that 20.1m UK homes (68.8%) had access to a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service in Q3 2024. This is a slight increase from 20m UK homes (68.7%) in Q2. Barb has again shared an advertising tier estimate for Netflix, […]

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Barb unveils Trustmark

Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, today unveiled its new Trustmark. This quality-assurance indicator is for use by Barb’s customers and other companies that are part of Barb’s Trusted Data Delivery Network. The Trusted Data Delivery Network includes all companies that work with Barb to deliver audience-measurement services that meet the needs […]

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The Media Leader - Effective exposure

Anyone who has spent time working at a trade association, trade marketing body or joint industry measurement organisation will have stories about the challenges of finding common ground among stakeholders. Recent coverage about whether Barb and Isba can work together on cross-media audience measurement is an instance of two such organisations looking for common ground […]

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The Media Leader - CFlight’s evolution

After joining Barb in February and announcing a significant update at the Connected TV World Summit mere weeks later, Luca Vannini, Head of Campaign Audiences, has written an article charting CFlight’s evolution (so far!) this year. Read Luca’s full article c/o The Media Leader UK here:

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Barb extends total campaign planning

Barb, the industry’s standard for understanding what people watch, today 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. […]

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