Category Archives: Google
Tuesday 30th August 2011
I was fortunate to hear Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, speak at the Edinburgh Television Festival and to attend the Question and Answer session the following morning. Schmidt posed one big question — in my view a massively important one: why hasn’t a country like the UK built large technology companies? (He reminded us that the first commercial use of a computer was at the headquarters of J. Lyons, once famous for its tea shops, in West London). For the audience of British TV Executives the question took a … Read more…
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Tuesday 18th January 2011
The lead picture in this post – and nearly all the numbers — come from a piece in January’s Fortune magazine. (Click on the image for the link). The writer, Jessi Hempel, has just received the brick-sized box enabling her to hook-up Google TV, and having played around with some of the cooler functions (like tweeting from her TV (@jessiwrites) she set out to watch some real stuff, namely of a recent episode of the sitcom Modern Family – but it’s not available. Or rather, she can get … Read more…
Tuesday 2nd November 2010
In the UK our staff are always being asked if we can measure the viewing of content on PC’s and laptops. The answer is No, or rather Not Yet, at least not in the way conventional TV is measured. (There are some other options which I will mention later). Traditional audience measurement needs credible, common standards that provide the basis for advertising trading currencies. Audience measurement companies are very aware of the challenges of digital viewing. In the UK BARB is field-testing a device that will … Read more…
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