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...Launched on TNT in October, the show attracts an audience of roughly 905,000 according to Nielsen....
...Univision often attracts larger audiences than US broadcasters such as NBC and CBS in cities with large Latino populations, such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Miami and Houston, according to Nielsen, the media...
...In the first quarter of this year, the industry splashed an estimated $6.75bn on advertising — almost 10 per cent of total ad spending — in the 40 leading markets covered by research firm Nielsen....
...Univision touts this trend-bucking growth to advertisers eager to reach Hispanic consumers, whom Nielsen projects will wield $1.7tn in buying power by 2019....
...Cable channels owned by Comcast’s NBCUniversal are among those feeling the pinch: at NBCU’s cable channels, which include CNBC, USA Network and Bravo, revenues from advertising fell 5.6 per cent in the fourth...
...to Nielsen only behind the USA v Portugal game, which 24.7m watched on a Sunday....
...Nor should consumer appetite, suggests Todd Hale, senior vice-president of consumer insight at Nielsen, the consumer research company....
...But the company has struck deals to feature content in publications including USA Today and the San Francisco Chronicle....
...NBC Universal does not disclose such numbers, but CNBC is reputed to have become its second-most lucrative channel after USA Networks, with an operating profit of between $300m and $400m....
...Critics - including one reviewer from USA Today, who called the show a “cut-rate, snooze-inducing, rehashed bore” - said digital video recorders would not be NBC’s biggest concern....
...Nielsen (Norway, chemical); STX Shipbuilding (Korea, shipyard); Golar LNG (Norway, Liquefied Natural Gas); TUI (Containers, tourism, Germany). ”With respect to the fundamental market for the major three...
...One of the most high-profile examples of this came in the media industry last year when General Electric’s David Calhoun left the US group to join Nielsen, the Dutch information group that was known as VNU...
...According to Nielsen BuzzMetrics, a system which tracks English language blogs, the music, phone and web device was mentioned by more blogs than either George W....
...A study of online use by Nielsen/Net Ratings, the source of the online reader figures, showed that 58 per cent of people who visited news and information web sites turned to the online site of a newspaper...
...In 1999 the company made a big leap into marketing information, by acquiring US-based Nielsen Media Research (TV audience ratings)....
...Walmart.com’s traffic rose 120 per cent to 3.3m unique users on Friday, the traditional start of the US peak holiday shopping season, according to Nielsen-NetRatings....
...The first two debates have been popular: Friday's match-up drew 46.7m viewers, down from the 62.5m who watched the first debate, according to Nielsen Media Research....
...Moreover, the company has seen double-digit growth in the cable channels inherited from Vivendi - SciFi and USA Networks....
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