Nielsen Streaming Ratings

[Disney Irish]

Your kidding? I've never gotten one, never been contacted by Nielsen, and never known anyone in my life ever who was contacted by them, much less an actual Nielsen Family. It was always so mysterious! I had no idea they still sent out actual tracking boxes to homes to hook up to individual TV sets; I'd assumed it was all done remotely now with real-time data from the actual broadcasters and streamers. That surprised me that there are physical boxes/equipment being sent to me.

The second survey I got was quite exhaustive, but they know everything about me now and still seem to want me. I'm so excited to be the man to get The Love Boat back on the air in Saturday night primetime where it belongs! Stay tuned...

Yep, like I said I get one every other year, never sign up. I even get the JD Power surveys with a dollar begging for my opinion. That one I did actually do one time, but never after that.

So I must be on a list of desirable consumers.

 

[TP2000]

Yep, like I said I get one every other year, never sign up. I even get the JD Power surveys with a dollar begging for my opinion. That one I did actually do one time, but never after that.

That's incredible. Like I said, I've been a TV watcher for many decades and I've never known anyone who got an invite letter from the Nielsen folks, let alone accepted as a full fledged Nielsen Family. As you can imagine, I was giggling all the way in from the mailbox!

I re-read some of the stuff they already sent me. I'm not supposed to disclose this information on Social Media, and I'll keep it off of my Facebook but I doubt this weird little backwater forum counts as "Social Media", especially since we don't use real names here. I'm only supposed to discuss this with my "immediate household". That's a bummer, but I understand. Still, it would be so incredible to be approved to use the following pickup line towards last call...

Would you like to go back to my place and see my Nielsen box?

But I did call my sister tonight to tell her the news, who I feel is safe as she's on absolutely no Social Media, and the first words out of her mouth were; "You're kidding?!?... Aunt Ingrid would be so jealous!" And then we died laughing.

So I must be on a list of desirable consumers.

For such a young man, your life experiences seemingly know no bounds!

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[Disney Irish]

That's incredible. Like I said, I've been a TV watcher for many decades and I've never known anyone who got an invite letter from the Nielsen folks, let alone accepted as a full fledged Nielsen Family. As you can imagine, I was giggling all the way in from the mailbox!

I re-read some of the stuff they already sent me. I'm not supposed to disclose this information on Social Media, and I'll keep it off of my Facebook but I doubt this weird little backwater forum counts as "Social Media", especially since we don't use real names here. I'm only supposed to discuss this with my "immediate household". That's a bummer, but I understand. Still, it would be so incredible to be approved to use the following pickup line towards last call...

Would you like to go back to my place and see my Nielsen box?

But I did call my sister tonight to tell her the news, who I feel is safe as she's on absolutely no Social Media, and the first words out of her mouth were; "You're kidding?!?... Aunt Ingrid would be so jealous!" And then we died laughing.



For such a young man, your life experiences seemingly know no bounds!

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Yes, the idea is they don’t want your watching habits influenced by social media. So they want it to be as anonymous as possible. As I recall from my inquiry into it they even want you to forget you have the tracking box and just go about your normal watching habits. If you watch some program during prime time religiously, continue doing it. Don’t change your habits to try and “game” the system, etc. Sorry, no putting Love Boat on repeat all day.

Also I’m not that young, I’m middle aged lol. Born prior to the Carter Administration.

 

[TP2000]

If you watch some program during prime time religiously, continue doing it.

That means Gutfeld! and The Five and Antiques Roadshow are here to stay, baby!

Don’t change your habits to try and “game” the system, etc. Sorry, no putting Love Boat on repeat all day.

As Lesley Gore so wisely said, you don't own me. I'm going to seek out The Love Boat and log it into my favorites on my very smart and very fancy TV's that I have around the house. Nielsen will also be monitoring what I'm watching on YouTube if it's playing on my TV sets, which I found particularly interesting.

I'm not sure those Nielsen folks know what's coming, but it's going to improve our TV options ASAP!

 

[Disney Irish]

That means Gutfeld! and The Five and Antiques Roadshow are here to stay, baby!

Yes because I'm sure they were in trouble of being cancelled if not for you watching as a new Nielsen member.

As Lesley Gore so wisely said, you don't own me. I'm going to seek out The Love Boat and log it into my favorites on my very smart and very fancy TV's that I have around the house. The Nielsen gang will also be monitoring what I'm watching on YouTube if it's playing on any of my TV sets, which I found particularly interesting.

I'm not sure those Nielsen folks know what's coming, but it's going to improve our TV options ASAP!

You do realize that they can tell if you're trying to "game" the system, right? Its not like they haven't been doing this tracking for decades and know all the tricks to "game" the system. If they see you're watching the same things over and over and over on repeat, they'll do things like just still mark it as a single view. Its how they account for anomalies.

 

[TP2000]

You do realize that they can tell if you're trying to "game" the system, right? Its not like they haven't been doing this tracking for decades and know all the tricks to "game" the system. If they see you're watching the same things over and over and over on repeat, they'll do things like just still mark it as a single view. Its how they account for anomalies.

Apparently there's an exit interview type thing when they ask for the boxes back. I'm going to have to explain why I used Amazon Prime to marathon binge Airport/Airport '75/Airport '77/Concorde '79 all in one Saturday in March.

But I think once they get me on the phone and get to know me, they'll politely say "Okay, sir, I get it. Thank you for your service."

 

[Disney Irish]

Apparently there's an exit interview type thing when they ask for the boxes back. I'm going to have to explain why I used Amazon Prime to marathon binge Airport/Airport '75/Airport '77/Concorde '79 all in one Saturday in March.

But I think once they get me on the phone and get to know me, they'll politely say "Okay, sir, I get it. Thank you for your service."

Yeah, its not the indepth I'm sure, so they aren't going to ask about particular content you watched. More likely, did you enjoy the experience, etc., normal exit interview stuff for when you cancel a service.