BARB to collect online data

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BARB, the official source of TV viewing in the UK, is to collect census data for TV viewing through all computer devices, including tablets. 

SecondSync integrates BARB overnights into social TV dashboard

Social TV analytics company SecondSync has integrated overnight TV ratings from BARB into its social TV measurement service.

Just a minute, on demand viewing is increasing

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The average UK television viewer watched an average of 4 hours, 1 minute a day of linear TV on a TV set, a minute below the record level set in 2011.

Online TV audiences continue to climb

Live TV streaming to tablets

BARB’s bi-annual study into television behaviour via non-TV devices has shown 37% of the UK TV audience has watched TV content via a PC, laptop or tablet device.

500 more homes get BARB web-TV meter

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BARB, the organisation that gathers data on UK television viewing, is to add its web-TV meter into another 500 homes.

Online viewing starts to plateau

Growth in television viewing via the PC, laptop and tablet devices is beginning to plateau.

Doctor Who episode most recorded show of all time

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The first episode of the new Doctor Who series has become the most recorded UK TV programme of all time.

BBC audience data to include iPlayer

The BBC is to launch a new audience measurement system that will run alongside the existing ‘overnight’ method of gathering data.

BARB to study broadband TV measurement

UK audience research organisation BARB is to run a six-month field test to evaluate the benefits of a meter system to measure television content viewed on PCs.