
BARB, the official source of TV viewing in the UK, is to collect census data for TV viewing through all computer devices, including tablets.
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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.
Social TV analytics company SecondSync has integrated overnight TV ratings from BARB into its social TV measurement service.

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.

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

The first episode of the new Doctor Who series has become the most recorded UK TV programme of all time.
The BBC is to launch a new audience measurement system that will run alongside the existing ‘overnight’ method of gathering data.
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