World Audience Measurement conference – June USA

The Association of Research Professionals (ESOMAR) is holding its World Audience Measurement week during June in Los Angeles.

The Radio Conference component of the conference on Monday 16 June includes:

Panel – KEY ISSUES IN RADIO AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT TODAY

Introduction by moderator George Ivie, Executive Director, Media Rating Council, USA

Panelists:

Robert Patchen, VP, Research Standards and Practices, Arbitron, USA

Matthias Steinmann, CEO, Telecontrol AG, Switzerland

Lee Weinblatt, CEO, The PreTesting Company Inc., USA

HOW THE METERING ISSUES IMPACT MEDIA PLANNING

21st century measurement of 21st century media. PPM’S capture of radio-dial switching.
The new balance between radio reach and time.

Roberta McConochie, Director, Consumer & Industry Trends, Arbitron &
Bruce Goerlich, Senior VP, Research Director, MediaVest Worldwide, USA

Measuring formats – electronic measurement boosts programming

Rolf Mueller, CEO, Publica Data &
Manuel Daehler, Head of Radio Research, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, Switzerland

Programming and marketing in a PPM world

David Rogerson, Managing Director, Strategic Media Solutions, Australia

Does recall-based audience measurement truly represent the audiences of speech stations?

Kelvin MacKenzie, Chairman & Chief Executive & Bill Ridley, Project Executive, The Wireless Group, UK

METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES WITH EXAMPLES

RAEL: A new approach to understanding radio and filling the void in radio sales-effect research

James Peacock, President, Peacock Research Inc., USA, Kaki Hinton, VP, Advertising Services, Branch Watkins, Sr. Director, Market Research Center of Excellence &
Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, USA

Measuring brand equity of radio stations in order to predict future listening behaviour

Dominique Vercraeye, Managing Director, TNS Media &
Daniël Poesmans, Research Manager, VRT, Belgium

Diary and telephone-based measurement of the network radio audience in the United States. A comparison of methods used in the RADAR service

David Lapovsky, Executive VP Worldwide Research, Arbitron &
Thomas Evans, Senior VP, Research, ABC Radio Networks, USA

RADIO ADVERTISING EFFECTIVENESS

Radio – ready to rumble. Clutter vs. frequency in radio … results from the real world

Howard Parry-Husbands, Senior Consultant &
Alan Bowman, Senior Consultant, The Leading Edge Market Research Consultants, Australia

The Canadian RTS Study. A single source study for Canadian radio stations

Craig Dorning, Marketing Manager, Radio, BBM Canada &
Pat Pellegrini, VP, Research, BBM Canada

Finding the “hidden” value of radio as part of a cross-media advertising campaign

Maura Clancey, VP and Managing Director, Knowledge Networks/SRI, USA