The number of TV owners in the US has dropped for the first time in two decades, Nielsen discovered in a study posted Tuesday. Although slight, ownership dropped from 98.9 percent in the last study to 96.7 percent in early 2011. Results had first shown signs of change in 2008 but hadn’t become as clear […]
It took eight LPs, but the Foo Fighters finally got their first No. 1 album in the United States on Wednesday. The band sold 235,000 copies of “Wasting Light” during the week ended Sunday, according to tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan. It ranks as their second-largest sales week, trumped only by the No. 2 launch of […]
Android has take the lead over other smartphone platforms in the US, Nielsen reported today. Between November and January, Android broke a three-way deadlock and claimed 29 percent of the US smartphone market, just ahead of the iPhone and BlackBerry tied at 27 percent. All of Microsoft’s platforms combined were a distant third at 10 […]
The AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, in which the NFC triumphed 55-41, won Fox the night with a 4.4 rating in the 18-49 demo with 12 million viewers, according to preliminary numbers from Nielsen.
Initial ratings show interest is down in “American Idol” and its new team of judges. The Nielsen says 26.1 million people saw the two-hour season premiere Wednesday night of television’s most popular show. That’s down 13 percent from the 29.9 million people who saw last year’s season debut. Nielsen said Thursday it was an even […]
Nielsen for the first time is doing analytics on a video game console network. The goal of the new ratings system is to measure how many people were playing the game at a particular time and, therefore, how many saw the included advertisements during “1 vs. 100”. 1 vs. 100 is a game show that […]
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