‘It’s All About Screens.’ This is the Daily Diary of Screens. Friday, April 29, 2016.
CBS finished #1 broadcast network as The Big Bang Theory‘ was the top program.
In the UK, BBC One finished #1 as ‘MasterChef UK‘ was the top program in Late Peak while ‘EastEnders’ was the top soap.
‘Nine‘ finished #1 in Australia as ‘Seven News‘ was #1 newscast and ‘A Current Affair‘ was the top non-newscast program.
‘The Jungle Book‘ #1 box office in the U.S. weekend 22-24 April 2016.
‘The Jungle Book‘ #1 at the International box office weekend 22-24 April 2016.
Sales of movie theater ads jumped 13.4% in 2015 as it reached $716 million in advertising sales. There are 3.734 Billion Unique Mobile 68% Social Ad Clicks Are Now Mobile. Users as of this quarter, account for a 51% worldwide penetration. Direct uploads of user videos to Facebook now exceed YouTube. Facebook has 1.59 billion monthly users. Instagram has 77.6 million users. 88% of Twitter users are on mobile. An average of 500 million tweets are sent every day. The Google+1 button is hit 5 billion times per day. 80% of Internet users on Pinterest are female. Pinterest has 54.6 million users. LinkedIn has 347 million registered members. Weibo has 100 million daily users. 600 million users on Whatsapp. Facebook has 1.55 billion monthly active users. 60 billion messages are sent via Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp every day. Netflix now has 75 million streaming subscribers. Cliptomize continues to grow as it has 68,041 users and 96,837 clipbooks with 492,406 visitors with over 2.333 million page views. 5 minutes 07 seconds average time spent on spent on site since the beginning. 5 minutes 35 seconds average time spent on site in April. FRIDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS (*SEE BELOW)
Today, traditional TV still accounts for the lion’s share of video viewing, but online and mobile are where the growth is. When managed together, TV/digital/mobile hold the potential to drive real impact for advertisers—enabling them to maximize the customers they reach and/or reinforce key messaging across screens. After all, ‘It’s all about screens’. See ‘The Death Of Television Is Under-Exaggerated‘ @ http://bit.ly/DeathofTelevision.
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For Thursday, April 28, 2016 (Posted on April 29, 2016)
CBS
The Tiffany Network led an all original lineup Thursday and was #1 in every half hour in prime time.
8P ‘The Big Bang Theory‘ finished #1 overall with an average 13.859 million viewers and a 9.3/16.
830P ‘The Odd Couple‘ finished #1 in the time slot with an average 8.401 million viewers and a 5.1/8.
9P ‘Mom‘ finished #1 in the time slot with an average 8.410 million viewers and a 5.3/9.
930P ‘2 Broke Girls‘ finished #1 in the time slot with an average 6.618 million viewers and a 4.2/7.
10P ‘Rush Hour‘ finished #1 in the time slot with an average 4.630 million viewers and a 2.6/5.
ESPN
The Entertainment & Sports Network finished #2 overall on Thursday as the football draft show was front and center with Boomer and the gang.
8P ‘NFL Draft‘ finished with an average 6.289 million viewers.
ABC
The Alphabet Network
8P ‘Grey’s Anatomy‘ finished with an average 7.798 million viewers and a 6.1/10.
9P ‘Scandal‘ finished with an average 6.312 million viewers and a 5.0/8.
10P ‘The Catch‘ finished with an average 4.604 million viewers and a 3.6/6.
NBC
The Peacock Network
8P ‘Strong‘ finished with an average 2.688 million viewers and a 1.8/3.
9P ‘The Blacklist‘ finished with an average 6.561 million viewers and a 5.0/8. The long suffering nightmare of Liz’ death appears to be over and in the past two episodes, we have learned more about the relationship than in the past two years. However, positioned in-between two of the weakest programs on this network, one of televisions best dramas has a constant battle for viewership.
10P ‘Game of Silence‘ finished with an average 3.192 million viewers and a 2.1/3.
Univision
The #1 Hispanic Network in America on Tuesday hit a home run as the finale of its biggest telenovela concluded.
8P ‘Pasión y Poder‘ with a three-hour series finale finished with an average 3.142 million viewers and a 1.4/2 HH rating, peaking with a 1.5/3 at 10P.
FOX
The Animal Network Of Broadcast
8P ‘Bones‘ finished with an average 4.312 million viewers and a 2.8/5.
9P ‘American Grit‘ finished wth an average 2.185 million viewers and a 1.3/2.
The CW
8P ‘D.C.s Legends of Tomorrow‘ finished with an average 1.849 million viewers and a 1.4/2.
9P ‘The 100‘ finished with an average 1.277 million viewers and a 0.9/1.
Telemundo
The Avis of Hispanic Networks in America had a big gig of its own on Thursday.
8P ‘Premios Billboard de la Música Latina‘ three-hour program episode finished with 1.3/2 HH Rating.
For The Record
CBS finished #1 Thursday in prime time with an average 7.758 million viewers and a 4.9/8.
ESPN finished #1 cable network and #2 overall with an average 3.289 million viewers.
ABC finished #3 with an average 6.238 million viewers and a 4.9/8.
NBC finished #4 with an average 4.147 million viewers and a 2.8/5.
FOX finished #5 with an average 3.249 million viewers and a 2.0/3.
UNI finished #6 with an average 3.142 million viewers and a 1.4/2.
FOXNC finished #7 with an average 2.435 million viewers.
NFL finished #8 with an average 2.039 million viewers.
TNT finished #9 with an average 1.800 million viewers.
The CW finished #10 with an average 1.563 million viewers and a 1.2/2.
NBCSN finished #11 with an average 1.520 million viewers.
HGTV finished #12 with an average 1.475 million viewers.
TEL finished #13 with an average TBA million viewers and a 1.3/2.
ADSM finished #14 with an average 1.192 million viewers.
TBS finished #15 with an average 1.110 million viewers.
Total viewership in the U.S. Thursday during prime time finished with an estimated average 51.337 million viewers.
Broadcast (English Speaking) Networks on Thursday in prime time finished with an average 22.955 million viewers (44.8%).
Cable (top 150 Programs) Networks on Thursday in prime time finished with an average 28.382 million viewers (55.2% share).
Today In Communication History
On this date in 1961, ABC’s ‘Wide World of Sports’ premiered.
NOTE: We have entered a new era in screen ratings. Nielsen is expanding its sample of TV viewers to include new
homes with meters that record the channel being watched—but not the demographics of the people watching. That will be estimated using data modeling and an algorithm Nielsen has developed, and added to the current sample that does include people meters that measure demos. The Panel Expansion (NPX), in which 12,900 households have been added to the national sample, is at the center of this change. The household ratings in these homes are measured by meters on each television in the home, while the demographic ratings in these homes will be assigned by Nielsen using a statistical algorithm. This is the first time since 1987 that homes in the national sample are not equipped with PeopleMeters, which measure both the program viewed and the people watching it.
Quote Of The Day
‘In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.’
Nikos Kazantzakis
Mobile Research
Smartphone Owners Want In-Store Messaging When In Stores
Some 74% of adult mobile device owners claim to want to receive messages from a store or business during a visit, per a survey of 2,115 US adults (18+) from Euclid Analytics. However, giving consent and choosing when messages are received are important to a sizable share of respondents, although the medium (how they receive the messages) appears to be the most important factor.
Previous research on this topic has yielded conflicting results: that in-store alerts are both welcomed and annoying.
The following data points sourced from recent research.
While smartphone owners continue to have a strong appetite for content on their devices, such as watching video (81% doing so) and playing online games (69%), they are also facing some frustrating challenges, per a report from Accenture. For example, more than 8 in 10 are unhappy with mobile advertising interfering with their experience, more than 6 in 10 are concerned about the security of financial transactions conducted over their devices, and 60% are dissatisfied with their connectivity and experience and would switch providers. The results are based off a survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 global markets.
They may be unhappy with their experiences, but smartphone owners, as noted above in the Accenture survey, are pressing forward with their use of their devices for digital content. In fact, according to a survey from Limelight Networks, the mobile phone has now narrowly displaced the personal computer as the device to which American adults most often download content. As relates to the content downloaded, the results indicate that movies and TV shows, new apps/updates to apps and music are the most frequently downloaded content types. The most frustrating thing about downloading content, per the survey, is the length of time it takes to complete, though interruptions are also frustrating to many.
Television Research
Netflix Tops HBO
Netflix has overtaken HBO for the first time as the premium TV or subscription video-on-demand service that Americans perceive to have the “best” original content, per a Morgan Stanley survey reported here by Variety. Separate results from the survey show that original content is a major factor in continued membership for 45% of Netflix subscribers, up from 34% last year. Interestingly, Netflix subscribers are heavy media consumers, being more likely to subscribe to HBO, Showtime and Starz than non-Netflix subscribers.
Digital Research
Business Want ROI On Content Delivery
Marketers’ biggest concerns when investing in content are gaining deeper insights beyond clicks and views (59%) and being able to accurately measure ROI (58%), with fewer concerned with measuring content-driven conversion behavior or deeper content engagement. That’s according to a survey of 500 marketers from Rapt Media, which also found that 60% of business marketers are unable to measure ROI on the content they produce. That brings to mind recent research from Rundown, in which only 18% of content marketers reported a clear understanding of the ROI their content delivers.
Marketing Research
Marketers Are Interested In Mobile Push Features
Interest & Investment On Location-Based Targeting Is Playing A More Important Role As Brands Look to Mobile-Focused Technology To Create More Effective Campaigns
Marketing technology is slowly working its way onto the agendas of local marketing executives. According to a survey of “national-to-local” advertisers by Street Fight—referring to big national brands that are focusing on local-level campaigns—many are investigating how mobile-focused marketing technology tools can help create more effective and engaging campaigns.
When asked about the technologies they were interested in exploring, 41% of US national-to-local marketing decision makers said they were interested in exploring mobile push offerings. Nearly a third mentioned real-time location data.
National-to-local advertisers’ interest in mobile push is not surprising given previous reports of its ability to retain mobile users. Research on mobile app retention rates by mobile marketing automation firm Kahuna found that those who opted to receive push notifications were much more likely than those who did not receive such notifications to continue using the app over the 30-, 60-, and 90-day periods studied.
On a similar note, interest and spending on location-based targeting is playing a more important role in mobile marketing campaigns, particularly for in-app advertising.
A separate study from Juniper Research predicted that mobile in-app spending using context or location-based targeted would increase from $13 billion in 2015 to $44 billion by 2020.
Retailers Failing To Meet Customers’ Expectations
Retailers are failing to meet customers’ expectations, averaging an overall performance score of 40% on four core competencies: consistency; content; convenience; and context. That’s according to an IBM evaluation of 550 brick-and-mortar and pure play retailers across 8 different segments and 23 countries. Retailers fared worst in the contextual criteria, as fewer than 1 in 5 analyzed provide personalized name, product content and marketing messages in at least one digital touchpoint.
Only 1 in 5 Consumers Globally Feel That Brands Are Open and Honest. Why Does That Matter?
Brands are facing an “authenticity deficit,” according to a new report from Cohn & Wolfe, which finds just 22% of consumers surveyed around the world agreeing that brands and companies today are open and honest. While brands fared worst on that measure, they didn’t do much better on others: for example, just 1 in 4 respondents agree that brands can be trusted. Likewise, only 1 in 4 feel that brands make the world a better place, and slightly fewer (23%) agree that they uphold high values.
The “authenticity deficit” described appears to exist across the world, based on the survey of 12,000 consumers across 14 markets, though it varies relatively widely across countries. The most positive countries are China and Indonesia, but only 36% and 35% of respondents there, respectively, feel that brands are open and honest. The most negative country, meanwhile, is Sweden, where just 5% agree. The US is right around the global average, with 23% feeling that brands are open and honest.
The importance of authenticity has been outlined in several pieces of research:
◎ A recent study from Havas Worldwide found that honesty/transparency was in the top-3 most important core values consumers feel that brands should embody;
◎ A separate study recently released by Harris Poll showed that dishonesty about products and services is the most damaging scenario for corporate reputations;
◎ An earlier study from Cohn & Wolfe indicated that honest communications about products (91%) and sustainability measures (87%) were 2 of the top 4 behaviors most important for brands to display; and
◎ Research from Initiative demonstrates that trustworthiness and authenticity are 2 of the top 5 brand attributes for Millennials around the globe.
Indeed, the latest Cohn & Wolfe study finds 88% of consumers worldwide saying they would reward a brand for its authenticity. Most commonly, consumers would recommend the brand to others (52%), remain loyal to the brand (49%) and value the brand (48%), though a brand’s authenticity would also attract 1 in 5 to want to work for the company or to invest in it.
So how to define authenticity? According to the study, authenticity depends on how much consumers perceive a brand to be:
◎ Reliable: delivering on promises; being high quality;
◎ Respectful: treating customers well; protecting customer privacy/data; and
◎ Real: communicating honestly; being genuine and real, not artificial; and acting with integrity.
These attributes are important as they relate to how consumers experience the brand, as opposed to attributes such as purposefulness and responsibility, which are attributes that consumers must learn. In fact, the study found that how a brand directly treats the consumer (69%) is more important to respondents than its clarity about its beliefs (59%) and how it treats the planet (55%).
In ranking the most authentic brands (from a base of about 1600), Cohn & Wolfe note that brands performed better on the “reliable” and “respectful” dimensions of authenticity than on their perceptions of being “real.” Of course, the top brands delivered above-average scores on each of those dimensions. As for those top brands? The top 10 are:
Disney
BMW
Microsoft
Amazon
Apple
Intel
Audi
Samsung
Adidas and
Lego.
Finally, on an industry basis, the automotive sector scored highest, fueled by scores on the “reliable” and “respectful” clusters and in particular on the individual attributes of “high quality” and “treats customer well.” Auto was closely followed by technology, which performed well in each of the authenticity clusters, and particularly strongly in the individual traits of “high quality,” “protects customer data,” and “communicates honestly.” Of note, however, the financial industry out-performed the technology industry in terms of customer data protection, with this supported by other research finding that customers are most trusting of financial institutions to protect their data.
The industries that are least authentic? The telecommunications industry, and just above it, the health industry. Both had trouble with the “real” authenticity cluster, particularly with communicating honestly and being seen as genuine and real, not artificial.
About the Data: Cohn & Wolfe describes its methodology in part as follows:
“Building on the past insights from our three annual reports, we have compiled – for the first time – the Authentic 100, a list of the highest ranking brands in the world, based on consumer perception of authenticity. We surveyed 12,000 consumers in 14 markets on more than 1,600 brands. Research was conducted in Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States from September through October 2015.”
Cinema News
Box Office Weekend 22-24 April 2016 (Domestic)
#1 ‘The Jungle Book’ $ 60.80 million in 4,028 theaters
#2 ‘Huntsman’ $ 20.08 million in 3.791 theaters
#3 ‘Barbershop:Next Cut’ $ 10.83 million in 2,676 theaters
#4 ‘Zootopia’ $ 6.61 million in 2,798 theaters
#5 ‘The Boss’ $ 6.08 million in 3,375 theaters
#6 ‘Batman vs Superman’ $ 5.52 million in 3.066 theaters
#7 ‘Criminal’ $ 3.10 million in 2.683 theaters
#8 ‘My Big Fat Greek Wed..’$ 2.10 million in 1,749 theaters
#9 ‘Compadres’ $ 1.35 million in 368 theaters
#10 ‘Eye In The Sky’ $ 1.22 million in 838 theaters
Box Office Weekend 22-24 April 2016 (International)
#1 ‘The Jungle Book’ $ 96.0 million in 50 territories
#2 ‘Huntsman’ $ 32.1 million in 62 territories
#3 ‘Zootopia’ $ 10.8 million in 54 territories
#4 ‘Batman vs Superman’ $ 8.1 million in 54 territories
#5 ‘Crew’ $ 5.0 million in 38 territories
Coming Soon
‘Jason Bourne’ starring Matt Damon, Alicia Vikander, Julia Stiles, Tommy Lee Jones and Vincent Cassel.
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Across The Pond
BBC One
The Big One
7P ‘EastEnders‘ finished as the #1 soap Thursday in the UK with 5.9 million viewers and a 31% share.
8P ‘MasterChef‘ finished wth an average 4.7 million viewers.
9P ‘Secret Britain‘ finished with an average 2.5 million viewers and a 12% share.
BBC Two
The Little Two
8P ‘Meet the Moose Family-Natural World‘ finished with an average 1.3 million.
9P ‘Line of Duty‘ season finale finished with an average 4.1 million viewers and a 21% share. It generated 25,000 Tweets.
ITV
The Independent One
730P ‘Emmerdale‘ finished with an average 5.5 million viewers.
8P ‘Emmerdale‘ finished with an average 5.0 million viewers.
9P ‘What Would Be Your Miracle?‘ finished with an average 1.7 million viewers and an 8% share.
Channel 4
The Big Four
8P ‘Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It’ finished with an average 1.3 million viewers.
9P ‘The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis‘ finished with an average 1.2 million viewers and a 6% share.
Channel 5
The Viacom Five
8P ‘On Benefits: Life on the Dole‘ finished with an average 808,000 viewers.
Down Under
With all of the rules in the kitchen and first dates out of the way,
Nine finished #1 Thursday in Australia with a 28.4% share of the available audience
Seven finished #2 with a 27.7% share.
ABC finished #3 with a 19.2% share of the available audience.
Ten finished #4 with a 17.7% share.
SBS finished #5 Thursday in Australia with a 6.8% share of the available audience.
Top Ten Non-Newscast Programs In Australia Thursday
#1 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 839,000 271,000 245,000 148,000 92,000 83,000
#2 THE CHECKOUT ABC 802,000 250,000 223,000 126,000 89,000 113,000
#3 HOME AND AWAY Seven 767,000 216,000 192,000 173,000 77,000 109,000
#4 7.30 ABC 733,000 237,000 190,000 133,000 82,000 92,000
#5 HOUSE RULES-THU Seven 686,000 213,000 149,000 146,000 65,000 113,000
#6 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 629,000 191,000 181,000 105,000 61,000 92,000
#7 JANET KING ABC 628,000 205,000 153,000 118,000 66,000 86,000
#8 HOT SEAT Nine 589,000 164,000 205,000 140,000 40,000 40,000
#9 GOGGLEBOX TEN 548,000 129,000 232,000 50,000 66,000 71,000
#10 FAMILY FEUD TEN 542,000 133,000 186,000 97,000 48,000 78,000
Top Newscasts In Australia Thursday
#1 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,054,000 262,000 270,000 193,000 131,000 198,000
#2 NINE NEWS Nine 971,000 267,000 363,000 200,000 81,000 60,000
#3 SEVEN News/TodayTonight Seven 968,000 241,000 272,000 168,000 111,000 175,000
#4 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine 933,000 260,000 343,000 179,000 89,000 62,000
#5 ABC NEWS ABC 795,000 241,000 235,000 125,000 87,000 108,000
FRIDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS
Friday Australian Overnight TV Ratings
FRIDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS
Seven finished #1 Friday in Australia with a 33.6% share of the available audience.
Nine finished #2 with a 27.1% share.
Ten finished #3 with a 18.0% share of the available audience.
ABC finished #4 with a 16.0% share.
SBS finished #5 Friday in Australia with a 5.3% share of the available audience.
Top Ten Non-Newscast TV Programs in Australia Friday
#1 A CURRENT AFFAIR Nine 735,000 viewers #1 in Sydney
#2 BETTER HOMES & GARDENS Seven 705,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
#3 THE CHASE AUSTRALIA Seven 641,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#4 GRANTCHESTER ABC 601,000 viewers #1 in Perth
#5T AFL:FRI NIGHT FOOTBALL Seven 536,000 viewers #1 in Adelaide
#5T THE LIVING ROOM TEN 536,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#7 FAMILY FEUD TEN 526,000 viewers Sydney top market
#8 HOT SEAT Nine 510,000 viewers #1 in Brisbane
#9 THE PROJECT 7PM TEN 485,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#10 7.30 ABC 463,000 viewers Sydney top market
To Newscasts In Australia Friday
#1 SEVEN NEWS Seven 1,041,000 viewers #1 in Sydney, Adelaide & Perth
#2 NINE NEWS 6:30 Nine 949,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
#3 NINE NEWS Nine 930,000 viewers #1 in Brisbane
#4 SEVEN News/TodayTonight Seven 900,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#5 ABC NEWS ABC 683,000 viewers Sydney top market
#6 TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS @5P TEN 512,000 viewers Melbourne top market
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