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  • Securing the future of Radio and Audio in connected vehicles

    As connected television sets (CTV) become the latest battleground for TV and video inside the home, outside the home connected vehicles have brought welcome opportunities and new challenges to the consumption of radio and audio media. How is the industry responding? Our most recent International Radio & Audio Conference in… Read more

  • asiCast 195: Publish – and be damned

    ‘There are more lawyers in Meta than social media directors in Brooklyn’, the inimitable Bob Hoffman says, expressing doubt that the recent court rulings against Meta and YouTube in the US would represent a ‘tobacco moment’ in the regulation of social media platforms. In conversation with Brian Jacobs of BJ&A… Read more

  • 2026 launch of the asi New Perspectives Award

    asi has long recognized the importance of encouraging younger people in the media research industry to contribute to our conferences and to the wider discussions and decision-making within the audience measurement, research and insights space. This is even more critical as accelerating change across the industry calls for fresh thinking… Read more

  • Hybrid & AI: New generations of measurement

    There is widespread consensus across the audience measurement community that hybrid measurement solutions combining data from multiple sources with data from people-based representative panels is the model upon which reliable currencies depend. But integrating multiple datasets in this way is not easy, as those engaged in such work in many… Read more

  • Opinion Piece: the AI imperative in audience measurement

    Artificial intelligence sparks both excitement and discomfort amongst many – how are research suppliers using it? Does the future outlook convey beauty or beast? Amongst the many speakers during our joint session at the 2025 Conferences in Copenhagen, Bas de Vos of Kitsune Audiences & Data Consulting shone a light… Read more