This Week In Media Measurement

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This Week in Media Measurement tracks research on how media, platforms, and marketing are measured, from social media and web analytics to campaign evaluation, audience behavior, AI-driven content, and privacy-preserving methods. Subscribe for the premium version of this podcast: https://paperboy.fm/podcasts/media-measurement/subscribe

  1. 8h ago

    Do Ratings Change Enjoyment? Plus: Engagement-Driven News

    New work on ratings, Facebook news engagement, and AI-generated marketing points to media measurement as an intervention, not just a scoreboard. Covers 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-07; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers. This Week in Media Measurement tracks research on how media, platforms, and marketing are measured, from social media and web analytics to campaign evaluation, audience behavior, AI-driven content, and privacy-preserving methods. Episode covers 2026-09-30 – 2026-10-07. Top papers A Model of the Attention Economy: Data, Platforms, and Discovery Modelling the feedback-driven dynamics of news coverage and engagement on social media Rating an Experience Makes People Notice How It Is Changing: Consequences for Hedonic Adaptation and Consumer Enjoyment Web crawling and RSS as media monitoring tools: experience in development and application THE EVOLUTION OF DIGITAL ADVERTISING DESIGN IN NIGERIA (2015–2025): NAVIGATING SCROLLS, DATA, AND CULTURE Themes: social media, consumer behavior, digital media, social media marketing, digital transformation, media literacy, teacher training, digital communication Methods: survey, quantitative, qualitative, cross-sectional, case-study, descriptive Premium News Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including truescope.com — Boolean Search for Media Monitoring: Operators, strings, and the ..., mezha.net — 英国监管机构提议要求谷歌开放搜索选择,ChatGPT和Perplexity或进入名单 | Mezha, and fox23maine.com — Congress heads toward midterms without answers to growing AI concerns. Upgrade to Premium The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

    Do Ratings Change Enjoyment? Plus: Engagement-Driven News
  2. 6d ago

    Are Engagement Metrics Noisy? Plus: Visual Motion and Short-Form Video

    New papers on short-form recommendation, children’s video motion, and algorithmic feeds show how clean-looking engagement numbers can hide measurement artifacts. Covers 2026-09-23 to 2026-09-30; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers. This Week in Media Measurement tracks research on how media, platforms, and marketing are measured, from social media and web analytics to campaign evaluation, audience behavior, AI-driven content, and privacy-preserving methods. Episode covers 2026-09-23 – 2026-09-30. Top papers Mend the Measurement Gap: Latent User Preference Modeling for Short-Form Video Recommendation Location intelligence in advertising: effects of advertising localism on competitor spillovers Trustworthy synthetic visual media: Evidence across the media lifecycle ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VISUAL STORYTELLING AND LOCAL WISDOM-BASED COPYWRITING ON SHORT-FORM VIDEO CONTENT: A CASE STUDY OF MAGIC COFFEE MSME JAYAPURA Modeling the Cognitive Effects of Social Media Algorithms With Textual and Behavioral Data: A Deep Hybrid DistilBERT , BiLSTM , and CatBoost Analysis Themes: social media, digital marketing, digital media, elementary education, consumer behavior, social media addiction, education, social media marketing Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, cross-sectional, Research and Development, case-study Premium News Premium also covers 9 related news stories, including mediablog.prnewswire.com — New AI Chatbot at New York Post, an MS NOW Subscription ..., democracynow.org — Trump Admin Sides with OpenAI in Legal Fight with New York Times and Other Newspapers, and eciks.org — Technology news: Reuters, TechCrunch and CNBC round up top stories. Upgrade to Premium The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 9 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

    Are Engagement Metrics Noisy? Plus: Visual Motion and Short-Form Video
  3. Sep 23

    Do Likes Predict Fan Spending? Plus: Algorithmic Stratification

    This week follows the gap between easy media metrics and harder outcomes, from Saudi Pro League fan spending to biased recommendation pipelines and ad measurement limits. Covers 2026-09-16 to 2026-09-23; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers. This Week in Media Measurement tracks research on how media, platforms, and marketing are measured, from social media and web analytics to campaign evaluation, audience behavior, AI-driven content, and privacy-preserving methods. Episode covers 2026-09-16 – 2026-09-23. Top papers Open Platform Field Experiments: Expanding the Design Space of Experimental Research on Social Media Key digital advertising measurement challenges in Kazakhstan From digital interaction to fan spending through platform-based participation in the Saudi Pro League's fan ecosystem Perceived influence of media campaigns and immunization awareness in rural Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir: A cross-sectional evaluation of selection Bias in digital survey methodology. Promoting a personalized vaccine information website through social media and local outreach: a dissemination and implementation study. Themes: social media, digital marketing, mental health, social media marketing, student engagement, consumer behavior, misinformation, digital transformation Methods: survey, quantitative, qualitative, cross-sectional, case-study, descriptive Premium News Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including mediaplaynews.com — Roku, Horizon Media Partner for CTV Marketing, Data Tracking - Media Play News, exchange4media.com — As India resets TV ratings, digital's measurement black boxes loom larger, and mrweb.com — TAM India Looking to Return as Currency Provider - MrWeb. Upgrade to Premium The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

    Do Likes Predict Fan Spending? Plus: Algorithmic Stratification
  4. Sep 18

    Are Instagram Giveaways Gaming Metrics? Plus: Fan Tokens to GTV

    New work links football fan-token engagement to transaction value while warning that Instagram giveaways and automated news labels can reshape what media teams think they measured. Covers 2026-09-09 to 2026-09-16; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers. This Week in Media Measurement tracks research on how media, platforms, and marketing are measured, from social media and web analytics to campaign evaluation, audience behavior, AI-driven content, and privacy-preserving methods. Episode covers 2026-09-09 – 2026-09-16. Top papers From engagement to gross transaction value: NFTs, fan tokens and fan engagement in Brazilian and Argentine football Digital Marketing Strategies for Improving Sales Conversion on E-Commerce Platforms: An Empirical Study Implementation of wide-reaching online advertising campaigns: evaluating the effectiveness of advertising channels Software Development of Business Intelligence Dashboards: Empirical Study of COSMIC ISO/IEC 19761 Size-Based Effort Estimation Using Machine Learning Techniques Web cookies and AI chatbots as conversion catalysts: the mediating role of customer personalization in e-entrepreneurship Themes: social media, social media marketing, digital marketing, Instagram, learning media, mental health, Social Media Marketing, consumer behavior Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, case-study, cross-sectional, descriptive Premium News Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including medianama.com — India's TV ratings policy brings connected TV into measurement, amp.dw.com — CIBAR Talk Summer Edition 2026, and bestmediainfo.com — As govt works on BARC ratings return, here are five key takeaways. Upgrade to Premium The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

    Are Instagram Giveaways Gaming Metrics? Plus: Fan Tokens to GTV
  5. Sep 10

    Can MQI replace EMV? Plus: LLMs predicting reactions

    This week, media measurement shifts from loose EMV and dashboard proxies toward explicit models of mention quality, algorithmic prediction, rumor visibility, and playback experience. Covers 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-09; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers. This Week in Media Measurement tracks research on how media, platforms, and marketing are measured, from social media and web analytics to campaign evaluation, audience behavior, AI-driven content, and privacy-preserving methods. Episode covers 2026-09-02 – 2026-09-09. Top papers Replacing Undefined Earned Media Value Metrics with a Rigorous Mention Quality and Impact (MQI) and Mention Earned Media Value (mEMV) Framework Persona-prompted LLM agents achieve modest but genuine prediction of human social media reactions Algorithmic deception: a scoping review of mass communication research on algorithmic dissemination of mis- and disinformation, propaganda, fake news, and conspiracy theories Feature Based Survey on Fake News Detection: Statistical and Semantic Multimodal Graph Neural Networks and Evolutionary Knowledge Fusion for Secure and Explainable Governance in Intelligent IoT Interactive Media Systems. Themes: social media, student engagement, consumer behavior, adolescents, digital media, brand awareness, mental health, digital marketing Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, case-study, descriptive, content analysis Premium News Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including p2pi.com — ANA Releases Framework for Retail Media Measurement Standardization, measured.com — How to Measure TV and CTV Incrementality: 2026 Methods ..., and medianama.com — India's TV ratings policy brings connected TV into measurement. Upgrade to Premium The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

    Can MQI replace EMV? Plus: LLMs predicting reactions
  6. Sep 3

    96% Undisclosed Sponsored Tweets + Opaque Popularity Metrics

    From 100 million tweets to Chinese video-platform popularity metrics, this episode follows how measurement breaks when disclosure, data access, and algorithms stay opaque. Covers 2026-08-26 to 2026-09-02; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers. This Week in Media Measurement tracks research on how media, platforms, and marketing are measured, from social media and web analytics to campaign evaluation, audience behavior, AI-driven content, and privacy-preserving methods. Episode covers 2026-08-26 – 2026-09-02. Top papers Quantifying the Nondisclosure of Influencer Advertising on Social Media Radical populist parties receive greater audience support on social media: a cross-platform monitoring of digital campaigning for the 2024 European Parliament election LEGAL AND ETHICAL REGULATION OF DIGITAL ADVERTISING AND PR COMMUNICATIONS IN THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT: TRANSPARENCY, RESPONSIBILITY AND AUDIENCE PROTECTION Datificación social y auditabilidad informacional: aplicación exploratoria al caso brasileño From Popularity to Governance: Media Discourse on Television Platforms Themes: social media, digital media, digital marketing, elementary education, consumer behavior, media framing, mental health, political communication Methods: survey, quantitative, qualitative, cross-sectional, content analysis, quasi-experimental Premium News Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including measured.com — How to Measure TV and CTV Incrementality: 2026 Methods ..., news.broadcastmediaafrica.com — BMA Unveils Survey To Transform Advertising And Audience Measurement Across Africa - Broadcast Media Africa, and digiday.com — ANA continues attempt to standardize RMN measurement. Upgrade to Premium The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

    96% Undisclosed Sponsored Tweets + Opaque Popularity Metrics
  7. Aug 19

    Federated attribution + Twi-XL: Can cross-media signals stay private?

    Federated social marketing attribution and the Dutch Twi-XL infrastructure frame a week focused on private, comparable cross-media signals and credibility beyond clicks. Covers 2026-08-12 to 2026-08-19; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers. This Week in Media Measurement tracks research on how media, platforms, and marketing are measured, from social media and web analytics to campaign evaluation, audience behavior, AI-driven content, and privacy-preserving methods. Episode covers 2026-08-12 – 2026-08-19. Top papers Construction of a Dynamic Evaluation System for Cross-Platform Social Media Marketing Effectiveness Integrating Federated Learning Platform Adaptation Under Governance Interventions: Actor Best-Response Modeling and an External Public-Case Benchmark Expressive authenticity as a behavioral buffer: how advertising recognition shapes engagement in social commerce Twi-XL: An Infrastructure for Cross-Media Research in the Netherlands Research on E-Commerce Social Relationship Modeling and Marketing Path Optimization Method Based on Graph Neural Network Themes: social media, digital marketing, consumer behavior, educational technology, sentiment analysis, public health, educational media, social media marketing Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, case-study, Research and Development, cross-sectional Premium News Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including medianews4u.com — Chrome DM's Pankaj Krishna Proposes Unified Cross-Platform ..., logarithmic.com — Cross-Media Measurement Demands a Privacy Infrastructure ..., and iabeurope.eu — [Guest Member Blog] Europe's Marketers Just Told Us ... Upgrade to Premium The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

    Federated attribution + Twi-XL: Can cross-media signals stay private?
  8. Aug 13

    Does Twitter attention become donations? Plus: trust in AI news

    Media measurement looks less settled when likes become donations, livestream cues move sales, and audiences judge AI-generated search results against AI-labeled news. Covers 2026-08-05 to 2026-08-12; 5 free papers from 40 selected papers. This Week in Media Measurement tracks research on how media, platforms, and marketing are measured, from social media and web analytics to campaign evaluation, audience behavior, AI-driven content, and privacy-preserving methods. Episode covers 2026-08-05 – 2026-08-12. Top papers AI-Enabled Integrity in Social Networks and Media Verbal and nonverbal cues in influencer performance: a deep learning perspective on livestreaming e-commerce “The sound of salience”: a tridimensional perspective on issue salience formation Corporate liability for social media marketing strategy and practices: A critical literature review Social Media Influencers in Firm‐Based Marketing Campaign Phases—A Content Analysis and Future Research Agenda Themes: social media, digital media, artificial intelligence, digital communication, digital literacy, young adults, social media marketing, elementary education Methods: survey, qualitative, quantitative, Research and Development, cross-sectional, content analysis Premium News Premium also covers 10 related news stories, including nielseniq.com — Measure Retail Media Incrementality and Prove Impact, iabeurope.eu — [Guest Member Blog] Europe's Marketers Just Told Us ..., and medianews4u.com — Chrome DM's Pankaj Krishna Proposes Unified Cross ... Upgrade to Premium The premium version of this podcast covers all 40 research articles and 10 news stories selected for the episode. Subscribe to the premium podcast. Generated by paperboy.fm.

    Does Twitter attention become donations? Plus: trust in AI news

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This Week in Media Measurement tracks research on how media, platforms, and marketing are measured, from social media and web analytics to campaign evaluation, audience behavior, AI-driven content, and privacy-preserving methods. Subscribe for the premium version of this podcast: https://paperboy.fm/podcasts/media-measurement/subscribe