The Nielsen Comapny (us), LLC

The Neilsen Company (us), LLC

Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Nielsen Consumer LLC

Nielsen Media Research, Inc.

Arun Ramaswamy

Dan Nelson

Venugopal Srinivasan

David Howell Wright

Jan Besehanic

Alexander Pavlovich Topchy

Paul Mears

Daniel John Nelson

Robert A Luff

Alan Nguyen Bosworth

Kevin K Gaynor

Brian Scott Mello

Steven John Splaine

Kamal Nasser

Chris Nicotra

Jeff L Herrmann

David Henry Harkness

Robert Stokes

Fred A Martensen

Glen Vilches

Morris Lee

Charles Clinton Conklin

Joseph Gregory Milavsky

David James Croy

Madhusudhan Reddy Alla

William Feininger

Lois Price

Raghuram Ranganathan

Narasimha Reddy Goli

John C Peiffer

Jerome Samson

Paul C Kemper

Kenneth William McArthur

John S Houston

Bradley R Lawrence

Scott L Brown

Karin Johnson

Bo Qiang

Jone Mary Burr

Daniel A Nelson

Wayne Asa Olmsted

Brian Hopkins

Matthew M Campbell

Kevin Keqiang Deng

Jeremey M Davis

Timothy Scott Cooper

Weston Headley

Scott Cooper

Bruce Hoynoski

Kendall E Shirilla

Jean-Pierre Abello

Daniel Nelson

Wayne A Olmstead

John Steven Stavropoulos

Anand Jain

Douglas Brent Turnbow

Vasiliki Koutsopanagos

Stanley F Seagren

Fred Martensen

Christen Voss Nielsen

Brian Fuhrer

Rafael E Alonso

Perry Joseph Fisch

Seth Alan Pelletier

Paul Kempter

Goli Reddy Narasimha

Volkan Aginlar

Min Zhang

Song Chen

Kannan Balaji

Matthew Brian Urtnowski

Jack Andrew Tomlinson

Lei Raymond Lu

Regina Dykstra

Joseph G Milavsky

Arash Sepasi Ahoei

Joseph G Milavasky

Stanley F Seagran

Wayne A Olmsted

David H Harkness

Nasser Kamal

Charles A Conklin

Bradley R Lawrence Iii

Paul M Mears

Kenneth William Mcarthur

Robert Joel Stokes

William A Feininger

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, first instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the first instructions. The first instructions, when executed, are to: instruct a media provider to include second instructions in an application to create an instrumented application and receive data from a media device based on the media device executing the second instructions.

Methods and apparatus to monitor media presentations

Example methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to monitor consumer behavior associated with location-based web services are disclosed. Example disclosed apparatus include a receiver to receive a query from a mobile device including a query criterion and a first location identifier. Disclosed example apparatus further include a database to associate a second location identifier with an advertisement identifier indicative of an advertisement at a fixed location. Disclosed example apparatus also include an analyzer to credit the advertisement indicated by the advertisement identifier as having been exposed to a user of the mobile device in response to the first location identifier matching the second location identifier or the first location identifier being indicative of a first location within a distance of a second location indicated by the second location identifier.

Methods and apparatus to monitor consumer behavior associated with location-based web services

Example methods and apparatus to verify presentation of media content are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus for generating media presentation information includes a comparator to periodically output a value indicative of whether media selected via a set-top box is presented at a media presentation location by comparing a first audio signal associated with the media to ambient audio received in the media presentation location via an audio system associated with a media presentation device. The example apparatus also includes a privacy protector to facilitate operation of the comparator by periodically preventing the comparator from receiving of the ambient audio. The example apparatus also includes a metering module to record presentation of the media based on the output.

Methods and apparatus to verify presentation of media content

Methods and apparatus to perform audio watermarking and watermark detection and extraction are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to select frequency components to be used to represent a code, different sets of frequency components to represent respectively different information, respective ones of the frequency components in the sets of frequency components located in respective code bands, there being multiple code bands and spacing between adjacent code bands being equal to or less than the spacing between adjacent frequency components in the code bands. Disclosed example apparatus are also to synthesize the frequency components to be used to represent the code, combine the synthesized frequency components with an audio block of an audio signal, and output the audio signal and a video signal associated with the audio signal.

Methods and apparatus to perform audio watermarking and watermark detection and extraction

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; computer readable instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the computer readable instructions to: generate a plurality of errors by comparing (a) a plurality of watermarks adjusted by offsets and (b) reference data, the adjusted watermarks corresponding to watermark data with inaccurate timing information for media; identify an offset of the offsets based on the plurality of errors; and adjust timing information of a watermark of the watermarks using the offset to increase an accuracy of the timing information.

Methods and apparatus to monitor digital media

Example methods and apparatus for associating media devices with a demographic composition of a geographic area are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus are to obtain a plurality of Internet Protocol addresses assigned to a media device associated with a panel member. Disclosed example apparatus are also to determine a most used Internet Protocol address from the plurality of Internet Protocol addresses, determine a geographic location corresponding to the most used Internet Protocol address, associate a geographic area with the media device in response to a determination that the geographic location corresponds to a location of an internet service provider, determine a demographic profile associated with the geographic area, and associate the demographic profile with the media device.

Methods and apparatus for associating media devices with a demographic composition of a geographic area

Apparatus, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture related to end-point media watermarking are disclosed. An example device includes a media receiver to receive a media signal, a watermark generator to generate a watermark, a trigger to activate the watermark generator to generate the watermark based on an external input, an encoder to encode the media signal with the watermark to synthesize an encoded media signal, a media output to render the encoded media signal.

End-point media watermarking

Example apparatus disclosed herein are to access first data entries from a first data source based on a first media identifier, the first data entries associated with first streaming media, respective ones of the first data entries including the first media identifier and corresponding timestamps that indicate when the first streaming media was presented or accessed via a group of media devices. Disclosed example apparatus are also to access second data entries from a second data source based on a keyword or phrase, the second data entries associated with news information or weather information. Disclosed example apparatus are further to align, based on the timestamps, the second data entries with values of a time varying audience of the first streaming media determined based on the first data entries to determine ratings data that correlates changes in the time varying audience with the news information or the weather information.

Fusing online media monitoring data with secondary online data feeds to generate ratings data for online media exposure

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes first means for performing a first mapping of a first media identifier and timestamp to a second media identifier in a look-up table (LUT), the first media identifier and timestamp based on media obtained from a server, the first media identifier to identify the media, means for determining a third media identifier and a second timestamp based on media monitoring information (MMI) obtained from the server, the MMI obtained from the server in response to an access of the media identified by the third media identifier by a media device, second means for performing a second mapping of the third media identifier and the second timestamp to the first media identifier and timestamp in the LUT, and means for crediting access of the media to the media device based on the second mapping.

Methods and apparatus to monitor media

An example apparatus to monitor media that is presented via a mobile device includes: an application monitor to determine when media presentation software is being executed by the mobile device; and a metering information collector to collect at least one of a signature or a code of the media presented by the media presentation software based on the media presentation software being executed by the mobile device.

Methods and systems to meter media content presented on a wireless communication device

Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes for measurement of exposure to streaming media includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: access metadata identifying media presented to a user, and cookie data, the metadata and the cookie data provided by a client device; determine whether the cookie data identifies the user to a database proprietor; in response to a determination that the cookie data does not identify the user to the database proprietor, send a redirect message instructing the client device to retransmit the metadata to a next-hop location; and in response to a determination that the cookie data does identify the user to the database proprietor, provide the metadata and a user identifier to a central facility.

Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media

Example apparatus disclosed herein are to send a request to a media provider that is to cause the media provider to initiate transmission of a transport stream that is to provide streaming media to a media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus are also to extract metering metadata from a data file to be received by the media presentation device after the transmission of the transport stream is initiated by the media provider but before receipt by the media presentation device of the transport stream that is to provide the streaming media to the media presentation device, the data file associated with the transport stream. Disclosed example apparatus are further to report the metering metadata to a server in response to a detected event, and access an identification of secondary media responsive to the report of the metering metadata, the secondary media to be presented by the media presentation device.

Monitoring streaming media content

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to correlate a demographic segment with a fixed device are disclosed. An example method includes accessing a record indicating a public Internet Protocol (IP) address used by a fixed device. A monitoring data record received from a mobile device is accessed. A demographic segment of a user of the mobile device is determined. The mobile device is associated with the fixed device when an IP address of the mobile device from the monitoring data record matches the public IP address used by the fixed device. The demographic segment of the user of the mobile device is associated with the fixed device based on the association of the fixed device and the mobile device.

Methods and apparatus to correlate a demographic segment with a fixed device

Example apparatus disclosed herein are to obtain a first hash key, a second hash key and a third hash key representative of first reference media in response to a first query of a first table, the second hash key associated with a second time preceding a first time associated with the first hash key, the third hash key associated with a third time following the first time associated with the first hash key. Disclosed example apparatus are also to prequalify the first hash key as a candidate for subsequent signature processing associated with a first site signature in response to a determination that the second hash key corresponds to a second site signature preceding the first site signature in time and that the third hash key corresponds to a third site signature following the first site signature in time.

Signature retrieval and matching for media monitoring

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