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aMap & OMS join hands for audience research lab at Mica
 

Indiantelevision.com Team

(30 October 2006 10:00 pm)

 

MUMBAI: Audience Measurement and Analytics Ltd. (aMap) - Asia's overnight audience ratings service and Optimum Media Solutions (OMS) - a media independent agency, have set up aMap OMS Audience Research laboratory at the Mica campus in Ahmedabad.

While inaugurating the lab aMap managing director Ravi Arora and Mudra Foundation of Communications Research and Education chairman Madhukar Kamath expressed hope that the facility will be used to further the research agenda at Mica and provide valuable insights for practicing professionals.

The laboratory is equipped with aMap data machines for overnight data on television viewing of urban India, state of the art viewing station where content across nine channels can be monitored. Three organizations from different domains (Media Planning and Buying, Audience Measurement, and Communications Management) have pooled their experience, expertise and resources to do the cutting edge research that would influence the way media is planned, bought, sold, and used. The beneficiaries of this research include advertisers, media planners and buyers, broadcasters, social scientists, academic institutions, and public policy planners.

The Lab operates under the directions of its Advisory Council. It works with experts in social sciences, psychology, anthropology, advocacy and marketing research to bring in different dimensions for exploiting audience research data. The research output of the laboratory will remain to be an intellectual property of all the three organisations, informs an official release.

The lab provides the students, faculty and professionals from the two organizations to undertake path-breaking research in the several key areas that include Understanding the viewing behaviour of Indian Television Audiences in terms of regional differences, differences by pop Strata, ratings based semiotic analysis of Televised content, developing loyalty indices for various genres of programming and propensity of various audience groups towards news programming during catastrophic events. The lab also aims at developing Indian Audience viewership theories.

The research areas will be reviewed continuously to keep them in sync with the changing requirements of the industry. Such research activities will provide the students and faculty to be in touch with the development in the field of media management and prepare them for enriching careers in this highly specialized field.

Also present on this occasion were Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (Mica) director Prof. Atul Tandon, Optimum Media Solutions president Chandradeep Mitra (OMS) and Audience Measurement and Analytics Ltd. director-research and knowledge management Ravi Dixit. Members of the Governing council of Mica also graced the occasion and provided their inputs for the future direction of the research activities at the centre.

 
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