Automatic Data Capture Technologies

Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technologies make it possible to identify the programs actually watched or listened to through audio signal captured by Audience Meters. 

They rely on audio watermarking and audio fingerprinting technologies to recognise content broadcast across different media environments, including television, radio, streaming, replay services and podcasts.

How can you measure usage of Netflix, YouTube, TF1+, or other video platforms at home? Médiamétrie’s Streaming Meter allows you to track streaming consumption across different screens in the Household.

Discover how it works, the data it collects and the technical challenges involved in independently measuring video viewing behaviours.

Médiamétrie’s TVM3 is an innovative TV Audience Meter Audience Meter A device for measuring the audience of radio or television programmes. Audience meters automatically register whenever a TV or radio is switched on or off, as well as each change of channel, and each time recorded content is played on the decoder, or catch-up / preview services are viewed. They also allow for individual audience measurement via a remote control with push buttons; each member of the household has their own button which they use to state their presence in the room. The audience meter is connected via the telephone network to a computer that collects and processes the data gathered. Find out more designed to accurately measure television audiences at home.

It combines advanced technologies to identify both the content being watched and the individuals present, ensuring reliable and continuous measurement.

RateOnAir v3® is a next-generation portable Audience Meter designed to measure individual audiencs for audiovisual content on the move and across all types of screens.
This wearable device provides continuous, passive, and multi-context measurement through advanced audio recognition technology and a centralized data processing platform.

OPRO transforms the raw data collected by measurement devices into actionable audience records. 

By combining processing rules, reference frameworks, and business-specific enhancements, this technology converts captured signals into qualified data used to generate audience metrics.

Osmium and OCOM collect, monitor and validate data data Digital data Find out more generated by audience measurement audience measurement Quantitative study of the frequency of use of media. Find out more devices.

These platforms transform information captured by audience audience The set of listeners, viewers, or TV viewers in which each individual is equally weighted, regardless of their listening/viewing duration or frequency of contact. Find out more meters intostructured, traceable and actionable data used to produce audience measurement indicators.