Word: nielsens
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...last year—just months after Faust assumed the Harvard presidency—the book garnered largely positive reviews and impressive sales for a historical work. In its first five months in print, Faust’s book sold close to 40,000 copies according to data from Nielsen BookScan. Her most high-profile book before this year—Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War—generated some controversy among Civil War historians when it was published in 1997, but has sold under 10,000 copies since it was first...
...This increased the flexibility in the market.” After a reorganization of the market under a centralized authority, the researchers found that, controlling for other parameters such as seasonal effects and varying yearly interest in sports, the switch was a success, as measured by higher Nielsen viewer ratings and increased revenue for market participants. Despite focusing on the college football market, the researchers noted that their work had implications for a number of different markets. In 2004 and 2006, Roth helped design the high school matching system in for students in New York and the matching system...
Meetic may be flighty in matters of the heart, but it's serious when it comes to business. Nielsen Media Research rated it the U.K.'s biggest Web advertiser in the first four months of 2008. Elsewhere, Meetic was similarly aggressive, buying a big dating site in Germany last year, as well as sites in the Netherlands, China and Brazil...
Also, hanging on some FLDS walls is the photograph of Wendell Nielsen, a key Jeffs' ally, an FLDS money man and "a trusted confidante who did a lot more than any of us know," Brower says. Nielsen founded a Las Vegas high-tech machine shop company, NewEra Manufacturing (formerly Western Precision) that counted among its clients the U.S. Department of Defense. Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger has called for an investigation of a $1.2 million aircraft parts contract that Nielson's company signed with the federal government. Despite the image presented by quaintly dressed mothers and bucolic family life, the FLDS...
...author gives an awkward label to this new relationship between consumers and producers: consumer-generated media (CGM). Luckily, he says, this bond can be monitored, measured and repaired: "Whether you hire a major firm like Nielsen Online, Cymfony/TNS, Umbria or BuzzLogic, or use any of the various free tools available online, you should be religiously mining the Web to understand what CGM is saying about your brand...