Virgin Media measure UK's hottest shows
 

http://www.cable.co.uk/news/virgin-m...ows-801597336/

"Virgin Media has created a new algorithm that measures live, catch-up, on-demand and recorded TV viewing along with chatter on social networks to identify the UK's most-discussed television shows.

Dubbed The Hotlist, the ranking takes into account three methods of interaction - viewing a programme, engaging with it socially and talking about it enthusiastically after it's been on."

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I was just going to open a thread on this news item so here's another link to the Hotlist.

http://www.televisual.com/news-detai..._nid-2899.html

I hope that the programmers don't use this list to work out future schedules as I could become very disgruntled very quickly at the lack of quality viewing choices.

Re: Virgin Media measure UK's hottest shows
 

Spot on Jo as from that list there's only two or three l would watch.

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Where's Corrie?

Re: Virgin Media measure UK's hottest shows
 

What more rubbish.:td:

Re: Virgin Media measure UK's hottest shows
 

Australian and some US media companies look at how many people download torrents of a show to easily see what is and isn't popular. The percentages seem to be pretty similar across many sites.

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Interesting point - I wonder why they do that?

As most of their shows are funded by advertising revenue, which they won't get if it's torrented, I wonder what the benefit to them is?

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It may have been the actual channels looking at what shows to try and show rather than the actual media companies. I'll add a link if I find one of the articles about it again.