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TV networks are purposely misspelling show names to avoid bad Nielsen ratings
- chrisgd 9y agoMost Nielsen data ties together with a program code, they often don't miss assigning the same program code to the different spellings. Local data arrives with BBTheory, BigBTheory, BBTheory087, etc. All of them will have the same program code. It is often up to the person pulling the raw data how to calculate the program averages. I am not sure who the one entity is in this case that is not including them in the average.
- mikestew 9y agoThis is one of those things that strike me as so pathetic that I have a hard time believing it. Not that The Verge has the highest journalistic standards, but they’re non-click-baity enough that I’ll take them mostly at their word. And yet I was still reading the article to find out what the catch was. Nope, no catch; it’s just as sad as it sounds, with networks thinking Nielsen would never catch on to their clever ruse. Hmm, what happens when Google catches someone trying to game the system...
- SamUK96 9y ago...People will find a new way to game Google. I mean look at how Google blacklisted a bunch of tor exit nodes over the last 1-2 years, making google through tor all but impossible. Then in the past few months. Some people have started doing auto proxy rotation out of their exit boxes to fool Google.