How Nielsen Ratings Work, and Why You Can’t Apply to Join the Company's Panel

Its data underpins more than $70 billion in TV advertising

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If you work in the TV or advertising industry, or even if you’re just a TV fan, you likely talk about Nielsen television ratings on a regular basis. After all, the fate of more than a thousand scripted and unscripted TV shows, as well as the country’s $70 billion-plus TV advertising market, is tied to the measurement company’s ratings data. But what happens between the time a TV program first airs or streams and networks and clients receive those metrics from Nielsen? In the latest video in our series How

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