Internet Audience Measurement: A Practitioner's View

The objective of this paper is to provide some background to those interested in the Internet audience measurement industry, layout the alternative methods employed, and provide greater detail behind the methodology used by the leading Internet audience measurement service.
  

Internet Audience Measurement: A Practitioner's View

Steve Coffey MEDIA METRIX

WHY THE INTERNET NEEDS MEASUREMENT

In 1994 the Internet was a largely unknown technology to most consumers, although the buzz was beginning in advertising circles. The closest experience most consumers had was the commercial online services, CompuServe, Prodigy, and the rapidly growing America Online. A smattering of private bulletin board systems were also available to consumers, but few provided consumer-ready access to the Internet. For that matter, even Internet addressable email was only just becoming available on these systems, and even that was the latter part...

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