Sounds like it could impact on Who's rating in a BIG way.

Can anyone elaborate and, more over, will this be rolled out retrospectively?

I read somewhere that Who has the biggest online viewership percentage of any TV show, or something.

Unless I've misunderstood the article it's a shame that all of these new ways of monitoring viewers will still only apply to the 5,100 sample rather than the whole country. I guess there are all sorts of privacy laws to consider though. I see it as no different to accepting cookies on web sites, but I doubt that everyone will see it that way.

they could do it as an 'opt in' get people to create accounts on iplayer, itv player, sky go etc then you tick a box saying opt in to BARB, and a legal jargon bit to click accept, wouldn't be too hard to set up i guess

There's like a 25% difference between live and timeshift when Doctor Who is compared to other shows.

ETA: On the previous page, in fact..

On he Barb panel they have all the demographic information of the people on the panel - if they did this for everyone they wouldn't be able to do that and as a result wouldn't be able to combine the two data sources.

I'll believe BARB over Live+7 as it'll be independent and official. Also I hope they'll do weekly stats as monthly iPlayer stats as monthly iPlayer stats show ratings for a month which artificially inflate Doctor Who's weekly BARB ratings.

With this new development, it looks like Series 8 could be the highest official ratings average since the show returned, unless they miscast the 12th Doctor.

However, the 50th is probably going to be a major recipient of the benefits of this.

Odd, as Live+7 data is fully-live data, not extrapolated from a sample size.

True but it's not officially recognised by all broadcasters unlike BARB figures.

One of the funniest things I've heard about the sampling is from someone filming a documentary in the Shetlands in a crofter's cottage and seeing one of the BARB boxes. When asked how it worked the crofter said no idea but let's go next door - my neighbour's got one too!

Not the most representative sample!

Extrapolating from a sample is often wonderfully precise. BARB are well respected for their skill at this. It will be interesting to see how it compares with Live+7. And, of course, it will cover other broadcasters.

I am not cynical about Live+7 though. It is probably a well designed and honest system. The BBC use it for their own purposes. They would not be doing themselves any favours by rigging it just so they can brag about beating X Factor or whatever. In any case, newspapers use BARB as the basis of their numerous "we hate the BBC" hatchet jobs. But there's nothing like independence to avoid an accidental bias in the design.

Last night's reveal of the new Doctor averaged 6.27m (30.2%), peaking with 6.89m (32.5%) as the new Doctor was revealed.

Shows there is a buzz about the show/the new Doctor!

Viewing of the final episode of Doctor Who on BBC1 rose from 7.45m to 7.89m, an increase of 5.8%

New insight into time shift viewing

http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/281

So is this effectively the BRAB adding IPlayer stats into the final viewing figure?

No, its just the regular BARB final figures extended to four weeks after broadcast as opposed to one week. The addition of Iplayer and other web-catch up services is something entirely seperate.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Saw this:

Not sure if anyone else is interested, but I was just looking up the ratings for the classic series that have been shown on Watch and thought I'd share them with you all.

(note: these are all including +1)
The Aztecs: 140,000
Tomb of the Cybermen: 159,000
Spearhead from Space: 141,000

(I don't know when the Tom Baker episode was on, if it indeed has been on)

To put it into perspective, they are similar figures to the Nu-Who repeats that go out on Watch at a similar time

Hello Dr Who Ratings Thread (Merged) - I didn't expect to see you again until 24th November!

Thanks Yog!

I did wonder about these. Do you have ratings for the other programmes such as Doctor Who revisited?

I did have a quick look, but will get the proper figures tomorrow.
They did tend to do more than the actual Classic episodes.

Thanks Yog.

Looked on BARB and the classic Who weekends are doing well for them. The Doctor Revisiteds are doing well.

Children in Need averaged 9.7m, so it's possible that the Doctor Who clip got high 8m low 9m.

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