In a series of September and October posts (the most recent one right here), Ad Age has been taking a broad view of the "social buzz" surrounding the fall TV season's new shows. We worked with the Keller Fay Group, a market-research firm that specializes in tracking "real world" conversations -- not just what you see on Twitter and Facebook -- to generate the chart you see here. As promised, we're wrapping up by checking the correlation between word-of-mouth buzz and ratings.The WOM data is based on interviews with a cross-section of 4,343 Americans ages 13-69 who were interviewed (from Sept. 23-Oct. 13, divided across the three weekly studies we published in preceding weeks) about 29 new high-profile TV shows that premiered in September or October. The ratings column draws from Nielsen's Live+7 data for the same period as the word of mouth survey. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Specs Who LeVar Burton Age 57 Claim to fame Emmy-winning actor (Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation); host and producer of Reading Rainbow; author of the children’s book The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm (available Oct. 7) Base Los Angeles Twitter @levarburton What’s the first information you... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist Lauraine Snelling has authored 80 books since she began her writing career in 1982, has more than two million books in print, and has just published the first in her fifth historical series set among Norwegian immigrants to North Dakota, where her mother was born and raised: “Strong... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welcome back, my friends, to the superhero show that never ends ... although, come the fall, it does tend to shut up shop just a little and head towards the small screen because it's cold outside and, well, you know how it is. Nonetheless, this week has brought more than just Saturday Night... Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2014-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling cookbook author Yotam Ottolenghi talked to PW about his new cookbook, moving beyond the expected, working with "exotic" ingredients, and the one question he can't be pinned down on. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 33 ⅓ book series features short volumes about music that allow writers to go long on a wide variety of albums. As the series celebrates its 10th year and 100th volume, Slate caught up with energetic and enigmatic musician Andrew W.K. and Phillip Crandall—the author who profiled him and his... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association met at the Hotel Murano September 26-28 in Tacoma, Wash., for the annual trade show. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“Terrific” is a word that came up frequently when booksellers commented on the NAIBA conference held last weekend (Sept. 19-21) at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Va. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Specs Who LL Cool J Age 46 Claim to fame Grammy Award- winning rapper and star of NCIS: Los Angeles (Season 6 premieres Monday, Sept. 29 on CBS) Base New York What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I look at all the trending topics everywhere, but I also like to maybe read... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Specs Who LL Cool J Age 46 Claim to fame Grammy Award- winning rapper and star of NCIS: Los Angeles (Season 6 premieres Monday, Sept. 29 on CBS) Base New York What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I look at all the trending topics everywhere, but I also like to maybe read... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Father and son John and Sam Eldredge talked about everything in weekly conversations after Sam graduated from college. These talks with his father eased Sam's transition to manhood, and now they are captured in a book for the benefit of other young men. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“I was Dick Donner’s assistant for four years, where I just constantly asked him about Superman,” confessed Geoff Johns, chief creative officer of DC Comics. “And The Goonies. He told me once that if he’d done another Superman movie, he would have made it about Brainiac, and I was just like,... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc.'s transformation from Time Warner division to stand-alone publicly traded company has taken a new turn with a breakdown in talks between the publisher and the Newspaper Guild, which... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2014-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newspaper Guild negotiators on Friday rejected the latest offer from Time Inc., prompting the nation’s No. 1 magazine publisher to declare an impasse in its labor negotiations. The biggest stumbling block appears to be the publisher&r ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book sales fell 1.6% in May, to $1.09 billion, compared to the same month last year. However, sales rose 2.3%, to $4.29 billion, for the first five months of the year, as compared to same period in 2013, according to the AAP’s monthly StatShot program. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Local TV and radio broadcasters in Amarillo, Texas, consider yourselves on notice: the Amarillo Globe-News smells blood in the water and is coming after your business. That’s because Les Simpson, publisher of the Morris Communications-own ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In her new cookbook, 'Bitter,' Jennifer McLagan looks at the complexity and balance that bitter flavors can bring to a dish, as well as our how experience of bitterness changes as we age. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2014 Man Booker shortlist shows that “contemporary fiction is of the moment”,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Samuel Fromartz ('In Search of the Perfect Loaf') explains what makes a great baguette, why he’s hot on German bread, and why working in a boulangerie is a total workout. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In ‘The Bible’s Cutting Room Floor’, Joel Hoffman makes accessible the books left out of the Bible as we know it today, showing how they can enlighten reading of the Bible and be the source of surprising insight into modern lives. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In ‘The Bible’s Cutting Room Floor,’ Joel Hoffman makes accessible the books left out of the Bible as we know it today, showing how they can enlighten reading of the Bible and be the source of surprising insight into modern lives. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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