Subscriber Privacy and Data Aggregation? Part II

[epgStream]

From: IceTV Forum [mailto:forums@icetv.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 11:33 AM
Subject: New announcement: Recommendations are now available

Originally Posted by forums@icetv.com.au

As part of our ongoing commitment to bringing new & exciting features to IceTV users in order to get the most out of your TV viewing experience, we are pleased to announce... IceTV Recommendations.

Now not only can you see what are the most popular shows on TV, you can also get a list of shows recommended to you based on your's and other's TV viewing habits. A list of IceTV Recommendations can now be found under the "Recommended" tab of the I Watch This website (http://iwatchthis.com.au/recommended) and will also soon be made available in the new-look IceTV Widget, once you have visited that page the recommendations will also show up under your "My Upcoming Shows" page (http://iwatchthis.com.au/myupcomingshows) allowing easy scheduling.

Please note if you do not use IceTV Remote or have never setup favorites under IceTV Remote or I Watch This you will not get any recommendations.

As this is a new system we are looking for any feedback that you have regarding how well the recommendations work for you. Please leave any feedback at http://www.icetv.com.au/iceforum/index.php?topic=991.0.

To unsubscribe from these announcements, login to the forum and uncheck "Receive forum announcements and important notifications by email." in your profile.

You can view the full announcement by following this link:

http://www.icetv.com.au/iceforum/index.php?topic=992.0

Regards,
The IceTV Forum Team.

This information can be the stepping stone to a tradable commodity. Make sure some sort of compensation (no matter how small) is coming your way. This type of information, in it's current state, is similar to a subset of Roy Morgan Research data sold.

Extension of this thread: http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/comm...gregation.html

[Circuit]

Originally Posted by epgStream

This information can be the stepping stole to a tradable commodity. Make sure some sort of compensation (no matter how small) is coming your way. https://store.roymorgan.com/home.php?cat=448

I like the Roy Morgan site, interesting data available to purchase.

Are you in this business Epgstream?

[epgStream]

Not in the business, but you are right they seem to have quite a bit of information available.

There is a system where they give a household a special book to record their TV watching habits for a period of time. For the life of me I can't remember what that's called and who runs that research ...

[epgStream]

Ah, looks like guys I am thinking of are ozTAM. These guys offer a "Fly-Buys" style or similar awards program where the more information you give them, the more points you get which can then be traded for goods, services or supplies.

I love the directness of this quote on their website: "OzTAM television ratings information is the currency by which television is bought, sold and evaluated."

[TheRob]

Originally Posted by epgStream

This information can be the stepping stole to a tradable commodity.

Nice Freudian slip, there.

[epgStream]

Ba ha ha ha ... Must be! The 'N' and 'L' keys aren't even next to each other!

I better go back and edit that post and change it to 'stone' ...