See also: Spider
CIMM DEFINITION: A generic term for programs that trawl through the internet to collect data and other information from websites.
July 25, 2012
See also: Spider
CIMM DEFINITION: A generic term for programs that trawl through the internet to collect data and other information from websites.
“The challenge that we face as an industry is to develop solutions which provide advertisers a holistic view of their advertising, across platforms and media organizations. It is essential that they can optimize reach and manage frequency against target audiences, and ultimately demonstrate return on ad spend. CIMM was founded to help develop innovative solutions to these industry measurement challenges and continues be a leading voice and a facilitator of collaboration, a crucial role, es… Read more
CIMM DEFINITION: A term used to represent the average of a live rating for a (national) commercial minute and up to three days of DVR playback viewing.
2: Average Commercial Minute (ACM) rating that includes time-shifted viewing within 3 days (75 hours) of the live program telecast. (Source: Nielsen)
3: The average commercial second rating including live tuning to a program plus 75 hours of DVR playback. (Source: TRA)
CIMM DEFINITION: Originally conceived as a system designed to provide a centralized platform for the planning, execution, billing, and measurement reporting of advanced advertising services. A core tenant of a CAAS is to implement standard interfaces to communicate advertising campaign delivery instructions as well as common metrics gathering and reporting interfaces across different operating entities. Canoe Ventures has implemented a CAAS, named the ‘Canoe Advanced Advertising System / C… Read more
See also: Set-Top Box, Digital Television Adaptor
CIMM DEFINITION: An early term for a type of Set-Top Box. It is an electronic device attached to the television set that converts the feed into an analog signal that is then viewable on non-digital sets. Currently a Cable Converter box also unscrambles digital signals.
2: Equipment in the homes of cable subscribers used to convert cable signals to normal TV channels. “Addressable” cable converters also allow cable operators to activate, disconnec… Read more
CIMM DEFINITION: A device that permits high speed connectivity to the Internet over a cable television system. (Source: IAB)
See also: Cable Television, Broadcast Network, Broadcast
CIMM DEFINITION: The system network for the distribution of the television signal and now digital data and telephony services by cable (co-axial, twisted pair or fiber optic). (Source: itvt.com/glossary)
CIMM DEFINITION: Term which refers to the central equipment and broadcasting headquarters of a cable operator. All initial broadcasts from the content providers are sent to the cable plant, aggregated, re-encoded, and broadcast to its Set-Top Box network. (Source: itvt.com/glossary)
CIMM DEFINITION: A television set which includes an analog tuner which can plug directly into a video cable without an intervening Set-Top Box. Since there is no return path to the central office, channel changes made on a cable ready set are not visible to existing server log collection systems. (Source: Nielsen)
See also; Cable Network, Broadcast Network, Broadcast
CIMM DEFINITION: A television content provider that does not have affiliated local stations or owns and operates local television stations but who distributes video, internet and/or telephone signals to subscribers via a cable, through a phone line or via satellite.
2: A non-broadcast facility which distributes signals of one or more television stations and non-broadcast services to subscribers via cable. (Source: Nielsen)
See also: Zone
CIMM DEFINITION: Same definition as Zone but with only cable homes.
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