Audience Economics

Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace

Philip M. Napoli

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Columbia University Press
25 September 2003

Media studies; Economics; Radio & television industry; Advertising industry; Internet guides & online services

Focusing on the electronic media-television, radio, and the Internet-Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers. Philip M. Napoli presents original research in order to answer several key questions:

⁊ How are audiences manufactured, valued, and sold?

⁊ How do advertisers and media firms predict the behavior of audiences?

⁊ How has the process of measuring audiences evolved over time?

⁊ How and why do advertisers assign different values to segments of the media audience?

⁊ How does audience economics shape media content?

Examining the relationship between the four principal actors in the audience marketplace-advertisers, media firms, consumers, and audience measurement firms-Napoli explains the ways in which they interact with and mutually depend on each other. He also analyzes recent developments, such as the introduction of local people meters by Nielsen Media Research and the establishment and evolution of audience measurement systems for the Internet. A valuable resource for academics, students, policymakers, and media professionals, Audience Economics keeps pace with the rapid changes in media and audience-measurement technologies in order to provide a thorough understanding of the unique dynamics of the audience marketplace today.

By: Philip M. Napoli
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 468g
ISBN: 9780231126526
ISBN 10: 0231126522
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 25 September 2003
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Philip M. Napoli is an assistant professor of communications and media management in the graduate school of business at Fordham University. He is the author of Foundations of Communications Policy: Principles and Process in the Regulation of Electronic Media.

Reviews for Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace

The book sheds new lights on the operation and likely future of media in the twenty-first century. * Educational Book Review * Crisply written and aimed at nonspecialists... * Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics *