We’re glad to release The Gauge: Mexico for the first time. This new audience measurement report, which was created using methodologies conceptually similar to The Gauge in the U.S., will provide Mexico’s media industry with a monthly analysis of television viewing across key delivery platforms. One important difference between The Gauge: Mexico and The Gauge in the U.S. is that this version is based on streaming capable homes, while the U.S. version includes homes of all types.
The Gauge: Mexico shows the TV usage share each month, broken down into four main viewing categories: broadcast, pay TV, streaming and others. It will help to better understand the TV viewership share in the country as the media landscape changes rapidly, the video content available online increases, and the evolving habits of viewers when it comes to what they watch on a TV screen is shifting.
The data comes from Nielsen’s single-source panel consisting of 200 broadband households from Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. The report is based on daily average audience share data. The data is presented for people 4 years old and above, broken down into broadcast, pay TV (both linear and shifted in time up to 7 days) and viewership from streaming (live streaming viewership of TV stations on OTT platforms is classified as broadcast or pay tv accordingly). The “Others” category includes views of unrecognized content and usage of peripheral devices connected to the TV.
December 2022
Disclaimer: YUMI TV, Streaming Meter Lab Panel Ratings Database – 200 Broadband HH from AMCM, Guadalajara and Monterrey. Screen: TV. Target: People 4+. Universe People 4+:19,683,510. Period: Month: December 2022. Fringe: Total Day – 2:00 to 26:00 hrs. Audience type: Consolidated (Live+TSV 7 days+VOD). To be used as reference only.
Methodology and frequently asked questions
What is included in “Broadcast”?
Live and Time Shifted Viewing (TSV) audience of Open TV Channels broadcast contents that are referenced and reported in a disaggregated manner in the official Nielsen IBOPE TV audience measurement service (TAM) in Mexico, regardless of the used platform for viewing (Linear or recorded signal of the TV channel, streaming platforms, online transmission of the TV signal, etc).
What is included in “Pay TV”?
Live and Time Shifted Viewing (TSV) audience of Pay TV Channels broadcast contents that are referenced and reported in a disaggregated manner in the official Nielsen IBOPE TV audience measurement service (TAM) in Mexico, regardless of the used platform for viewing (Linear or recorded signal of the TV channel, streaming platforms, online transmission of the TV signal, etc).
What is included in “Streaming”?
Audience identified as video consumption streamed through the household’s broadband network regardless of the used platform and that was not identified as part of the Broadcast or Pay TV buckets.
What is included in “Others”?
- Live audience of linear content of TV channels which are not referenced, not disaggregated in the official Nielsen IBOPE TV audience measurement study (TAM) in Mexico and are not identified as video consumption streamed through the household’s broadband network.
- Use of peripheral devices (Game Consoles, Blu-rays, DVDs, etc.) connected to the TV when they are not being used to stream video content through the household’s broadband network.
- Non Audio Activity: Time periods in which no audio is detected on the TV set by the people meter.
