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  • Metrics 101: Viewability

    As part of our larger efforts to help build an Attention Economy—in which success is measured not by clicks and pageviews but by time and audience attention earned—we’ve publicly released…

  • 80% of Publishers Interested in Transacting on Time: Digital Content Next Report

    Earlier today Digital Content Next, an organization representing over 50 premium publishers, released a study and special report outlining how digital publishers currently view and use time-based metrics and what…

  • Opening Up Our Measurement Process

    If you’re reading this post, you’ve likely already read our recent announcement about gaining accreditation from the Media Ratings Council for measuring a number of metrics, including viewability and active…

  • Chartbeat University: Distributions

    A few months ago, I wrote about coin-flipping experiments, Bayesian updating, and spurious certainty. Much of the discussion in that post centered on using probability densities to reason about data,…

  • Tony Haile’s Data State of the Union

    A few weeks ago everyone’s favorite Brit (who just happens to be our CEO) Tony Haile gave a talk at the annual Online News Association conference in Chicago. During his…

  • Advertising Week Roundup

    We heard about it on panels. We read about it online. We saw lots of folks talking about it on Twitter. What’s it, you ask? Time. Or more specifically, attention.…