Written by Liz Gannes
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 12:00 AM PT

 

Two and a Half Men Is Tops Online

If you would have monitored more than 17,000 social media and social networking sites in the last week of September, looking at 3.5 million conversations per day and over 120 million unique users, you might have found that CBS’ Two and a Half Men took the crown for the most socially-interacted-with-on-the-web TV show.

That is, if you used similar methodology to research firm Networked Insights, which is launching a new sort of competitor to Nielsen ratings, which it calls “Measuring the Social.” The specifics of that methodology are a bit vague, but here are some details:

Instead of just measuring viewership, like the Nielsen ratings, the following data includes all the various types of interactions available to online audiences, including reading, rating, sharing, linking and inviting. Networked Insights can also determine the value and influence of each interaction – for example, Tiger Woods sharing a golf video carries far more weight than an everyday golf enthusiast taking the same action.

So thanks to Charlie Sheen, or is it Chuck Lorre, Two and a Half Men attracted more than twice as many “interactions” as its nearest competitor. Networked Insights specifically attributed that success to the following around favorite quotes from the show. Meanwhile, Two and a Half Men was fifth on Nielsen’s list for the week. And no, Gossip Girl was not on either list.

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  1. “Measuring the Social?”

    Because “Welcome to the Social” worked so well for the Zune.

    Chris Albrecht on October 28th, 2008 at 6:22 am - Permalink

  2. What’s their methodology? Without knowing what they’re measuring and how, it seems a little fishy.

    SR on October 28th, 2008 at 10:41 am - Permalink

  3. Maybe “two and a half men” is so popular online because they push the line of “decency”:
    http://www.parentstv.org/PTC/news/release/2008/1022.asp

    “The Parents Television Council™ is filing an indecency complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and urging its members and concerned citizens to do the same after a three minute long strip club scene featuring a lap dance aired on CBS’s “Two and a Half Men.””

    :-)

    Rakesh Agrawal on October 28th, 2008 at 12:58 pm - Permalink

  4. i dont buy this one bit… good theory, but the when the results produce a list whereby #1 brought in nearly 3x the number of points as #2, but viewership across the board has a fairly low variance, i cant see how anyone would call this a useful new form of measurement.

    john on October 29th, 2008 at 10:40 am - Permalink

  5. [...] Move over Nielsen, there’s a new form of audience measurement in town. This week, Networked Insights released the first Measuring the Social report, focused on network television show ratings that are based on online interactions instead of Nielsen’s traditional (and much-disputed) TV ratings. Erik Abels from Forbes says “I Want My Non-Nielsen TV” and Adam Ostrow from Mashable says “TV Viewership is From Mars, Social Interactions are From Venus.” Other coverage included TV Week, TechCrunch, Wired and NewTeeVee. [...]

    LaunchSquad : Blogs : What’s New on October 31st, 2008 at 8:31 am - Permalink

  6. i dont buy this one bit…i cant see how anyone would call this a useful new form of measurement.

    Taimoor on May 5th, 2009 at 3:44 pm - Permalink

  7. Move over Nielsen

    Taimoor on May 5th, 2009 at 3:45 pm - Permalink

  8. There’s a new form of audience measurement in town. This week.

    Taimoor on May 5th, 2009 at 3:46 pm - Permalink

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