Nielsen Financial News

Cable television is filled with ghosts

There has been a huge divergence in India among observers on the state of consumption in general and the health of rural demand in particular. Not surprisingly, there is also a squabble over the appropriate letter of the alphabet to denote the shape of consumption demand. There has also been a discernible cleft between rural and urban areas, as also between goods and services, when it comes to the rates and patterns of private consumption demand growth.

FMCG) industry after the slowdown became more pronounced in the December quarter. Overall volumes, which indicate number of products consumers bought, expanded 5.2% in the December quarter, lower than 6.9% in the September quarter. Sales volumes in rural markets climbed 4.8%, and in cities by 5.6%, from a year earlier, data from Kantar showed. Kantar monitors branded and unorganised products, including unpackaged voluminous commodities. Nielsen, on the other hand, tracks primarily branded retail sales. “We are likely to see another drop in the next quarter, and the current trend of slowdown is expected to stay deep into 2024," said K Ramakrishnan, managing director, South Asia, Worldpanel division, Kantar. «The mild slowdown we saw in the September quarter became even more pronounced in the December quarter.”

Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl has helped it become the most-watched broadcast in the history of US television since the time of the 1969 moon landing as reported by Sky news. Approximately 123.4 million people have watched the Kansas City Chiefs beating the San Francisco 49ers on streaming platforms and TV as per the Nielsen ratings which were released by CBS.

Nobody are eagerly anticipating the sequel, Nobody 2. Directed by Ilya Naishuller and starring Bob Odenkirk, the original film received praise for its gripping storyline and intense action sequences.

Cellebrite DI, Ltd

Stranger Things is all set to return to Netflix for its finale season, but likely won’t be until 2025 at the earliest. Hit by Hollywood strike, the production is finally expected to start in January, 2024. Since its introduction in July 2016, Stranger Things has been and continues to be one of Netflix’s flagship shows. Each season has gone from strength to strength, increasing in popularity with every new outing.

NEW DELHI : Advertising volumes on television decreased 4% in the September quarter from a year earlier, suggesting a slight slowdown even as a few new trends emerged with the auto, finance and e-commerce sectors gaining ground. The period between July and September saw significant shifts in categories, sectors, advertisers, and growth areas in television advertising, per data shared by TAM Media Research. Advertisers from the food and beverage sector maintained top position with 21% of the ad volumes, unchanged from a year earlier, while the personal care and hygiene category gained 2 percentage points over the same quarter last year, accounting for 18% of all ad volumes.

Ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson has announced he is starting his own streaming network

Hindustan Unilever share price has declined 7% in last one year and was down almost 1% in intraday trades on Monday. Hindustan Unilever remains amongst few underperformers compared to gains seen by the benchmark indices. The Nifty-50 index during the period is up more than 13% and S&P BSE Sensex is up 12.55% The volume growth remains a key concern for the companies in the consumer discretionary space and Hindustan Unilever has seen the impact.

₹2,720 to ₹2,563 per share. HUL stock plunged over 1.5% to ₹2,500 in early morning trade on December 7, against previous close at ₹2,567 per share. "Our channel checks and industry interactions indicate that October demand trends remained similar to Q2 as festive growth pick-up did not materialise as expected," Jefferies’ analysts wrote in a note.

how to plan it. This is present bias, a behavioural tendency we all humans have and also known as the inclination to excessively fixate on the ‘here and now,’ and don’t think about what will happen in the long term. Two German researchers, Alejandro Moreno-Okuno and Natividad Aguilera Navarrete described ‘psychological distance’ as a central concept explaining present bias, which means how near or far things feel in our minds.

It is not a stretch to say that the Black Friday game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets is Amazon’s Super Bowl

Suits' is gearing up for a reunion at the ATX TV Festival, scheduled to take place from May 30 to June 2 in Austin, Texas, marking five years since the show's series finale. Confirmed panelists include Patrick J. Adams, Sarah Rafferty, and Dulé Hill, alongside the show’s creator and showrunner Aaron Korsh.

The Golden Globes have found a new broadcast home at CBS after the troubled awards show lost its longtime home at NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was dissolved after years of scandal

By Balazs Koranyi

The OTT platform will drop first three of the eight episodes of December 15. Subsequently, fresh episodes will then be released every Friday through January 19. The Season 2 is based on the 11th book in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novel series titled “Bad Luck and Trouble”. “‘Reacher’ Season Two begins when veteran military police investigator Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) receives a coded message that the members of his former U.S.

Beyond Inc, formerly known as Overstock.com, on Monday said its chief excecutive, Jonathan Johnson, has stepped down amid activist investor pressure. Hedge fund JAT Capital, which owns a 9.6% stake in Beyond Inc, last week urged the board to replace CEO Johnson, arguing that he is to blame for the company's poor financial performance.

Suits" continues to maintain its position at the top. According to Nielsen's latest data for the week of September 25 to October 1st, the legal drama has stayed put firmly at the top, despite a gradual decline in viewership.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd boss K. Krithivasan is battling a new problem that is not the company’s making: Making up for a nearly $450 million loss in annual business. Earlier this week, Deutsche Bank announced that it will shut almost half of the 550 branches of Postbank over the next two years as Germany’s biggest bank sees more customers prefer online banking than walking into a branch.

A federal lawsuit alleges the investment arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints misused hundreds of thousands of dollars donated by three men by investing the money instead of using it for charitable purposes as they claim was promised