App Tester
Media help partners understand the changing advertising landscape. Specialising in audience measurement, consumer targeting and in-depth intelligence into paid, owned and earned media, their global coverage and local expertise enable better understanding of media audiences and their relationships with brands.
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Job Details
As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Medias data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making.
Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the worlds fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.
Our versatility, scale, technology, and expertise enable our 5000 people across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, North America, and Africa to understand audiences and help the worlds leading organisations succeed and grow.
Job Title: App TesterLocation: London, Grays Inn Road
Salary: Competitive
Full time/Permanent/Hybrid
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Role Description
Barb is the official provider of television audience viewing figures across all channels available to watch in the UK, who are jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel4, Channel5, BSkyB, and the IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) and is a not-for-profit company.This measurement task is contracted out by Barb to research companies who perform this function for them. Kantar Media is the research agency that Barb appointed to perform this television audience measurement research in the UK.
This involves installing meters in panel member homes, collecting, and processing the data and issuing official viewing figures to the industry. KantarMedia is a global leader in audience measurement and provides audience measurement in 50 markets around the world.
When it was originally created, the Barb contract covered only television viewed through a television set. Nowadays, however, audiences can watch through many different devices PCs, laptops, tablets.
As a result, the Barb service is going through a period of change, adapting to include measurement on all devices. Part of this involves extending the task for panellists measuring not only their televisions but also their PCs, laptops, and tablets.In addition, the Barb BVOD is a project for Barb that was introduced to collect census level data on viewing to broadcaster players (e.g. BBC iPlayer). This uses tags in broadcaster players to collect all viewing data in the UK (not just for the panellists).
KantarMedia is also running this contract.
We are looking to appoint a dedicated and service-oriented data analyst to work on the BVOD project. This person will perform a key data quality and reporting function for this new service. The appointed individual will receive training for proprietary tools and analysis techniques from our in-house experts before taking responsibility for all data queries across the service set-up and maintenance phases.The individual will leverage their data mining expertise to perform key data analysis and create reports.
This role will report into a Senior Data Analyst and will work closely with the online audience measurement team and other project colleagues to provide data analysis and evaluations.
Role Responsibilities:
Specific responsibilities for this role are: Test broadcaster player apps and record and maintain test results.
Liaise with internal and broadcaster team for issues arising from testing.Run trend analysis of census level broadcaster player data.
Perform QC checks on census level data.
Required:
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate they have/are: Highly numerate with an analytical approach, who enjoys working with data.
Interested in media (specifically television)Confident talking about data with the ability to present complex information in an understandable and compelling manner to non-technical people, i.e. describing the impact of complex system processes on reporting data.
Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration skills
Great attention to detail
First-hand experience of online media or television audience measurement a distinct advantage
Specific Skills
Understanding of database management and programming background is an advantage.SQL programming language skills is an advantage
Strong proficiency with MS Office packages
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