Our measurement problem requires some solution, even if our solution needs continual refinement. We need some flexible agreement if our assessments are to communicate other than how we each personally ...

The entire ad industry is obsessed with retail media right now. But the channel’s got a bit of a measurement problem. (Sound familiar?) Retail media networks (RMNs) give brands that don’t have much ...

The community-first model sounds compelling creatively, but scaling it has depended on solving one of the longest-running ...

Quantum mechanics is a probabilistic theory that does not describe individual events. Yet when we perform a single measurement, we find a well-defined outcome. This apparent contradiction, known as ...

Podcasting is undergoing an identity crisis driven by the convergence of audio-only content and video formats popularised by platforms such as Spotify and YouTube, according to a new white paper.

A funny thing happened on the advertising industry’s way to a Big Data solution for measuring media currencies. It just got a lot smaller. How much smaller isn’t entirely clear, but even the biggest ...

This morning on BBC Radio 4, the mathematician Roger Penrose, physicist Basil Hiley, and philosopher Simon Saunders had a lively discussion about the “measurement problem in physics” with broadcaster ...

Facebook has another measurement problem on its hands. The company said in a blog post on Friday it was seeing a difference between the number of likes and shares reported on its Graph API — which is ...

Banks' dominant budgeting approach is to take a number they can't validate, adjust it based on gut feel, and wait until ...