It’s silly season and news is drying up – so it’s a good job Research the Media’s Richard Marks is on hand to share his top ten ways to derive whatever meaning you like from figures that should really be telling a different story.

After both the BBC and ESPN put their 3D development on ice – citing a lack of consumer appetite for the technology – Richard Marks, director of Research the Media, asks how do we research what people will actually do as opposed to what they think they want?

We are headed towards a digital future with just three media – video, text and audio – delivered across screens of varying sizes, yet ‘TV’ and ‘radio’ still have very strong connotations. So how should we change our definitions in a connected world? Richard Marks of Research the Media investigates…

Broadchurch was a huge hit for ITV, says Richard Marks of Research the Media – but will it be able to replicate that success? Whatever happens, at least we’ve learned that rather than ‘the Internet’ proving to be a threat to TV, in many ways it is just what it has been waiting for: digital technology propagating a buzz around a show, and then giving people the means to join the party – a rolling stone gathering digital moss.

Twitter is now emerging as the primary curator of – and gateway into – the internet, and will potentially supplant Facebook argues Richard Marks, Director of Research The Media.

Richard Marks of Research the Media has a confession to make: after years of extolling the benefits of Big Data in audience measurement he must now admit that he was wrong to use those two little words. Here is his apology – as well as a call to action.

Richard Marks, chief executive of Kantar Media Audiences, looks at the increasing importance of TV data and how it is becoming the “new oil” for the industry.