Eli5: how were the Nielsen stats reported originally and how have they made the 21st century transition?

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How were they reported during the 60s to 90s, and how honest were they? My uneducated opinion is that they were transitioned to all digital tracking now, but with multiple streaming services and lack of transparency, are they even relevant in the 21st century?

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They take a profile of every member of your house. They connect monitoring devices to all of your televisions. Whenever someone watches a show, they put their ID into the device so it registers them as watching the channel the TV is turned to.

For computers, they now have apps that can monitor whether you’re going to a streaming site or not.

But you’re right that they can’t catch everything. But it is still works well for live watching cable/satellite programming.

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