The Online TV Panel is a panel made up of households across the country. These households have been carefully selected to represent their respective regions. Panelists are provided with an electronic meter, called a FocalMeter. This device captures online video viewing from sites listed in our inclusion list, from which ratings are then calculated.

All that is needed to participate is an internet router or modem with an available network connection. If your home network configuration is more complex, it may require more than one FocalMeter. Our Panel Administration Team can help you with your installation.

The monitoring device (the FocalMeter) ONLY tracks web traffic based on a pre-determined inclusion list. The inclusion list is a list of approved websites (domains) where the FocalMeter is allowed to monitor video viewing. Any website not on the inclusion list will not have any data logged by the FocalMeter. It DOES NOT monitor any secure traffic on your network, or any traffic on banking or e-commerce sites. It does not track any passwords or monitor any emails or IM chats.

The FocalMeter excludes web traffic based on a pre-determined inclusion list. The inclusion list is a list of approved websites (domains) where the FocalMeter is allowed to monitor video viewing. The FocalMeter ONLY collects the URLs that are on the inclusion list and the rest are ignored. Even on inclusion list sites, the FocalMeter only monitors a small fraction of content from these sites via “tags”. Tags are specific URLs identifying the pages navigated or the videos played within an inclusion list website. Apart from this, the FocalMeter collects: • Mac Address of the home router and information on the local home network • Model, Name, OS, MAC Address, local IP address of devices seen in the home network.

No. We’ll enclose complete instructions when we send you your equipment. We’ll also enclose a telephone number you can call if you need help.

Using your meter is incredibly easy. All you need to do is connect your FocalMeter to your home Internet connection. Then follow the online registration process to register your FocalMeter with our panel. That’s all that is required.

Connecting the FocalMeter to your network will take less than 10 minutes. After connecting the network cable between your FocalMeter and home router and powering the FocalMeter, there is an online device registration process.

No, in most cases the equipment will not interfere with your Internet service or other devices in any way. In rare cases panelists have experienced intermittent connectivity issues with some networked devices. If you experience any technical issues, please contact your Panel Administration Team.

The panels in each market include all types of homes. Yours was randomly selected as a representative of your community.

We obtain contact information in two ways. The phone numbers, names and address details we use are randomly selected from telephone book listings, cell phone listings included. In addition, we use a computer program to randomly generate new numbers in order to reach unlisted phone numbers.

Your Panel Administrator will contact you by telephone, email or text – whichever works best for you.

While we’d like you to remain on our panel for an extended period of time, you may leave whenever you wish. Please keep the box that your FocalMeter arrived in so that you can ship it back to us. If you wish to leave the panel, please contact your Panel Administration Team.

No. Your compensation for participating in our panel is not related to the amount of time you watch Internet video each week. It doesn’t matter how much or how little you watch.

Yes. If anything changes in your household – e.g., somebody moves in or out, you go on vacation – please contact your Panel Administrator.

If you’re planning to be away from your home, let your Panel Administrator know when you’re leaving and when you’ll be back.

To ensure the integrity of Numeris ratings, it is important that your participation remain confidential. If someone asks about your FocalMeter, simply say you are participating in a special research study. Please do not tell anyone you don’t know, or anyone working in the media industry, that your household participates in Numeris ratings.