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BigChampagne collects a great deal of information about media consumption both online and offline through our partners. We also employ our own patent-pending systems for observing peer-to-peer ("P2P") file sharing and searching.
Data Partners
Our strategic partnership with Mediabase gives BigChampagne's customers information about digital, terrestrial, and satellite radio airplay by format, market and station, as well as music television programming data.
BigChampagne collects additional data about other forms of online media consumption from a growing list of partners. These relationships are described in our press release section as they are announced.
"Traditional" P2P Measurement
P2P file sharing communities are based on the voluntary participation of millions of individual users ("peers") in an open and non-hierarchical ("peer-to-peer") public exchange ("sharing") of files (MP3s, video, games, software, etc.). BigChampagne profiles this activity at the highest levels and in granular close-up. We do not retain or report any identifying information about individual users.
BigChampagne constantly measures activity on P2P networks using proprietary systems (patent-pending) that gather information about file sharing and searches in much the same way that a search engine (Google) collects information about public web sites.
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Let's get technical: BigChampagne employs multiple NOCs (network operations centers), 24/7 monitoring, and 24/7 data processing.
Our monitoring technologies collect online data in real time. We maintain multiple high-speed Internet connections around the clock. We employ dynamic, simultaneous, direct monitoring presences on key network nodes. Through each node, we are connected to tens of thousands of additional locations at any moment. BigChampagne monitors billions of online searches and files.
We're high tech, but we also believe in the human touch. Real, live analysts examine each song on our charts to make sure we accurately identify and classify titles on which we report.
Using an on-the-fly geographic IP lookup, we determine the location of file sharing by country, and in most cases by metropolitan area as well. This lets us analyze information globally, by country, region, state, and/or metropolitan area. |
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ABOUT FILE SHARING
Since the rise and fall of Napster, file sharing has moved into the mainstream. At present, tens of millions of consumers access one or more of these networks each month.
P2P is an amazingly successful "idea virus," a concept but also an architecture for distributed computing. P2P networks are now incorporated in industry, banking, and entertainment.
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