Skip to main content

Header top menus

  • Annual Report 2025
  • State of the Union 2025
  • State of the Union 2026
  • CIM ONE
  • ToVA

Gebruikersmenu

  • Log in
Home
  • News
  • Results center
    • Audio On Demand
    • CrossMedia
    • Digital
    • Establishment Survey
    • Golden Standard
    • Out of Home
    • Publishing
    • Radio & Audio
    • TV & Video
  • Governance & Methodology
    • Subscribers
    • Methodologies
    • Regulations
    • Technical Committees
    • Strategic Committees
    • Software vendors
  • Events & On Demand
  • About the CIM
    • Team and Organization
    • Collaborations
    • Membership
    • Downloads
    • Job offers

Header top menus

  • Annual Report 2025
  • State of the Union 2025
  • State of the Union 2026
  • CIM ONE
  • ToVA

Gebruikersmenu

  • Log in
  • NL
  • FR
  • English

Contact menu

  • Contact

Contact menu

  • Contact
  • NL
  • FR
  • English

List of terms

Transparency starts with clear definitions.
Since media research relies on accurate methodologies and consistent terminology, we have compiled the most important concepts here. This glossary will help you correctly interpret our studies and results.

(
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
D
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
F
F
F
F
F
F
G
G
G
G
G
G
G
H
H
H
H
H
H
H
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
J
J
K
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
L
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
M
N
N
N
O
O
O
O
O
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
P
Q
Q
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
R
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
T
U
U
U
U
U
U
U
U
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
V
W
W
W
W
W
W
X
X
X
Z

Confidence interval

Cache

Campaign

Campaign report

CAPI

CASI

CAT (CIM Audio Time)

CATI

CAWI

CIM

CIM Internet Tag

CIM ONE

CIM OOH (Out-Of-Home)

Click

Click through ratio (CTR)

CMP

CNI

Co-branding

CommPass

Compensation

Contact

Contactdistribution

Content provider

Cookie

Crawl

Cross-media behaviour

Coverage

Cumulative reach

Codes of Conduct

Content integration

Cost per thousand / contacts (CPM)

Cost per thousand / readers viewers

Cost per GRP (K/GRP)

Circulation

Correction

Commercial break

Cinema network

Be the first to know about everything happening in the Belgian media landscape.

Several times a year, the CIM publishes Newsflashes with hot news, breaking updates, and new figures, as well as updates on CIM ONE, and Monthly editions with clear overviews, insights, trends, and analyses you won't find anywhere else.

Register
In our newsletters you will discover:
The latest results from the CIM studies for television, radio, digital, press and out-of-home;
Surprising developments in media consumption;
Updates on projects, methodology and innovations within the CIM;
Events, releases and other activities you don't want to miss;
“Figures & Facts”: short facts that you can use immediately in presentations or strategic discussions.
Image

Credibility in Media – independent and validated media data 

 

Quick links

  • News
  • CIM ONE
  • Results center
  • Events & On Demand
  • Contact
  • State of the Union 2024
  • State of the Union 2025
  • State of the Union 2026
  • Login
  • List of terms
  • Agenda

Governance & Methodology

  • Methodologies
  • Regulations
  • Technical Committees
  • Strategic Committees
  • Software Vendors

Downloads

  • Annual Reports
  • Study Results
  • Whitepapers
  • Methodologies
  • Study Regulations
  • Internal Regulations
  • Articles of the Association
  • Memorandum

About CIM

  • About the CIM
  • Membership
  • Legal Information
  • Downloads
Back to top

© 2025 CIM

Footer bottom menus

  • Privacy Policy

Boulevard A. Reyerslaan 80
1030 Brussels
Belgium

info@cim.be
+32 (2) 661 31 50
  • Linkedin

User login

Enter your username or email address.