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[meowminx]

It seems DC Comics has teamed up with Nielsen NRG to get some actual stats on comic book readers. Maybe they'll realize that there actually is a female readership out there that they shouldn't alienate!

More info about the survey here for anyone who's interested. I already filled it out myself

Comments

[mindyourhealth]

They told me I didn't qualify for their survey. Probably because I put 'didn't want and didn't buy' for just about everything save the ones I didn't know, and the Lantern stuff which is 'want but didn't buy'.

/shrug

They're looking for people who'll kiss their ass.

[meowminx]

Well later on they were asking for specific comments on what you read and if you would be rebuying certain titles, so a lot of the questions you need to have bought/read stuff to answer.

[incywincyhero]

Yeah, but they could also have asked questions about why a prospective reader didn't actually make the purchase -- you'd think that's the kind of data a media company faced with dwindling readership would want to have.

[meowminx]

True! But I think this is the same Nielsen who does the TV viewer ratings, so I guess I just think of them as... counting viewers really. IDK.

[xuffasch]

It's probably bad that I stared at "Nerak" for a good ten minutes before I realized it was fake. I tend to stick to certain parts of the universe, so I seriously thought it was a title I just missed.

It's be fantastic if they actually took all this into account; I'm glad a third party is running it.

[meowminx]

I was just "Why haven't I heard of that one?" and marked it as such and moved on.

I thought maybe it was a stone-age type thing like Turok >.>

[borntobewildcat]

I wrote like 4 paragraphs worth of opinions on the whole reboot and everything.

Then they told me I didn't qualify...

[meowminx]

What? Why?

[shadowinari]

I have no idea. I made sure to select that I'd "never heard of" the Nerak title. Other than that, I can't say. I made sure to say that I hadn't read/bought the titles that come out today as well.

I'm just going to second the idea that they only want people who say nice things about them instead of people who are trying to point out the weaknesses in their strategy.

[meowminx]

See, I did say I bought the titles coming out today because they're on my pull list. And I had plenty of critique. IDK.

[undeadsidekick]

I just tl;dred for the better part of an hour at them. Plus the tiny pages loaded slowly. Here's hoping they actually read it though.

[gatewhatgate]

I TL;DR'd a bunch and then got flummoxed at the "zip code".

Uh

I guess it's for Americans 'cause I have a postal code, which is six numbers not five.

(When they asked for a state for my LCS, I just picked a random one and then noted what I did in the text box later)

[sh_consulting]

Yeeeeah that's what I did. :|