Cadence

Install Cadence

Audience measurement for your TV device. About ten minutes, using your remote.

1. Get a browser on the TV

TV sticks usually ship without one, and you need a browser to download the app. Open the Play Store on the TV, search for browser, and install any TV browser it offers. If your TV already has a browser, skip this step.

2. Download Cadence

In that browser on the TV, go to:

get.betaiq.tech

Download Cadence (.apk)

Downloading on a phone or laptop will not help — the app has to be installed on the TV device itself.

3. Allow the browser to install apps

  1. When the download finishes, choose Open or Install.
  2. The TV will say the browser is not allowed to install unknown apps. Choose Settings on that message and turn the browser on, then press Back.
  3. Choose Install.

You are allowing the browser to install apps, once. You can turn it off again afterwards.

4. Turn on usage access — the step that matters

  1. Open Cadence from the apps row. It will say SETUP NEEDED.
  2. Press Grant usage access.
  3. Find Cadence in the list, turn it on, then press Back.
  4. The screen should now read Cadence is set up and measuring. That is the whole setup.

Without this, Cadence installs and runs but measures nothing at all, and gives no sign that anything is wrong. If the screen still says SETUP NEEDED, the grant did not take — try step 4 again, or email us.

What Cadence collects. Which apps are opened on this TV and for how long. It does not record, capture or transmit what is on screen, and it does not read your accounts, messages or files.

How it is stored. Measurements are sent over HTTPS to Beta IQ and stored in South Africa, labelled with a random identifier generated on this device — not your name, and not the TV’s serial number. Beta IQ holds the link between that identifier and your household separately, and only for as long as you are on the panel.

Your choices. You can leave the panel at any time: uninstall Cadence from Settings › Apps, and contact Beta IQ to have your household’s data removed. Beta IQ is the responsible party for this processing under POPIA. Questions or a withdrawal request: privacy@betaiq.tech.