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Ad verification company DoubleVerify said Tuesday it is launching a tool in January that will help advertisers take a more nuanced approach to their brand suitability needs. DoubleVerify said it is rolling out the “next evolution” of its brand safety and suitability solution, Brand Suitability Tiers, which will allow advertisers, publishers and platforms to speak […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Nielsen Gets The Nod Vizio is tapping Nielsen to measure its advanced TV campaigns as the CTV space heats up. Read the release. Vizio Ads, the company’s advertising business, will use Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings to help advertisers better measure and optimize digital audience […]

TV measurement is hamstrung by household-level data. Despite the scale of set-top box and smart TV data, there’s no easy way to connect ad exposure on a television to a specific person within a household. “And if you don’t break TV data down to the person, it’s very difficult to do cross-media measurement or run […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. YouTube Runs Defense YouTube is defending its decision to leave up videos falsely claiming that President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, Business Insider reports. Two days after the election, YouTube said it would allow videos proclaiming false or misleading election results, but that […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. WarningMedia After a second spate of layoffs at WarnerMedia on Tuesday, which hit between 5% to 7% of its 25,000 employees, CEO Jason Kilar addressed the company’s future during a town hall meeting. As per Business Insider, Kilar said that the “painful” cuts were […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. It’s All About Trust The political and cultural divide in the United States was starkly visible during the 2020 election – especially as the results rolled in last week. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to be a “healer in chief.” But as Campaign US […]

Over the past two years, NBCU has made inroads in the commerce arena, building capabilities that drive transactions directly and measuring those conversion events. The strategy makes sense: If you know your ad inventory drives purchases, you might as well go full Amazon and own the whole funnel. And NBCU has executed on that vision […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brian Ejsmont, VP of product management at VideoAmp. Recently, there’s been a lot of industry chatter from companies claiming they can reduce the latency of cross-channel reporting across attribution use cases, AKA “fast-twitch” reporting, enabling […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Disney Minus The Walt Disney Co. faces a moment of truth next week with the first anniversary of its launch of Disney Plus, The Information reports. This is when Verizon customers who signed up for the service through a one-year free promotion have to […]

Video streaming giant Roku’s revenue soared 73% YOY to $452 million in Q3. Roku’s Platform business – which includes advertising and content distribution revenue – saw its strongest quarter in the segment’s history, with revenue leaping 78% YOY to $319 million. Roku attributed the record Platform numbers to strong growth in advertising as brands embraced […]