Measurement

ComScore has added mobile ad network rankings to Media Metrix. The new reporting will be called Mobile Metrix and become part of the overall Media Metrix product suite. Until now, Media Metrix was focused on the desktop side of things, providing info on website audiences, including consumption habits, demographics and cross-site visitation for more than […]

The year of mobile, the decade of mobile, the year of data – none of the monikers matter if the right measurement isn’t in place. “Clients are still looking for ROI and to connect the dots,” said Jeff Hinz, managing partner and US digital director at Mediacom, speaking at the Mobile Media Summit on Monday during […]

Rakuten Marketing is gunning to be a full-funnel ad stack. Acquisition has been front and center in the Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten’s strategy, with investments in search, affiliate, display, mobile and attribution on the marketing services side. But there are different integration requirements since some of Rakuten’s acquired assets are consumer-facing while others are not. “It’s complex […]

It’s time for the next can of worms: mobile viewability. And the mobile ad vendors are already on the scene. Less than two weeks after the Media Rating Council (MRC) issued its long-awaited interim guidance on mobile viewability measurement, three separate mobile media sellers – Millennial Media, 33Across and JUICE Mobile – have announced their intention to offer a 100% […]

Fatemeh Khatibloo, principal analyst at Forrester, will appear at AdExchanger’s CleanAds I/O conference on June 3, an event addressing inventory quality and supply chain issues in the digital advertising ecosystem. As adland moves to clean up the supply chain and weed out fraud, the consumer perspective on data safety risks is becoming an afterthought. Fatemeh […]

John Montgomery, COO of GroupM Interaction, North America will appear at AdExchanger’s upcoming CleanAds I/O conference on June 3​, an event addressing inventory quality and supply chain issues in the digital advertising ecosystem. GroupM’s stance on viewability is clear: “If an ad can’t be seen, then we can’t expect clients to pay for it,” said […]

“The Sell Sider” is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today’s column is written by Will Doherty, VP of business development at Index Exchange. In order to effectively leverage viewability in a programmatic marketplace, buyers and sellers need to start thinking of it as a currency and not as […]

Viewability and fraud will be addressed at AdExchanger’s upcoming CleanAds I/O conference on June 3​​, along with a host of other inventory quality and supply chain issues in the digital advertising ecosystem. Screening out fraudulent and non-viewable ads  has never been easier or more popular. Last summer AdExchanger reported that the number of marketers running viewability […]

Nielsen and Roku’s marriage for over-the-top (OTT) measurement, along with Roku’s development of a unique device identifier, may be a watershed moment for the connected TV ecosystem. The agreement, announced last Thursday, will enable Roku’s publisher partners to measure the impact of ads on some 10 million set-top boxes by accessing Nielsen’s demographic data and […]

Analytics giant comScore is looking to bolster the bid.  The company announced Tuesday that it has acquired Proximic, a company whose pre-bid solution comScore plans to use to support its validated Campaign Essentials and Media Metrix products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Proximic’s technology is centered on real-time contextual, rather than semantic, analysis at […]