Measurement

The programmatic advertising landscape has never faced more complexity or challenges than it does today. However, at the same time, the opportunity for growth and refinement has never been greater. Here’s how marketers can take advantage of key trends shaping the space in 2022 and beyond, writes Sameer Sondhi, Co-CEO at Verve Group.

It’s time to stop talking and start doing. That’s the raison d’être, in a nutshell, behind a new community group – the Private Advertising Technology Community Group – housed within the World Wide Web Consortium.

Landing page specialist Unbounce is buying attribution and analytics software provider LeadsRx in a bid to help its SMB clients increase the quality and volume of their conversions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. M&A&A&A&A Digital ad dealmaking is off to the races in 2022 like a sprinter who doesn’t realize it’s a marathon.  On Tuesday, Human (née White Ops) raised $100 million from a new co-owner investment firm, and Integral Ad Science acquired the French startup […]

On Wednesday, Comscore announced plans to launch Comscore Everywhere, a cross-platform measurement suite that will eventually combine TV, connected TV, video, digital and social media measurement into one deduplicated offering. Nielsen, Comscore’s longtime rival, is also working on a cross-platform measurement solution called Nielsen ONE.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Criss-Cross Media Measurement CTV ad dollars are expected to double by 2026, according to GroupM’s most recent industry forecast – which means ad tech firms with advanced measurement capabilities could be looking to make acquisitions this year, Business Insider reports. Measurement companies have their […]

One of the most compelling soap operas of 2021 was the TV measurement debate. As the year ends, here’s one of our best reruns: the moment Nielsen lost its MRC accreditation.

2021 was a year of reckoning for TV measurement. On AdExchanger Talks, we spoke with three of the most important names in the space about these tectonic shifts: the CEOs of Nielsen, VideoAmp and Comscore. Here are the highlights.

A growing number of companies are working to assemble all the building blocks needed for converged TV audience measurement. As solutions continue to emerge, these core building blocks will determine the effectiveness of measurement methodologies – and whether they can enable buyers and sellers to realize the full potential of converged TV, writes Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO of CIMM.

Who says television and social media don’t mix? Not Comscore, at least. The TV and digital measurement company announced on Friday that it has acquired social media-focused audience intelligence platform Shareablee for $45 million. “The reason we did the deal is that the customers in our digital business told us they want Comscore to do […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Joshua Koran, EVP of data and policy at Criteo. While it’s easy for marketers to fixate on Google’s threatened “cookiepocolypse,” being too hyper-focused on engagement tactics misses the big picture. […]

Nielsen’s recent missteps have been Comscore’s opportunity to make hay. At the height of the pandemic, Nielsen identified an unlikely trend that the amount of time American adults spent with media while stuck at home had actually declined. But Comscore’s data told quite a different story, says CEO Bill Livek on this week’s episode. When […]

The recent bonanza of mobile M&A has more to do with the maturity of the market than it does with any defensive measures related to Apple’s new privacy features, according to Paul Müller, CEO and co-founder of mobile measurement company Adjust. Müller knows a little something about M&A. He sold his company for roughly $1 […]

First-Party Time  As first-party data sets grow, marketing operations are reining in their ad costs and boosting ROI, The Wall Street Journal reports. For example, PepsiCo has amassed around 75 million user records from its consumer base. This data saves tens of millions of dollars on ad spend, according to Shyam Venugopal, the SVP of […]

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is by Ionut Ciobotaru, co-CEO of Verve Group. A marketer’s ability to execute and understand campaigns through an omnichannel lens is improving, even in an ever-shifting privacy landscape. That’s a good thing.  However, as barriers between channels […]

When VideoAmp CEO and Founder Ross McCray first started reaching out to investors around seven years ago about his new company, they were less than impressed. “People hated the space,” McCray says on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. “I would go and pitch our solution about the future and you’d have VCs saying … […]

Nielsen took some kicks while it was down this year, delivered courtesy of rivals happy to capitalize on its MRC dis-accreditation and soured relationships with broadcasters. But big companies can take a few kicks, and still throw a few punches of their own. Nielsen is suing TVision and HyphaMetrics, two panel-based TV measurement startups, for […]

Although privacy and online advertising are often framed as mortal enemies – or at least mutually exclusive – it doesn’t have to be the case, says Lindsey Shepard, CMO of Mozilla, maker of the Firefox browser. “The advertising ecosystem online is fundamentally broken right now – I believe that,” says Shepard (although, you can call her “Shep”). […]

Nielsen’s panel woes mean alternative measurement providers are having their moment. “We’re getting a lot of inbounds,” said Joanna Drews, CEO and co-founder of HyphaMetrics, a measurement startup that launched last year and now has a panel that’s working to scale to 5,000 homes and roughly 15,000 devices. But the recent wave of interest in […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is by Nate Woodman, founder of independent consulting firm Proof.   AdExchanger readers should be familiar with the term “weaponized privacy.” The idea explains the primary effect of Big Tech raising the walls of their […]

A single Media Rating Council audit can take thousands of man hours and cost tens of thousands of dollars depending on a vendor’s size and the complexity of its offering. It’s a long and rigorous process – which is why the MRC doesn’t take suspending or withdrawing a company’s seal of approval lightly, said George […]

“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Jane Clarke, managing director and CEO at the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM). With the ever-increasing availability of larger and more granular media exposure data sets, one of the primary questions in cross-platform […]

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is by Willard Simmons, VP, Product Management, Ad Platform, Roku. A mentor of mine used to say, “Money flows to certainty and flows away from uncertainty.” The reach and effectiveness of TV streaming is certain: The sight, […]

Nielsen’s been through the wringer this year. After underreporting local TV viewing during the pandemic, long-standing frustrations in the television industry hit a boiling point and interest in alternative measurement currencies began to peak. In September, after the Video Advertising Bureau rattled its saber and formally called for Nielsen’s Media Rating Council accreditation to be […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Beth Sanville, SVP, Analytics, Merkle.  It’s no secret that consumers expect companies to care about their needs and personalize their individual journeys. Brands, once fueled largely by advertising, are now […]

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is by Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction.  Nearly two decades ago, a group of top brand CMOs met secretly in the Procter & Gamble conference room. The topic: How do we change the arbitraged system […]

Attribution on Facebook ain’t what it used to be. The Facebook that enabled hundreds of creative versions, targeting variations and near-instantaneous optimization – all fed by data – is changing. Apple took a big bite out of Facebook’s attribution capabilities when its AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) required apps to collect a user opt-in to track their account […]

Data clean rooms are secure – that’s the whole point. But they’re not always flexible or scalable, said Jason Manninghan, CEO of advanced TV data platform Blockgraph, which is jointly owned by Comcast, Charter and ViacomCBS. TV advertisers in particular need a wide range of capabilities in order to tie media spend with viewing and campaign […]

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is by Tom Donoghue, VP of CTV and OTT at GroundTruth. As we all get set to enjoy the traditions of fall, such as watching the leaves turn colors, visiting a pumpkin patch with the kids and […]

This is part one of a two-part deep dive series on the changing face of attribution. Facebook’s had a tough time of it recently. There was the explosive Wall Street Journal Facebook exposé, whistleblowing on Capitol Hill and the stock market’s reaction, which shaved tens of billions off Facebook’s valuation in a single day. But […]