Measurement

Apple startled advertisers and the mobile app community earlier this month when it rejected several apps from the Apps Store for deriving data from the Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) without serving ads. It is unclear whether Apple will continue to restrict certain uses of the IDFA, but advertisers are already looking for alternative solutions. AdExchanger […]

Despite Wine Enthusiast’s history marketing through direct mail, the purveyor of accessories and storage for wine connoisseurs is pushing into digital channels to complement its catalog business. Founded in 1979, Wine Enthusiast has published more than 300 million catalogs to date. It has a publishing arm, several Internet properties and a B2B distribution division responsible […]

Marketers need to fundamentally rethink the traditional purchase funnel if they want to effectively target media and messaging in the future, says Kate Sirkin, EVP and global research director of Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG). Leading a discussion at Publicis Groupe’s New York headquarters Thursday alongside social analytics agency Mashwork, Sirkin discussed how social data is unlocking […]

“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 Roger Barnette, president at IgnitionOne. Brand marketers have long judged success of their digital advertising by using the “soft goals” of brand engagement. Soft goals, such as reach, views and […]

Mobile advertising firm Amobee launched Wednesday a platform update, Amobee LTV (an acronym for “Lifetime Value”), designed to provide app publishers and advertisers insights into who their users are and how they’re using the apps. The release follows Apple’s rejection of apps that derive data from the Identifier For Advertisers (IDFA) without serving ads, a […]

A week after teaming up with Google, comScore unveiled Tuesday three new partnerships with data brokers Acxiom and Epsilon and digital media company Batanga Media. While comScore’s collaboration with Google involved adding real-time metrics to its validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) platform via Google’s DoubleClick platform, comScore intends for its latest partnerships to expand its data […]

Many app developers and ad tech vendors received a jolt recently when Apple began rejecting some apps that retrieve a user’s Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) without serving an ad. Apple’s decision was especially surprising, since the device manufacturer had allowed that activity for nearly two years. Regardless of Apple’s motivations for this change (the company did […]

Although the jury is out whether consumers will completely cut the cord on traditional TV consumption and migrate en masse to Web streaming, publishers are preparing for the cross-platform possibilities presented by shifting viewer habits. “We’re moving toward consistent measurement,” commented Sarah Baehr, SVP of digital for independent media buying agency Carat, citing the cross-platform […]

FreeWheel, a technology and services company cofounded seven years ago by Jonathan Heller, Doug Knopper and Diane Yu, helps media companies like NBCUniversal and Viacom connect TV buyers with premium digital video inventory. It also worked with Amazon to help power video ad content for the ecommerce giant. Knopper, who also serves as FreeWheel’s co-CEO, […]

Google is injecting real-time metrics into its DoubleClick ad business via a partnership with comScore, the Mountain View, Calif., company said Tuesday. On day two of the IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting, Neal Mohan, Google’s VP of display advertising, outlined the challenges marketers face in measuring the results of digital ad campaigns. “Existing frameworks don’t do a […]

Google’s shift of ads and commerce chief Susan Wojcicki Wednesday to SVP of YouTube, which has 20.5% stake in the US video ad market, and which eMarketer estimated had $5.6 billion in gross ad revenue last year, comes at a critical time for the online video platform. With Wojcicki’s appointment, Salar Kamangar, SVP of YouTube […]

Korrelate, a four-year-old data play founded by former executives of Tacoda, will suspend operations this week after failing to find a buyer. The company was born in 2010 as Ad Summos with a pledge to help publishers link their website visitors to real-world actions – such as buying a car. It was among the early […]

Video demand-side platform provider TubeMogul is adding a viewability-reporting feature within its dashboard today, promising to give marketers a record of where their video ads are seen and tools designed to improve ad avoidance. “By integrating viewability reporting into our ad-buying software, we can provide metrics at the site level,” said TubeMogul CEO Brett Wilson. […]

Marketers looking to account for offline campaign spend are up against a similar challenge as digital advertisers: attribution. Because the measure of success for offline activity is often contingent upon transactional data or the point-of-sale record, more weight is typically assigned to lower-funnel factors such as sales uplift. At the same time, marketers in the […]

While publishers generally concede that brand advertisers will pay higher CPMs for “in-view” ads, there’s less acceptance around the different tools, like Nielsen’s Online Campaign Ratings or comScore’s Validated Campaign Ratings (vCE), designed to determine viewability. The big problem is that the viewability solutions have so far tended to focus on the advertisers, leaving publishers […]

Since 1976, SAS has developed analytics software to extract intelligence from spectacularly large datasets. Much of its dealings occur in financial services, where decisions around fraud, compliance and risk require trillions of computations. But the comparatively recent proliferation of online channels has created a need for rich analytics among marketers. And as the marketing and […]

Last summer, analysts and industry players predicted viewability would become the standard metric for display branding performance. But for Jonah Goodhart, CEO of analytics services provider Moat, viewability is a starting point to determine the value of a display placement instead of the tool that will kill the clickthrough. “Two-thirds of all the world’s ad […]

In an effort to solidify the stature of its ad viewability offerings, the Google Display Network now allows advertisers to choose to buy only viewable impressions. The addition of the viewability-only option also reflects the demands of Google’s marketing partnerships. “We’ve been making a number of investments to make digital work for brands [including introducing […]

The big problem advertisers have assessing the value of video viewability is that the metric means something different every time it’s used. Publicis Groupe digital buying hub VivaKi hopes it can promise clients across its media-agency siblings a single definition for viewability by using video ad server Vindico’s verification tool, AdTricity, for all video ad […]

After several months in beta, Nielsen is finishing its decadelong project to combine audience measurement of TV, online and mobile with its Digital Program Ratings (DPR). The company is winding down a pilot test, running since May, with nine major clients: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CW, A&E, Discovery, Univision and AOL. DPR’s public debut next […]

A new report from Neustar’s Aggregate Knowledge notes the strong performance of advertising in social channels in terms of reach (58% better than exchanges) and the ability to deliver more high-quality buyers than ad portals, networks and exchanges. According to Aggregate Knowledge President Rob Gatto, this portends a shift in the role of social advertising […]

While location-based ad delivery was once limited strictly to geofencing, the ability to combine device identifiers, geographic coordinates, and customer history data has added sophistication to location targeting. PlaceIQ is one of the latest companies attempting to introduce more value into location advertising via two product roll-outs last Friday. PIQ Analytics and PreVisit are designed […]

Real-time bidding has gained appeal with major brands, but the idea of using exchange buys for awareness campaigns often spurs the question: How do we measure this? Videocentric demand-side platform Dennoo is getting some attention for the guarantees it offers buyers for its time-based “cost-per-view” pricing model as an alternative to bidding on CPMs. “In […]

The Media Rating Council (MRC) is likely to lift its Viewable Impression Advisory early next year, giving marketers a green light to buy digital media on viewable metrics. This move has also caused vendors to scramble to position their solutions in anticipation of a demand spike for measurement tools. Assessing ad viewability has traditionally been […]

Ecommerce spending in the US grew 13% year-over-year in the third quarter to $47.5 billion, a softening from Q2 when the growth rate hit 15%, according to comScore’s State of the US Online Retail Economy report. “There was a bit of a dip in consumer sentiment,” commented Andrew Lipsman, VP of industry analysis at comScore. […]

Publishers have increasingly embraced products that provide more insight into their inventory and help them manage their ad operations. Yesterday at a panel discussion moderated by Yieldex CRO Andrew Rutledge at ad:tech New York, executives from Fox News Digital, Viacom, Washington Post Digital and Turner Broadcasting discussed the tools they’re using to better leverage ad […]

A lot has been said lately about Twitter’s reach in terms of its monthly active users, but its ability to collect data through plugins like social sharing buttons has gone widely unmentioned. Many websites today include “buttons” on their pages that allow visitors to share content on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social networks by […]

Nielsen recently expanded its partnership with consumer data specialist Experian to cover the former’s Online Campaign Ratings with additional layers of demographic data. The new data represents progress, but some publishers are concerned. Media sellers fault both Nielsen and its audience measurement rival comScore, with its validated Campaign Ratings (vCE), for not keeping up with data-management […]

A panel covering RTB and “viewability” played to a packed room atop the Gansevoort Park Hotel in New York last night. What commenced was a (congenially heated, at times) meeting of the minds between James Green, CEO of Magnetic; Anne Hunter, SVP of global marketing strategy at comScore; Brian Gleason, managing director, North America, Xaxis; […]

Panel-based TV ratings and TV-themed “social buzz” are on a collision course, and audience research mainstay Nielsen is doing everything it can to retain its pole position.  The company today announced “Nielsen Twitter TV Ratings” to measure TV-related Twitter discussion — both the volume of discussion and its total reach. Last fall, Nielsen, through a joint […]