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    Connected TV’s Growth Spurt; How Ozempic Is Upending Marketing

    In her last week at AdExchanger, Senior Editor Alyssa Boyle reflects on three years of change, and stasis, in the CTV space. Then, how Ozempic is changing the marketing world.

  • Sean Cunningham, President and CEO, VAB

    Video Measurement Is Getting Smarter – So Why Press For A Dumb Currency?

    We’re close to the onset of true cross-media measurement – with the understanding that all video impressions are not created equal. That seems obvious, but one key player in the ecosystem, YouTube, disagrees.

  • How Measuring The Summer Olympics Won iSpot The NBCU Alternate Currency Test

    During the Summer Olympics, iSpot went for gold – and won. The alternate measurement provider bested more than 50 companies NBCUniversal was trialing as a currency alternative to Nielsen. The testing ground? NBCU’s tentpole global sports event. “NBC didn’t just invite companies to submit RFP responses,” said Sean Muller, founder and CEO of iSpot.tv. “It […]

  • NBCU Calls For “Measurement Independence”; IAB Tech Lab Teams With The OAAA

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Under Pressure NBCUniversal is turning the screws on Nielsen as the MRC considers stripping its National TV rating. Nielsen has long dominated TV ratings but is under fire for underreporting viewers and missing visibility into streaming, mobile and desktop. The Olympics on NBC underwhelmed […]

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    The Big Story: Currently, On Currency

    This week, the Big Story is … well, it’s probably the double-barrel shotgun lawsuit staring down Facebook, but we recorded this podcast before that news broke. So this is a story about Big Things To Come as Nielsen revealed it will completely overhaul the currency used to transact TV advertising. The new currency, which is […]

  • Nielsen Updates Its TV Currency To Measure Addressable Ads

    Addressable TV advertising promises to deliver unique ads on a household-by-household or even individualized basis. The problem, however, is that the Nielsen ratings currency off which linear TV is transacted, isn’t designed to accommodate all that variability. And not being able to use the Nielsen rating on addressable ads keeps a lot of advertisers from […]