To create the caliber of inclusive cross-platform measurement that it aspires to – the Jont Industry Committee must broaden its horizons.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Growthery Category Online grocery sales ticked down 1% in August compared to a year ago, according to an annual tracker from Brick Meets Click. But there’s a lot going on in that 1%. The online grocery opportunity is still big, and some of […]
There’s a new TLA (“three-letter acronym”) that’s crept into the media-buying conversation. MFA: Made-for-advertising content. MFA is a combination of paid traffic, clickbait and other incentivized traffic, engineered to create ad impressions and generate revenue. New sites pop up virtually overnight with millions of impressions, sucking up ad dollars and hurting campaign performance, writes Tal Almany, VP of publisher development at Kargo.
The growth of connected TV advertising isn’t simmering down anytime soon – but the lack of an industrywide standard for campaign measurement is making it a rocky road. Several executives at AdMonsters’ Ops conference in New York City discussed how interoperability between TV publishers can help solve for some of the standstills stemming from the lack of consensus.
Connected TV has been a buzzword for years, but its categorization distinct from other over-the-top (OTT) media was only made official last summer. In August, the Media Rating Council (MRC) revised its official definitions to draw the line between CTV and OTT based on critical differences in measurement, viewability and attribution.
On Thursday, iSpot.tv announced its acquisition of Tunity, an app that helps users watch TVs in public spaces, to add out-of-home screens to its TV data set. Out-of-home represents a substantial missing piece from cross-screen TV measurement, but it’s a challenge to measure OOH viewers the same way you measure screens in living rooms.
What happens when the CEOs of Nielsen, Comscore and VideoAmp walk into a bar? … is nearly a joke you could have told on Tuesday. That’s when David Kenny, Nielsen’s CEO; Bill Livek, chief exec at Comscore; and VideoAmp CEO Ross McCray took to the stage at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting to talk measurement […]
“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 George Ivie, CEO and executive director at Media Rating Council. Most transactions are predicated on a good-faith promise. Parties agree to exchange goods, services or funds of agreed-upon value with […]
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 […]
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 […]
