Nielsen One

On Wednesday, and in time for the upfronts, Nielsen added more than 200 advanced audience segments in Nielsen ONE, its cross-platform analytics dashboard.

Meet AD-ID, which was founded in 2002 as a joint venture of the 4A’s and the Association of National Advertisers with the mission of devising a digital system for identifying advertising assets.

Ever since Nielsen was dinged for undercounting TV viewers during the pandemic, its competitors have been fighting to convince buyers and sellers alike to adopt them as alternatives. And yet, some industry insiders argue that alt currencies weren’t ever meant to supplant Nielsen.

If the nonstop news coming out of Cannes Lions in France this week is making your head spin, this week’s newsletter dispatch will catch you up on how CTV is factoring into this year’s festival.

Comscore announced that it secured Media Rating Council accreditation for both national and local TV ratings – just in time for this year’s upfront negotiations.

AdExchanger asked a handful of agencies and advertisers to (anonymously) name which they consider to be the top TV currency contenders going into 2024.

Nielsen told its clients on Thursday that it will not, in fact, be sunsetting its average commercial minute (C3 and C7) ratings by September of next year as planned.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. To The Core Nielsen is trimming its workforce – again – and by quite a lot this time, Ad Age reports. On Wednesday, the TV ratings giant announced plans to cut its global personnel by around 9% “in an effort to bring costs […]

Nielsen finalizes its plan to add big data to its measurement currency offering for national TV. Here’s what it means for advertisers.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. No Snappy Comeback In 2021, when Apple announced ATT, Snapchat Co-Founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said he was “happy to see [Apple] making the right decision for their customers.” Fast-forward a couple of years, and Spiegel is less glowing about ATT, which severely […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Voyage Of Discovery Newspaper publisher Gannett is suing Google for alleged ad tech monopolization. Google, of course, disputes the charge. Dan Taylor, VP of Google Ads, tells The Wall Street Journal Google will “show the court how our advertising products benefit publishers […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Split Decision The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, charged Google’s digital ad business with antitrust violations on Wednesday, CNBC reports. After a nearly two-year investigation, the commission found that Google’s end-to-end ad platform violates EU antitrust law. It pointed […]

The JIC is looking to set the record straight on not just its requirements for currency, but also that it believes those requirements are sufficient even without requiring MRC accreditation.

The MRC reinstating its accreditation of Nielsen’s national ratings might improve the measurement giant’s standing in the TV currency race.

This year, Nielsen plans to start filtering big data into its TV currency – including ACR.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Listening Ears Hear that? It’s the sound of TikTok doing the podcasting thing. Insider reports that TikTok is testing a new “Podcasts” feature that allows users to continue listening to a program while TikTok runs in the background. Typically, leaving the app automatically pauses […]

Phase one of Nielsen ONE is finally complete. ONE Ads, the first module of Nielsen’s cross-screen measurement platform Nielsen ONE, will be available starting January 11.

In 2022, Nielsen was no longer king, alternate currencies stole the show and a new type of panel emerged. Could 2023 be the year that measurement finally matures?

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shake-Up At Nielsen Nielsen just can’t catch a break. First, Nielsen lost its MRC accreditation. Now the company is undergoing a massive reorg – and some industry folks are worried Nielsen might miss a very important deadline. Nielsen’s revamped measurement platform, Nielsen ONE, […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Has Lifetime Value Timed Out? It was the best of LTV, it was the worst of LTV. In mobile marketing, lifetime value (LTV) has long been considered a key metric for many data-savvy marketers. But times are changing, writes Eric Seufert at Mobile Dev […]

To plan, target and measure media buys on TV, advertisers need to resolve identity at the household level, which calls for full media transparency, said Kelly Metz, managing director of linear and advanced TV activation at Omnicom Media Group. Kelly Metz will be speaking about the future of TV measurement at AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O conference on October 17-18 in New York City. Click here to register.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Late To The Party  Nielsen is gearing up to launch its cross-channel measurement platform, Nielsen ONE, in December. On Tuesday, the TV ratings giant added YouTube and YouTube TV campaigns to its “always on” Digital Ad Ratings (DAR) tool.   Wait … didn’t this already […]

Roku became the second major CTV publisher to adopt Nielsen’s new ad deduplication tool for measuring its ads across linear and streaming video inventory, following YouTube this summer. The tool is designed to help programmers deduplicate audiences across linear and streaming by comparing reach across screens, Kim Gilberti, SVP of product management at Nielsen, told AdExchanger.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. OneView, Meet ONE AdExchanger has previously referred to Roku and Nielsen’s relationship as a “strategic accord.”   Roku was the first streaming media platform to use Nielsen ratings and has delivered semi-annual doses of good PR to Nielsen during a dismal streak. And when […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Games Or Gains? Gaming on Netflix isn’t taking off. That’s hardly surprising – you may very well not even have known Netflix has gaming. And that’s a problem for Netflix, which is looking to increase its subscriber base (or at least keep existing subscribers […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Through The Tube Nielsen has another horse in the measurement race, and this one’s name is Good Ol’ YouTube. Nielsen’s new Four-Screen Ad Deduplication product allows media buyers to compare their reach on YouTube across desktop, mobile, CTV and their linear audiences to reduce […]

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 […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Big Game Amazon CEO Andy Jessy (Jeff who?) issued a bold statement at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle this week. “In the case of games, we have a belief that that could end up being the largest category in entertainment over a long period […]

Allison Schiff contributed Twitter is expanding its relationship with Nielsen to boost its ability to plan and execute video strategies. The company will integrate Nielsen Media Impact (NMI) and Nielsen Ad Intel — solutions that help advertisers to measure and plan campaigns across a variety of media platforms — into the Twitter Amplify video ad […]