Brand awareness is top of mind for PepsiCo’s senior director of media strategy and investment Katie Haniffy. And PepsiCo is focused on adjusting its brand awareness campaigns in response to shifting consumer behavior, as well as pivoting to keep up with the latest evolutions in ad tech.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Did The Oracle Get It Wrong? Is it time to call it on Oracle Advertising? The group had painful layoffs this summer and has fallen behind rivals, Insider reports. Oracle spent $4 billion to package BlueKai, Datalogix, Moat and more into what’s now […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Back To The Scoreboard Ad tech is revisiting panels. In some cases, that also means revisiting Nielsen. Amazon Prime, which has exclusive airing rights to the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football,” signed a three-year deal with Nielsen on Tuesday to do audience measurement for […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Paid Upfront NBCUniversal says this year’s upfronts was its highest-grossing since Comcast acquired the programmer in 2013. Unsurprisingly, streaming media helped break the record. Of NBCU’s $7 billion in ad commitments, per a release, $1 billion is earmarked for its AVOD service Peacock […]
You’d be forgiven for thinking of the Video Advertising Bureau as a professional thorn in Nielsen’s side. The TV ad industry trade org is largely responsible for the chain of events that led to Nielsen losing its MRC accreditations last year. But “this isn’t personal,” says VAB CEO Sean Cunningham on this week’s episode. “I don’t know that anyone’s rooting harder than we are for [Nielsen] to get it right.”
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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. I See You … Tube DoubleVerify has gained MRC accreditation as a third-party measurement provider of viewability reporting on YouTube. Specifically, the seal covers DoubleVerify’s access to YouTube site and in-app page-level information via Ads Data Hub, the cloud service that houses Google’s […]
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Retail media is reaching the C-suite, with advertising (and first-party data projects) coming up in retailer earnings. Then, we talk about the $16 billion deal to buy Nielsen.
Nielsen announced it’s selling itself to a private equity group for $16 billion. The future might be iffy for Nielsen, but it’s much more certain for the rest of the industry. Industry experts say a buyout of this size is a “boost of momentum” toward a multicurrency future that offers TV marketers the speed and transparency they’re looking for across platforms.
