Nielsen took some kicks while it was down this year, delivered courtesy of rivals happy to capitalize on its MRC dis-accreditation and soured relationships with broadcasters. But big companies can take a few kicks, and still throw a few punches of their own. Nielsen is suing TVision and HyphaMetrics, two panel-based TV measurement startups, for […]
Nielsen’s panel woes mean alternative measurement providers are having their moment. “We’re getting a lot of inbounds,” said Joanna Drews, CEO and co-founder of HyphaMetrics, a measurement startup that launched last year and now has a panel that’s working to scale to 5,000 homes and roughly 15,000 devices. But the recent wave of interest in […]
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 […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Marilois Snowman, CEO and founder of Mediastruction. Nearly two decades ago, a group of top brand CMOs met secretly in the Procter & Gamble conference room. The topic: How do we change the arbitraged system […]
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 […]
Advertisers are ready to buy TV like they buy digital, says Dave Clark, general manager of Comcast-owned FreeWheel, on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. As digital-like capabilities rapidly come online in the TV space – like buying across fragmented audiences, managing frequency, better targeting and understanding lower-funnel metrics – the demand is proving quick to follow, […]
VideoAmp is getting its shot to take on Nielsen. ViacomCBS tapped the measurement company to guarantee media buys. VideoAmp will measure TV campaigns based on traditional age and gender demographics for linear TV. It will also guarantee advanced audiences. The move marks yet another shift away from the industry’s reliance on Nielsen as the dominant […]
“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by Brian Kim, CEO at Relo Metrics. Everybody knows the old adage, nobody gets fired for buying IBM. In the television or sport industry, until recently, the same could have been said for the decision to […]
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