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The most interesting nuggets coming out of the NewFronts presentations this week are candid moments that reflect the debate raging between broadcasters, ad buyers and alternative measurement providers looking to dethrone Nielsen.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currency Contest Can the TV industry’s currency debate get any hotter? (For something so in the weeds, that is.) Guess so. Nielsen has formally repudiated the broadcaster-backed joint industry committee’s (JIC) video standards agreement. In a letter to OpenAP, the data vendor behind […]

After a 19-month suspension, MRC’s decision this week to reinstate Nielsen’s national TV audience-measurement service couldn’t have come at a better time. However, it’s important to note, that accreditation only applies to national TV services and there are still several other Nielsen products without accreditation.

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

Nielsen has re-earned its accreditation from the Media Rating Council for national TV ratings. But will Nielsen be able to regain the industry’s trust before it’s too late?

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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. No Fund At All After luring influencers with massive creator funds, social media companies are reverting back to an advertising revenue-share model to compensate creators. Meta will put its Reels Play bonus program for US Instagram users on hold, and Facebook is dropping […]

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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. What Sorcery Is This The CNIL, France’s data protection authority, has been busy lately. The agency fined TikTok earlier this week, Apple a week before that and, on Tuesday, decided a case that could have important ramifications for ad tracking on iOS. What’s […]

National broadcasters, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Fox and NBCU, are forming a joint industry committee to create a standard for multiple cross-platform video currencies in time for the 2024 upfronts. Notably absent from that initial list: Nielsen.

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The benefits of technology are seemingly endless. Yet despite the many doors that smart TVs will open in the years ahead, they won’t – by themselves – provide the media industry with an accurate view of who’s using them, writes Jonathan Wells, SVP of data science at Nielsen.

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Streaming has a Hispanic underrepresentation problem. Hispanic Americans account for nearly 20% of the US population, but Latino actors were cast in only 5.5% of the roles in digital programming during the 2019-2020 broadcast season. The representation gap is even wider in streaming TV than it is in broadcast, where Latino actors accounted for 6.3% of all roles.

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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.

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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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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.

Kelly Abcarian joined NBCU last year to lead a team tasked with disrupting the measurement status quo. “Marketers don’t buy ratings,” Abcarian says on this week’s episode. “They buy results.” NBCU’s roster of alternative measurement and audience verification providers now includes seven partners – and counting.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Keep It Clean Clean room?  More like a mud room. It’s where people can leave their “dirty” (read: private first-party) data without ruining the rest of the house.  The marketer point of view often goes something like this: “‘Our data is going to […]