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First, the VAB clashes with Nielsen over Big Data, and Pinterest teams up with tvScientific. Plus, Google Ad Manager rolls out major EU changes, from ditching Unified Pricing Rules to deeper data sharing with publishers.

Now that upfront negotiations are almost over, the industry appears to have settled back into its default position of being mad at Nielsen – which is likely good news for its currency competitors, but not so great for everyone else in the meantime.

When platforms choose to label any significant portion of an ad buy as “other,” it’s a deliberate decision to withhold information for the seller’s benefit and the buyer’s detriment.

TV buyers predict that streaming publishers will heed their demands for greater flexibility, more programmatic execution and improved measurement during this year’s upfront season.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Panel Discussion Bad news for Nielsen: Another panel has entered the arena. Samba TV is teaming up with HyphaMetrics to launch a panel for measuring video viewership across linear, streaming and other digital formats, Ad Age reports. HyphaMetrics plans to use Samba TV’s […]

From clear-eyed looks at the industry’s shortcomings and conflicts of interest to prognostications that presage the next batch of conference panel talking points, you can count on these astute industry voices to drive the conversation.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Amazon Wins Again Last week, ecommerce market research company Marketplace Pulse disclosed that Amazon advertisers can serve ads directly on Facebook and Instagram using Amazon in-app checkout.  This week, The Information reports Amazon has landed a similar partnership with Snapchat. Oh, and Amazon […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. All Is Fair In Love And Panels Nielsen has changed its mind: It won’t force Amazon streaming data into its TV ratings, Ad Age reports. After over a week of drama, which involved exchanging letters with the Video Advertising Bureau, Nielsen is going back […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Two Kinds Of ECGs The TV industry is riled up over Nielsen’s plans to incorporate Amazon’s streaming data in time for the next season of Thursday Night Football. On Wednesday, the ratings giant responded to the letter the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB) sent […]

The second round of ad fraud (and worse) alleged by Adalytics on the part of Google/YouTube provides yet another definitive example of the problem with mega walled gardens.

It’s only fitting that YouTube, which has long coveted TV’s ad dollars and advertisers, should find out what it feels like to be treated as if it were TV.

We’re close to the onset of true cross-media measurement – with the understanding that all video impressions are not created equal. That seems obvious, but one key player in the ecosystem, YouTube, disagrees.

To create the caliber of inclusive cross-platform measurement that it aspires to – the Jont Industry Committee must broaden its horizons.

Broadcasters have long been dissatisfied with Nielsen’s panel-based approach. But now, panels are making headlines again as a fresh way to measure streaming and TV consumption. But this time, the TV industry says it’s talking about “calibration panels,” not audience panels.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Plus Interest The idea of a “subscription economy” has grown beyond news and entertainment – and as subscription-based relationships become more valuable, it creates a new way for businesses to work together. Case in point: Walmart talked to Comcast, Paramount and Disney execs about a […]

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.”

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.

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is by Jo Kinsella, President, TVSquared. Since the dawn of TV, Nielsen ratings have been the gold standard for marketers. They measured the percentage of a group (e.g., women aged 18-49) or households in a particular designated […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sting Like A VAB Days after the Media Rating Council stripped Nielsen of its accreditation for National and Local TV Ratings, the Video Advertising Bureau is getting in another dig. The industry group kickstarted Nielsen’s MRC drama in July with a call to remove […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Audit Demanded Remember when the TV networks and Nielsen got into a pretty big fight because Nielsen didn’t do such a great job of measuring TV audiences during the pandemic? Well, CBS, ABC, NBC and other TV networks are now calling for an audit […]