VideoAmp

Nielsen’s complaint against VideoAmp is the ninth patent infringement lawsuit it’s brought against rival companies in just three years.

In today’s newsletter: Nielsen sues VideoAmp alleging patent infringement; Rembrand’s virtual product placements hit social media; and the MOW, CMA and publishers cry foul over the Chrome Privacy Sandbox’s Related Website Sets.

The ad industry’s lofty ambitions for alternative currencies has come back down to planet Earth. Alt currencies struggle to gain market share because most buyers and sellers still transact on Nielsen numbers, while audience panels are back on the measurement menu.

CES this year was a petri dish of news and gossip (and hopefully not COVID) among the CTV ad industry.

VideoAmp may have established itself as one of the top alternative currency contenders in 2023, but the pressure to win market share is causing cracks in its shiny facade.

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 […]

2023 was an eventful year in the land of TV ad measurement, from buy-side demand for performance-oriented CTV campaigns to the dramatic competition between alternative TV measurement providers.

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

TV ad measurement is still a mess of data fragmentation and marketer frustration, but identity can help bring some order to the chaos.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Maxxed Out Google will temporarily allow opt-outs for its search partner network, GSP, which serves ads for searches on non-Google sites, Adweek reports. Google is responding to a report last week by Adalytics, an ad tech auditing outfit. Adalytics demonstrated how Google advertisers […]

It may look as if there hasn’t been much progress with alternative currencies – at least not commensurate with the hype. Just because alt currencies didn’t take over the upfronts this year doesn’t mean there hasn’t been movement.

The broadcaster-backed joint industry committee grants “conditional certification” to Comscore, VideoAmp and iSpot.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Google Gripe Google is refunding agencies for “billing discrepancies,” aka ads that ran in places where they weren’t supposed to, Ad Age reports. The refunds (which Google refers to as credits) closely follow the viral Adalytics report alleging that YouTube placed TrueView ad […]

Among streaming ad providers, there is a temptation to make streaming ad ROI look better than it really is (and definitely better than linear).

Agencies are busy gearing up to buy client campaigns on alt currency this upfront season. But the transition to alt currency is a work in progress, and the industry isn’t dumping Nielsen entirely.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tubi Or Not Tubi Fox-owned Tubi recently made its first ping on Nielsen’s radar with 1% of US TV viewership – just in time for Tubi’s first-ever advertiser conference ahead of upfront season on Thursday, where it showcased glitzy new data partnerships. And […]

Warner Bros. Discovery decides to transact media with VideoAmp and Comscore currencies during its upfront this year.

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. Ad Nauseam Launching an advertising business is almost always trickier than it might seem on the surface. Beyond the mechanics of ad serving, verification and measurement, introducing ads complicates a business model in unexpected ways.  Take Netflix, which launched ads, like, a minute […]

On Tuesday, VideoAmp announced its acquisition of Elsy, an analytics platform founded in 2015 that helps advertisers optimize their media investments tied to business outcomes. The idea is to address VideoAmp clients’ biggest campaign planning hurdles: Automation and forecasting business outcomes.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Royal Rumble Of Ratings The TV analytics company EDO, co-founded by Edward Norton, raised $80 million at a $200 million valuation.  The actor’s involvement stemmed from Norton’s experience with streaming production, since there are no obvious benchmarks like box office or DVD […]

TV measurement is reaching an inflection point. But with all the saturation, there’s at least one thing most competing measurement providers can agree on: the importance of independent accreditation.

On Thursday, Comcast announced it’s licensing its first-party data to VideoAmp. New types of inventory have become more widely available, but measurement hasn’t kept up, said Claudio Marcus, VP of strategy at Comcast Advertising. But the goal is still all about optionality. In order to foster innovation, competition and choice, Comcast will be taking on other partners.

What happens when the CEOs of Nielsen, Comscore and VideoAmp walk into a bar? … is nearly a joke you could have told on Tuesday. That’s when David Kenny, Nielsen’s CEO; Bill Livek, chief exec at Comscore; and VideoAmp CEO Ross McCray took to the stage at the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting to talk measurement […]

Nielsen has always “had a challenge with counting appropriately,” says Andrea Zapata, head of research, data and insights at WarnerMedia Ad Sales. That’s why WarnerMedia is going big on alternatives: VideoAmp, iSpot and Comscore.

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2021 was a year of reckoning for TV measurement. On AdExchanger Talks, we spoke with three of the most important names in the space about these tectonic shifts: the CEOs of Nielsen, VideoAmp and Comscore. Here are the highlights.

When VideoAmp CEO and Founder Ross McCray first started reaching out to investors around seven years ago about his new company, they were less than impressed. “People hated the space,” McCray says on this week’s episode of AdExchanger Talks. “I would go and pitch our solution about the future and you’d have VCs saying … […]

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 […]

“On TV & Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is by AdExchanger Sr. Editor James Hercher. It wasn’t so long ago that around one-fifth or more of the entire adult-age population of America would simultaneously sit down and watch a TV show at the same time. […]