Ad measurement is becoming more challenging due to signal loss. But there was never such a thing as perfect measurement, says Jen Faraci, chief data officer at Publicis-owned Digitas North America.
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Shop ’Til You Drop Instagram will shut down the ability to tag items and direct people to a sale during a livestream, TechCrunch reports. The feature had been available since 2020 and was part of Meta’s overall push into more direct payments after […]
Advertisers often talk about supporting Black- and minority-owned media companies. It’s Mark Prince’s job to help them turn those pledges into action. As SVP and head of economic empowerment at Dentsu Media, he pushes brands to consistently diversify their media mix – and move away from one-off investments.
On Wednesday, iSpot.tv announced a $325 million investment from Goldman Sachs – a hefty chunk of change considering the company had previously raised a total of $58 million since it was founded in 2012. The company has a roadmap to enhance its TV measurement currency offerings (as well as attribution capabilities) with the new influx of funding.
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 […]
NBCUniversal highlighted three streaming-oriented companies it is considering – Conviva, Dumbstruck and Truthset – to create a framework for alternative currencies as it prepares to move away from legacy TV ratings giant Nielsen as the industry’s single currency provider. Kelly Abcarian, NBCU’s EVP of ad measurement and impact, again called for “measurement independence” and for […]
Nielsen is developing an identity resolution solution to help advertisers measure audiences across platforms after third-party cookies and other mainstay identifiers go ta-ta. “We’ve been working aggressively on our cross-platform journey for the last couple of years,” said Mainak Mazumdar, Nielsen’s chief data officer. “But we accelerated this when we started to see what was […]
#TFW you know tons of people are engaging with your video content on social media, but you have no way to measure deduplicated reach and minutes watched per unique viewer across platforms. On Tuesday, social video analytics platform Tubular Labs released an audience ratings product that helps publishers validate their digital video audiences using a […]
Imagine a 1950s-era housewife hanging a crisp white sheet on a clothesline in her suburban backyard complete with picket fence as a gentle breeze blows. “We recognize that this woman doesn’t exist anymore, the happy woman with the billowing sheet,” said Erika Lamoreaux, associate director of digital media at The Clorox Company, speaking at the […]
Television has the GRP. Mobile deserves the same. That’s the thinking at comScore. Starting Wednesday, the measurement company will make mobile ad reporting for apps and mobile web generally available within its validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) product. ComScore had done custom delivery of mobile measurement in the past on a client-by-client basis. That same data […]
