measurement

ORLANDO, FL — The combination of media and commerce promises to eliminate the linear consumer journey and enable marketers to achieve objectives from awareness to conversion within single video experiences. “The convergence of media and commerce is no longer evolving — they have converged to the point where they are one and the same. Commerce […]

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA – For all the talk about artificial intelligence impact on creativity, the data use cases are quickly coming into view among various parts of the ad industry. For example, the ability to autonomously generate audience segments in real time rather, than relying on predefined demographic or behavioral categories, could fundamentally change […]

While marketers looking to achieve both branding and performance goals have been flocking to Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (aka “FAST”) channels the last several years. The problem is that FAST lacks adequate measurement and targeting infrastructure. And that’s creating gaps that walled gardens currently cannot fill for content distributors. “[FAST] is underserved right now from […]

Gaming continues to be underrepresented in media investment despite offering measurable engagement opportunities and value exchange capabilities that other channels cannot match, largely due to marketer unfamiliarity with the environment. “I think gaming could be classified as a sleeper channel or a channel that’s underrepresented in terms of where media investment goes, I think largely […]

AMENIA, NY — Advertisers continue to rely on general metrics that may offer the value of industry-wide standardized comparisons across media channels, but provide little actionable insight while the identity resolution landscape rapidly shifts toward first-party data strategies and privacy-safe collaboration environments. “I definitely still see some advertisers focusing on those ‘vanity metrics,’ which are […]

NEW YORK, NY — Getting clarity on advertisers’ return on investment remains the main challenge in media measurement, even as speed and precision become increasingly important in an environment where global advertising spend approaches $1 trillion with 75% allocated to digital channels, noted Cara Pratt, president of Retail & Media at Circana. “If marketers aren’t […]

CANNES – With a network of 130 million customer connections across the U.S., T-Mobile Advertising Solutions operates from a uniquely scaled vantage point, one that its data chief calls a “privileged position” that demands serious responsibility. “We’re a third of the country,” Andrea Zapata, VP of Advertising Data, Measurement, and Partnerships at T-Mobile Advertising Solutions, […]

CANNES – Strolling down the Croisette a few weeks ago, Attain Co-founder and CEO Brian Mandelbaum received one overwhelming message: outcomes are everything.  For the head of the consumer transaction data analytics company head, that represents a fundamental shift from just a year ago. “I’ve been walking around Cannes for the past five days, and […]

Is there anything getting more attention than attention metrics in conversations among advertisers, agencies and media companies during the ongoing NewFronts/Upfronts season? For Neala Brown, SVP for Strategy & Operations at Teads, it’s about time. And there’s still so much to talk about. After years of research and development, attention metrics are evolving from an […]

For many advertising and media industry veterans, gaming still feels new, despite its steady rise over the last two decades. In part, that’s due to the vast differences between it and more traditional media. But as Samantha Lim, SVP, Gaming Strategy & Innovation, Publicis Media, says homing in on the values that gaming offers to […]

Too often, media buyers see potential customers as ‘users’ or targets.’ They forget that advertisers are in the business of telling stories to real people. That’s the assessment of Michael Piner EVP, Advanced Advertising Mediahub. “The idea here is, that we’re trying to get to humans. Not screens, not platforms. Humans,” he told Beet.TV. “Their […]

Measurement in an omni-channel media world is increasingly complex with the changes in  cookies, mobile identifiers and new privacy regulation.   But what is he personal, unbiased impact of advertising?  For GroupM’s Mindshare, it’s about measuring “empathy” as registered by biometric feed back. It’s called the NeuroLab and it’s the the largest longitudinal panel in the […]

FORT LAUDERDALE — Audience measurement outfit Nielsen is gearing up to measure linear and digital audiences in a new way, that recognizes a distinction between viewers of content and viewers of ads. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Nielsen planning and precision SVP Eric Solomon says the company’s Total Audience suite – which already includes the cross-platform […]

It’s a world in which more data can be measured than ever before – and marketers are on the cusp of being able to thread them all together. But, just because they can’t quite yet, they shouldn’t be hard on themselves. That was the view of panelists convened at an industry discussion. “There are too many areas that […]

If you thought mobile advertising was hard to measure, Nielsen reckons over-the-top TV and video services is much harder – so it aims to integrate its ad measurement systems with box makers at the system level. “Over-the-top is a really challenging space,” Nielsen product leadership SVP David Wong tells Beet.TV in this video interview. “A year or […]

Media measurement firm Nielsen and programmatic ad tech outfit eXelate had already worked together for five years before the former’s acquisition of the latter this March. Now they are working on the same journey. “We act as their data management backbone, taking a lot of their offline data and activating it in the programmatic world,” eXelate […]

Quantcast is known for helping brands measure their website performance. Now it is also trying to offer “Big Data” services to clients. “We see consumers in the US around 800 to 900 times a month – we process around 30 petabytes of data every day,” according to company SVP Adrian D’Souza. “We’re able to predict very well what […]

Netflix may not want to open up its audience ratings to industry onlookers – but that doesn’t mean measurement houses aren’t trying to put some numbers on the video behemoth’s growth regardless. “We are actually going to be able to have measurement for content that’s playing on Netflix because we have the audio tags – […]

FORT LAUDERDALE — The coming digitzation of TV may seem set to pave the way for measuring audiences in a digital manner used to internet media houses – but Nielsen is stating its case for a panel-based approach it seems set to launch later this year. “We’re dedicated to having a solution to smart TVs […]

The consortium of video ad tech companies which set out to harmonize measurement standards using open-source code is celebrating its first anniversary having grown its membership six-fold, says one of the founding members. OpenVV launched a year ago under the auspice of TubeMogul, Brightroll, Innovid, LiveRail and SpotXchange to open-source software for measuring true video viewability, […]