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Media Rating Council

iSpot earns MRC accreditation

iSpot, the TV measurement company, has earned its first Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation for the ability to accurately identify, verify and track national TV ad occurrences across 178 linear and broadcast networks. iSpot first introduced its real-time system for TV ad cataloguing in 2012, and has provided complete ad-level transparency to brands, agencies and […]

September 26, 2023

Comscore, NBCUniversal ad partnership

Comscore, a partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media, has announced a partnership with NBCUniversal, in which NBCUniversal will be, for the first time, guaranteeing all local ad buys on Comscore measurement. The expanded partnership will support the transactional currency local advertisers will negotiate for inventory with NBCUniversal across its 31 local markets, plus 42 NBCU- […]

May 19, 2023

Nielsen receives MRC accreditation

Nielsen has met the Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation standards for its National TV Audience Measurement service, once again becoming the only TV audience measurement provider in the US to be accredited by the MRC. Following the November 2022 audit of Nielsen’s National TV Audience Measurement service, the MRC engaged independent auditors to review Nielsen’s progress against […]

April 18, 2023

DoubleVerify earns MRC accreditation

Digital media measurement, data and analytics software platform DoubleVerify (DV) has received Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation for its DV Authentic Attention metrics, DV’s attention-based analytics and performance solution. “Earning MRC accreditation for DV Authentic Attention, in an environment where ad dollars are increasingly scrutinised for accountability, advances our commitment to develop independent media quality […]

January 4, 2023