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Nielsen, Roku ad alliance

Nielsen and Roku have announced a strategic alliance that that they say will help shape the future of media and TV measurement in a streaming-first market. Roku has entered into an agreement to acquire Nielsen’s Advanced Video Advertising (AVA) business, which includes Nielsen’s video automatic content recognition (ACR) and dynamic ad insertion (DAI) technologies. The […]

March 2, 2021

Nielsen rolls out ID resolution system

Nielsen has announced a new approach that moves away from third-party cookies to privacy-centric, people-based identifiers for Attribution. The company says that thus new technique ensures advertisers and publishers are able to understand the entire consumer journey across platforms, better optimise their spend and prove the impact of advertising. To combat the issue of data […]

February 19, 2021

Nielsen launches Gracenote Inclusion Analytics

Information, data and market measurement firm Nielsen is launching Gracenote Inclusion Analytics, which it says will deliver unprecedented visibility into the gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation of talent appearing in TV programming and the audiences watching it. The new solution empowers content creators, owners, distributors and advertisers with much-needed data around on-screen diversity and […]

February 17, 2021

Nielsen launches PVoD movie measurement

Nielsen is launching its Theatrical Video On-Demand measurement service as a way to capture viewing to movie releases that are directly available to consumers to rent or purchase on demand through streaming/MVPD platforms. The evolution of theatrical distribution, especially during the pandemic, has introduced a new opportunity for both consumers and content owners by delivering […]

January 14, 2021

Nielsen unveils Nielsen ONE solution

Nielsen has announced  plans to launch a single, cross-media solution to drive more comparable and comprehensive metrics across platforms.  Nielsen’s transformative cross-media solution, called Nielsen ONE, aims to evolve the current metrics that underpin the video advertising ecosystem using a phased approach. The company plans to launch its single measurement solution beginning in Q4 2022 […]

December 8, 2020

Nielsen ID resolution to underpin audience measurement

Information, data and market measurement firm Nielsen says its new ID resolution system will underpin its audience and outcomes measurement products in a cookie-less world to support cross-media, including digital. Consistent with its mission of providing trusted and independent measurement, Nielsen will continue to deliver holistic, people-based measurement across all platforms and publishers and deduplicate […]

November 20, 2020

Data: Millions of Americans streamed election news for free

Following the 2020 US presidential elections, streaming device and platform specialist Roku has released new data detailing the significant growth in consumption of election-related news via streaming on the Roku platform. The analysis coincides with newly-released data from a nationwide survey of more than 2,000 US adults, conducted by The Harris Poll for Roku prior […]

November 19, 2020

Vizio taps Nielsen to measure advanced TV campaigns

Vizio Ads, the direct-to-device advertising business for Vizio, the US-based TV brand, has announced that it will use Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings to help advertisers better measure and optimise digital audience metrics across Vizio SmartCast inventory on Vizio connected TVs (CTV). This follows the recent announcement that Nielsen will measure addressable campaigns on Vizio that […]

November 18, 2020

Nielsen: CNN wins election week

US viewers watched CNN in record-breaking numbers during election week as news networks topped primetime and total day charts, says Nielsen. CNN drew a network record 6.1 million viewers in primetime during the week to top all networks. Fox News and MSNBC also drew big numbers for the week, averaging 5.9 million and 4.7 million […]

November 12, 2020

Nielsen adds addressable measurement

Measurement and data analytics company Nielsen is adding addressable measurement to its National TV currency. Through strategic data integrations, Nielsen will add ~55 million devices across smart TVs and set-top boxes to help scale addressable TV. Nielsen’s addressable measurement will include AT&T’s DirecTV, DISH, Nielsen Advanced Video Advertising and addressable campaigns on VIZIO that utilise […]

November 12, 2020