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  • Nielsen To Overhaul Its Currency; Super Bowl Advertisers Try To Predict The Future

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Give It The Ol’ Rip And Replace Nielsen recently updated its panel-based currency to include data from smart TVs and set-top boxes – but an even bigger change is on the horizon. According to The Wall Street Journal, Nielsen will completely replace its TV […]

  • Not So Fast-Twitch: Debunking Ad Tech’s Buzziest Promise To TV Advertisers

    “On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by Brian Ejsmont, VP of product management at VideoAmp. Recently, there’s been a lot of industry chatter from companies claiming they can reduce the latency of cross-channel reporting across attribution use cases, AKA “fast-twitch” reporting, enabling […]

  • Drive More Informed Media Planning With Linear TV Attribution

    This article is sponsored by the New York Interconnect. Attribution has long been the holy grail for TV advertising. Yet even without it, TV’s ability to reach audiences at scale and drive brand awareness has solidified it as one of the most powerful channels for advertisers. Advertising budgets continue to reinforce this value. In fact, […]

  • FCC Wobbles On Cable Box Bust-up, In Nod To MVPDs

    The FCC may be softening its stance around its highly contested proposal to let all set-top boxes freely access cable content. Set-top box and OTT device manufacturers love the idea because they’d be able to tap into all sorts of heavily gated cable content. Multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) don’t, since it would undermine their […]

  • ANA Files Comments Opposing FCC’s Proposed Set-Top Box Rules

    The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Monday that formalized its opposition to the FCC’s proposed set-top box rules. Under the proposed rules, companies such as Google and TiVo who manufacture their own set-top boxes could access content from multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) without having to […]

  • Simulmedia Bringing Online's Technology-Driven Optimization To Television Says CEO Dave Morgan

    Dave Morgan is CEO of Simulmedia, a television marketing company that optimizes the effectiveness of “on-air” program promotion. AdExchanger.com: Have you tired of the online ad business, where you’ve already had success (Tacoda, Real Media)? Confess – don’t you miss banner ads? What prompted you to start Simulmedia? DM: I am not tired of the […]