Nielsen now has a schedule to release part of its Total Audience measurement system -- which is intended to be ready for next year’s TV upfront advertising marketplace.
Nielsen’s Total
Content Ratings -- a piece of a Total Audience system, which also include Total Ad Ratings metric -- will be available to all Nielsen clients on March 1, 2017.
The Total Audience system looks
to merge all traditional TV premium TV-video content and advertising data with that on digital media platforms.
Total Content Ratings consist of all TV program ratings and digital content
ratings through 35 days; Total Ad Ratings will combine Nielsen’s current C3 and C7 TV ratings and digital ad ratings through 35 days. Nielsen did not disclose a schedule for Total Ad
Ratings.
Nielsen has been slowly releasing some data to content/publishing owners for a few months now. Currently, “dozens of TV and digital media brands are enabled with components of
Total Audience measurement.”
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Starting August 1 of this year, Total Content Ratings were available to all participating publishers, who also had the ability to see other competing
publishers' data.
In the fourth quarter of this year, Nielsen will begin to make select data available to media agencies and the press. Then on January 1, 2017, the Total Content Ratings will
become fully available to media agencies and publishers -- although only select data will be made available to the press.
By March 1, 2017, the full Total Content Ratings will be available to
all Nielsen clients.