comScore Antes 'Table Stakes,' Provides Viewability Data Free

In a bid to become the industry’s standard for measuring the viewability of online display, video and mobile ad inventory, comScore is offering its data free to anyone who wants it. The data will be available by the end of June via a new “self-serve” interface via comscore.com.

“We’re eliminating the friction around viewability,” comScore CEO Gian Fulgoni explained during a briefing with MediaPost on the eve of this morning’s announcement. Fulgoni asserts that the industry has become too consumed by debates surrounding viewability and that it has essentially “become a surrogate for effectiveness,” but that he believes it should just be “table stakes.”

Toward that end, he says, comScore is giving its viewability measurement data away to any user as a way to move stakeholders up the chain to higher-order measurements of effectiveness, such as “time in-view,” or the percentage of impressions that are viewable, or even more advanced measures such as brand lift, awareness, etc., which comScore will continue to sell.

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Fulgoni acknowledged that the free offer is intended to get customers using comScore data so that the company can upsell them paid data.

The move should help marginalize -- or at the very least, put market share pressure on -- comScore’s chief viewability measurement rivals, including Media Rating Council accredited products from Integral Ad Science, Double Verify and Moat, the latter of which was acquired by Oracle for $850 million last week.

Fulgoni said comScore’s free viewability data plan has been in the works for “months,” and that it was not prompted by any specific moves by its competitors.
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  1. Dan Mauch from AerServ, April 26, 2017 at 11:08 a.m.

    This is great for in-browser inventory but how will comScore tackle measurement for in-app inventory?  Curious to see of they have a solution like their competitors.

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