Former GroupM and Comscore executives --
Michael Bologna
and Joanna Drews -- are starting a media metrics company, HyphaMetrics, using a proprietary panel of 5,000 homes.The company, which has a $2 million
early-round investment, looks to track all TV screens and devices into a single-source data stream for licensing to TV networks, media agencies, digital media platforms, multichannel video programming
distributors (MVPDs), and other research companies.
HyphaMetrics says it will be the first to provide “a suite of data streams providing media viewing behavior figures at
their most granular level that are both neutral and autonomous.”
Bologna had been the long-time president of GroupM’s Modi Media, its addressable TV unit. More
recently, was president of one2one Media (which became part of Cadent). He will have the title of president and chief revenue officer of HyphaMetrics.
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Joanna Drews, co-founder and
chief executive officer of HyphaMetrics, had been director of product management and emerging assets at Comscore. Drew is also the measurement working group co-chair for AdLedger and is on the client
advisory board for Captify.
HyphaMetrics says it will provide data at the individual household level -- from linear television, to streaming devices and apps to mobile web usage
to gaming environments.
The company will focus on three main products:
ClearviewMetrics will offer viewing data across every network, program, advertisement,
product placement, streaming app, gaming environment for all devices in the household of panel of 5,000 homes, comprising more than 15,000 devices. This product will launch in the second quarter of
2021.
ContentMetrics, available now, will look at time spent across each platform on TV sets in real time, including who is watching what content and in what format (live,
time-shifted, or streaming) within a TV household.
MobileMetrics, also available now, will determine unique media occurrences across mobile media platforms -- time spent in apps,
simultaneous app usage, and multitasking metrics, and other data points.
Other executives at the company will include Gerardo López Zamudio, co-founder and chief technical
officer. He was formerly chief information officer at credit ratings agency HR Ratings de México and the TV audience measurement agency HR Ratings Media.
Chuck Shuttles
will be chief panel officer. Previously he had been vice president of panel science at Comscore and senior vice president of panel operations for Symphony Advanced Media.