Retail brands are moving aggressively toward digital channels, while tech and finance firms are doubling down on performance marketing.
A Nielsen marketing survey finds 42.4% of ad-supported viewing time is now on streaming platforms, with ad spend estimated to increase 25% this year to over $20 billion.
The study is expected to presume the marketplace will consolidate from a multitude of contenders to two recognized ad "currencies," which is consistent with the history of the ad industry.
YouTube had a leading 21% share of streaming minutes in 2024. Compared to just FAST platforms, YouTube is far ahead in streaming minutes, followed by Tubi with a 4% share and Roku with 3%.
Former Dentsu, Kantar, and Nielsen executives who now work at a startup focused on MMM believe they have developed a way to enable SMBs to rethink media metrics that lead to better performance.
The broader view shows 77% using some digital media access throughout the day - from many activities during particular moments of the day, increasingly including wagering sites.
If 2024 was the "Year Of Attention Metrics," it's ending with a bang, including news this morning that Nielsen is partnering with Realeyes.
Streaming and media players have no choice but to continue to sell their premium library content to Netflix to offset their own poor returns in streaming.
Warner Bros. Discovery has struck a multiyear "sub-licensing" agreement with ESPN to secure some early-round games in the new expanded College Football Playoff series. WBD's TNT will get two
first-round games starting this season and an additional two quarterfinal games in 2026 and 2028, which can be added to WBD's streaming Max platform.
Traditional digital channels will outpace connected television and streaming going into the 2024 upfronts and NewFronts.
Paramount+ pulled in an estimated 3.4 million in new sign-ups for its streaming service from its Super Bowl promotion. Peacock got 3.0 million from promo/ad efforts around an AFC Wild Card Game.
Boosted by strong interest in blockbuster films, ABC's "Academy Awards" delivered 19.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
AMC will have a rough road into 2024, according to analysts. Following a Q3 decline of 18% in ad revenue to $147 million, UBS Research estimates AMC will tumble 20% to $630 million for full-year 2023.
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Publicis Media helped develop the new service and is working on integrating it into its planning and buying systems.
Rao, who has served as CEO of Nielsen's Audience Measurement business since 2023, is a 23-year veteran of Nielsen, beginning as director of client consulting for BASES, shortly after Nielsen acquired
it in 1998.
As chief data officer of Nielsen-owned NCSolutions, Wood developed new ways to use data for incremental measurement and targeting. Wood will oversee data science at iSpot for TV and
video-measurement products at iSpot.
Creatives with disabilities are providing brands with an authentic way to connect with an audience that's actively seeking inclusivity, Nielsen said.
There are regional differences in opinion, with marketers in North America most likely to say their CTV media spending is effective.
The CIMM-sponsored study, conducted by HyphaMetrics, found passive methods detected 78% of TV minutes viewed vs. only 22% for active methods.
A study released last week found that Black creators on TikTok, YouTube and Twitter drew higher online followings than their non-Black peers.
The alt currency companies seeking JIC certification use what some researchers might refer to as "convenience samples," because their data is conveniently available.
Amid uncertainties about economic growth, some marketers expected to boost budgets by 50% or more.
The answer depends on what you believe the role of the MRC actually is. Or at least, what it's supposed to be.
Live, linear TV continues to be challenged by viewership declines -- down between 14% and 20% per month, according to MoffettNathanson Research. Cable TV networks have seen significant viewership
declines -- down 18% to 21% for each month -- using the Nielsen C3 ratings metric. These declines have steepened compared to earlier in 2022, where there were 13% to 17% declines for the first three
months.
As Fox Advertising Sales' first EVP, chief ad research and analytics officer, Mazumdar will oversee sports, entertainment, news and streaming areas for Fox and bild data- and audience-based sales
strategy which will "holistically link the platforms, while maintaining each platform's unique brand." Mazumdar will report to Marianne Gambelli, ad sales president of Fox Corp.
Netflix last year carried 13 of the 15 most-viewed original series among streaming platforms.
Marketers can't afford to wait to get Amazon and retail media right. Here are three steps they need to take now.
This most likely is the most anticlimactic Agency of The Year award profile I will ever write. That's because I called GroupM as our probable holding company-level entity of the year at the mid-year
mark back in July, based on what it had already accomplished by that point. I added that it was GroupM's to lose, and challenged its peers to step up and prove me wrong.
NBCU saw an opportunity for an inflection point in 2022 and executed what is probably the best sell-side research and marketing effort to restructure the TV ad marketplace since Turner's Media at the
Millennium shifted billions of dollars from broadcast to cable.
The TelevisaUnivision agreement starts in Jan. 2023, and includes Nielsen Marketing Cloud and Gracenote's Advanced Discovery suite. It offers measurement and advanced planning across
TelevisaUnivision's national, digital, local and audio affiliates as well as its streaming service, ViX.