Nielsen Research for Facebook Shows It Now Edges TV in Reaching Millennials, Hispanics
Advertising Age Magazine says the “wide-ranging study using Nielsen’s Homescan panel of consumers and audience-measurement tools shows buying Facebook alone now reaches more of each group than running ads on the 10 most watched TV networks combined…” Details here. […]
Facebook to Sell 100% In-View Ads, Let Brands Fact-Check Video Ad Views
From AdAge.com, but there is a problem: “The lack of a time limit could water down the option’s value to advertisers”…details here […]
PANDORA Believes in TV
From Kurt Hanson’s RAIN News: “With no fanfare or PR announcement behind it, leading online radio service Pandora has apparently launched a major TV spot schedule…details here. […]
PANDORA Opens 37th Local US Sales Office
How big is PANDORA getting? From Tom Taylor NOW: Pandora opens a highly-visible sales office in downtown Minneapolis. It’s leasing a 5,000-square foot space in “the city’s most recognizable office tower, the IDS Center,” says the Star-Tribune. The paper also has the local color, about what started out as a “small local sales team” in the Twin […]
Is TV Going the Way of Radio? Record Subscriber Losses.
Ad Age Magazine says, “Cord-Cutting Ramps Up as Pay TV Sees Record Subscriber Losses. Services Lose 625,000 in Subscribers During Biggest-Ever Quarterly Drop.” This is another sign of the times as people go Internet and mobile to get the content they want the way they want it. Details here. […]
AdAge says Yahoo to Let Brands Fact-Check Its Viewability, Fraud Numbers
Ad Age magazine reports: “The move to third-party verification brings more transparency to the issues of ad viewability and ad fraud. By addressing advertisers’ concerns over whether real people — as opposed to non-human bots created to mimic a site visit in order to juice traffic stats and ad revenue — are actually seeing their […]
What a YouTube Celeb Pulls In
This is an amazing amount of cash being earned! Could this be a better way to reach consumers than traditional media like radio or TV? Ad Age Magazine tells the story here. […]
How Much Longer Will Terrestrial Radio Be Around?
Record high stream listening in March led by Pandora and Spotify. More and more, listeners are grabbling what they want, when they want, where they want, and how they want…as opposed to be controlled by mass radio feeding them. Details here. […]
Update to Online Streaming Measurement
4/10/15: RAIN News Reports additional details: “Triton Digital has received certification for inclusion of Nielsen audience measurement technology in Triton streaming audio players, the company announced this afternoon. This development enables Nielsen to measure online streaming metrics of its broadcast clients through Triton’s streaming suite on desktop, Android, and iOS. It is the fourth time […]
Big News for Online Ratings Measurement
4/10/15 – From Inside Radio, it’s reported that “Triton and Nielsen Join Digital Hands. Triton Digital may compete with Nielsen on the audience measurement front, but as a streaming services vendor to broadcasters it will make it easier for stations to be measured by its rival. Triton confirms it will integrate Nielsen software into its audio […]