Fox, NBCUniversal, Paramount, TelevisaUnivision & Warner Bros Discovery Put More Pressure On Nielsen, Teaming With VAB And OpenAP
deadline.comMedia ratings collective OpenAP, along with national programmers Fox, NBCUniversal, Paramount, TelevisaUnivision, and Warner Bros.
Discovery and the Video Advertising Bureau have formed a joint committee to push alternatives to Nielsen numbers. In an announcement, the committee said the goal is “to enable multiple currencies with the primary focus of creating a measurement certification process to establish the suitability of emerging cross-platform measurement solutions in advance of the 2024 upfront.” The new body said it has already begun to utilize the collective efforts and progress being made across its members to develop measurement certification standards, which will be formalized and officially announced on March 1.
On April 25, it will host an event to share progress being made toward accelerating the multi-currency future and upfront readiness of measurement partners.
In a joint statement by CEOs Jeff Shell, Bob Bakish, Wade Davis and David Zaslav said their collaboration will move things forward. “The sustainability of the premium video advertising model depends on an ecosystem for measurement that is transparent, independent, inclusive, and accurately reflects the way all people consume premium video content today – across multiple screens, connections, and devices,” they said. “By coming together to establish this JIC, we can collaborate and accelerate the efforts to implement a new multi-currency future that fosters more competition, inclusivity and innovation and will ultimately better serve advertisers, agencies and consumers.” The initiative follows a particularly rancorous couple of years in the long-fraught TV measurement trenches, as Nielsen has found itself under increasing scrutiny by networks
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