Like its national TV ratings, Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings hasn’t had accreditation from the industry's Media Rating Council since last year, though executives have expressed confidence in restoring accreditation as soon as this year. Nielsen One is expected to be fully operational by later this year, after which an MRC application is likely. Other TV measurement services, including from Comscore and iSpot.tv, are seeking accreditation too. And Comscore earlier this week agreed with the MRC to put its Media Metrix desktop measurement on hiatus as it works through methodology changes required by Google’s pending elimination of cookies from Chrome.
“As a movie and television streaming service with 80% of our viewers watching on TV screens, we’re excited about the proposed integration of Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings measurement across our device partners,” said Mark Rotblat, chief revenue officer of Tubi, in the statement. The enhanced device coverage will provide “comprehensive and stable currency-grade measurement, allowing our advertisers to transact on audiences in a way that is apples-to-apples with traditional TV,” he said.
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Tubi said the proposed Nielsen DAR integration on Tubi will let brands leverage deeper contextual insights, align brand objectives with its 40,000 movie and TV titles and better understand audience demographics and interest-based attributes.
