OpenAP ‘Good News For Us’ Says Nielsen’s Hasker

If you thought broadcasters’ newfangled ways of selling TV ads using advanced audience-buying tools in 2017 will freeze traditional TV measurers out in the cold, think again. Fox, Turner and Viacom teamed to co-found OpenAP, a new consortium to agree on commonality in the way granular audience-describing datasets are described and made available. To many, these new techniques may […]

 
 

Mobile Ratings Next for Nielsen

The TV ratings giant is prepping to add mobile ratings to its product mix. The goal for Nielsen? To weave mobile into TV ratings in time for the fall season, said Steve Hasker, President of Nielsen Global Products, in an interview with Beet.TV this spring. The addition of mobile to the TV ratings set can […]

 
 

TV Networks Well Placed Despite Multi-Platform Boom: Nielsen’s Hasker

CANNES, France — How will the relationship between media agencies, brands and TV networks evolve as underlying media and marketing platforms continue to be disrupted? The incumbent TV industry remains in a strong position, a Beet.TV panel heard. “There’s been a sea-change in the attitudes but, more importantly, the confidence of the broadcast and major […]

 
 

Nielsen Product President Hasker: We are Moving “Well Beyond the GRP”

CANNES, France — Nielsen global product leadership president Steve Hasker has put up a spirited defense of his media audience research provider and one of its core measurement tools. “A lot of people will talk about the GRP (Gross Rating Point) being dead,” he tells  moderator Terence Kawaja at this Beet.TV leadership summit. “We have never argued […]

 
 

Nielsen’s Hasker: Mobile Measurement Is The Future Of Our Business

Nielsen’s mobile video future starts this coming October. That is when the measurement firm will start quantifying mobile TV viewership following the recent announcement of the addition, says the company’s global product leadership president. Nielsen will fold mobile viewership in to its C3 TV ratings system in the fall. Before that, it will give its Online Campaign […]

 
 

Nielsen’s Mobile Video Measurement Coming This Summer

Nielsen will launch a new system for advertisers to measure the audience for mobile content and video properties this coming summer. “It’s all about mobile – it’s explosive,” the company’s global product leadership president Steve Hasker tells Beet.TV. “We have developed and are now testing the first industrial-strength robust measurement system for video and other types […]