Nielsen is attempting to take care of its standing as TV measurement’s foreign money.

Over the summer season, Nielsen launched its 4-Display screen Advert Deduplication software to assist patrons cut back repeat impressions on YouTube throughout linear TV, related TV (CTV), desktop and cellular.

Yesterday, Roku grew to become the second main CTV writer to undertake Nielsen’s new advert deduplication software for measuring its advertisements throughout linear and streaming video stock, following YouTube this summer season.

“With continued deal with comparability throughout screens [ahead] of launching Nielsen ONE, platforms can measure streaming and linear programming with the identical metrics and methodology,” Kim Gilberti, SVP of product administration at Nielsen, informed AdExchanger.

4-Display screen Advert Deduplication provides a fourth display screen, CTV, to the screens entrepreneurs can purchase deduplicated audiences towards with Nielsen.

“For the primary time, we’ll be capable to assist advertisers perceive the best way to optimize the totality of their media buys throughout screens,” stated Asaf Davidov, Roku’s head of measurement.

The software is obtainable by means of Nielsen’s Complete Advert Rankings (TAR) product, the info set that would be the basis of Nielsen’s cross-platform measurement platform, Nielsen ONE, which is at present in alpha.

Nielsen’s new advert deduplication software can be obtainable throughout Nielsen ONE publishers (together with Roku) when the platform launches in December 2022.

However within the meantime, Nielsen hopes that high quality measurement on Roku and YouTube may help show its viability to publishers and advertisers being courted by alternate foreign money suppliers and upstarts.

Duped … or deduped?

Nielsen must show it could dedupe audiences throughout linear and streaming – and rapidly – if it hopes to face an opportunity within the TV measurement race.

YouTube and Roku make sense as beginning factors for Nielsen’s new measurement software as a result of each platforms have a robust market foothold in each reside content material and streaming, the principle channel measurement distinction the brand new software means to make.

Roku, for one, has been utilizing Nielsen’s Digital Advert Rankings (DAR) since 2016 (and purchased its ACR information biz final 12 months). However Roku wasn’t in a position to dedupe streaming from audiences throughout cellular, desktop and linear TV with Nielsen integrations till utilizing its new advert deduping software.

Any app writer that places its media stock on Roku units, along with their advertisers, may have entry to Nielsen’s 4-Display screen Advert Deduplication software by means of Roku’s OneView DSP.

Shared id

Nielsen’s new deduping software additionally signifies a shift from household-level to person-level measurement for the rankings titan.

Nielsen’s lack of accreditation from the Media Score Council for its native and nationwide TV rankings final 12 months spurned an industry-wide shift towards id based mostly on information. That’s why alternate measurement suppliers are gaining floor with large information units designed to rely advert exposures quite than program schedules for extra constant viewers measurement regardless of how content material is delivered.

“Nielsen’s aspiration is to create one foreign money throughout all screens by equivalizing id information,” Davidov stated. “In the end, that’s going to turn into an impression-based metric.”

The problem is connecting linear TV to advertisers’ digital buys, that are transacted and measured by means of an advert server. However Nielsen is ready to make this connection by creating proxies for linear impressions based mostly on calibrations between panel information and co-viewing calculations.

However in the end, an impression-based mannequin can be what unifies measurement, Davidov stated.

Competitors

The romance between Roku and Nielsen goes effectively up to now, however Roku says it’s nonetheless protecting its choices open.

Patrons are demanding optionality and alternate suppliers, Davidov stated. Roku is in talks with the demand facet about which distributors they like for particular sorts of measurement.

Comscore, he added, has been “cornering the market” on native TV measurement, placing it on Roku’s radar for foreign money suppliers.

“We’re excited to be diversifying our measurement slate,” he added. “We’re speaking to many suppliers, and making important headway.”