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Google To Back Branding Measurement Standards With “Brand Activate”

Citing the conventional wisdom that a lack of branding impact metrics is hindering ad dollars from moving online, Google today unveiled an initiative it’s calling “Brand Activate,” which involves the adoption of branding-oriented metrics and the roll-out of tools to measure them across its product portfolio. The initiative gives a strong push to industry-wide standards […]

Pamela Parker on April 18, 2012 at 10:15 am | Reading time: 3 minutes

Sanaz Ahari, the Senior Product Manager for Brand Activate

Citing the conventional wisdom that a lack of branding impact metrics is hindering ad dollars from moving online, Google today unveiled an initiative it’s calling “Brand Activate,” which involves the adoption of branding-oriented metrics and the roll-out of tools to measure them across its product portfolio.

The initiative gives a strong push to industry-wide standards proposed by the Making Measurement Make Sense coalition, which includes the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). Additionally, Google is seeking the approval of the Media Rating Council (MRC) in the accreditation of its measurement methodology.

Active View

Google is starting with two metrics it says will be available to its advertisers in the coming weeks. The first, called Active View, measures whether an ad is actually seen — or at least is available to be seen — by a user. Both the IAB and comScore have been pushing this “viewed” impressions metric, with the IAB’s proposed standard being a display ad that is at least 50% viewable on the screen for at least one second.

Active View will first be available on the Google Display Network Reserve, a subset of brand-safe sites within the Display Network on which the company guarantees delivery. Eventually it will be available in DoubleClick for Advertisers and across other products. Importantly, Google says advertisers will be able to pay only for viewed impressions.

Active GRP

The second initial metric is Active GRP (for Gross Rating Point), which builds upon the standard measure used in television media buying. GRP captures reach multiplied by frequency, and is expressed as a percentage. Google says it’s calculating Active GRP by combining aggregated panel data and anonymous user data, some of which is user-provided and some of which is behavioral. The company will submit the methodology for MRC certification.

Active GRP will be built into Google’s ad serving tools and the company says advertisers will be able to make adjustments in their campaigns while they are in progress. A pilot program for DoubleClick for Advertisers clients is currently in progress, and it will eventually be rolled out to other products.

Google says it’s also working on a brand impact survey pilot with Vizu, a brand lift measurement product and other cross-media measurement capabilities.

The company says it will continue to work on developing and implementing measures of value to brand marketers. Here’s the official video explaining the initiative:


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Pamela Parker
Pamela Parker is Research Director at Third Door Media's Content Studio, where she produces MarTech Intelligence Reports and other in-depth content for digital marketers in conjunction with Search Engine Land and MarTech. Prior to taking on this role at TDM, she served as Content Manager, Senior Editor and Executive Features Editor. Parker is a well-respected authority on digital marketing, having reported and written on the subject since its beginning. She's a former managing editor of ClickZ and has also worked on the business side helping independent publishers monetize their sites at Federated Media Publishing. Parker earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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