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MarTech » Customer & Digital Experience » Google Finally Turns To Nielsen To Attract TV Ad Budgets, Following Twitter, Facebook

Google Finally Turns To Nielsen To Attract TV Ad Budgets, Following Twitter, Facebook

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Nielsen, the ratings firm that has long acted as the arbiter of audience metrics for TV advertisers, has seen demand for its services for online reporting rise among brands and agencies. Google has balked at allowing Nielsen’s online campaign reporting  tags to be placed on […]

Ginny Marvin on November 12, 2013 at 12:53 pm

google-nielsenThe more things change, the more they stay the same. Nielsen, the ratings firm that has long acted as the arbiter of audience metrics for TV advertisers, has seen demand for its services for online reporting rise among brands and agencies.

Google has balked at allowing Nielsen’s online campaign reporting  tags to be placed on its sites, which include leading online video site YouTube. Advertisers looking to buy on audience guarantees through OCR have walked away from YouTube deals.

Now, Google is changing its tune as it steps up efforts to court brand advertisers. The company is testing OCR deals with a select number of advertisers.

“While we continue to build measurement options powered by Google, we’re also partnering with industry leaders, such as Nielsen and comScore, to offer objective, credentialed, third-party measurement options,” said a Google spokesperson in a statement to AdWeek. “Nielsen’s OCR recently joined VCE as a certified measurement provider, and we’re working with both on roll-out plans after we do early testing.”

“Following a brief testing period,” a Nielsen spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal, it expects the “measurement tags to be accepted across all Google properties, including YouTube” by early next year. Google is also testing comScore’s Validated Campaign Essentials (VCE).

Facebook has partnered with Nielsen for several years now in order to provide performance data to advertisers, and Facebook is a leading provider of user data for Nielsen’s OCR to give advertisers the types of audience data brands receive from Nielsen for their TV advertising such as reach, awareness, frequency and demographics.

There is speculation that Facebook’s role in OCR was among the reasons Google had opted out for so long. Twitter began working with Nielsen in 2012 to create the “Nielsen Twitter TV Rating,” designed to complement Nielsen’s TV ratings in measuring “second screen” viewership.

Google’s own measurement options could supplant Nielsen (and comScore), but for now the ratings agency appears to be fully ensconced as the interpreter of online metrics into the traditional measurement language that brands and their agencies speak.


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.


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Ginny Marvin
Ginny Marvin was formerly Third Door Media’s Editor-in-Chief, running the day-to-day editorial operations across all publications and overseeing paid media coverage. Ginny Marvin wrote about paid digital advertising and analytics news and trends for Search Engine Land, Marketing Land and MarTech Today. With more than 15 years of marketing experience, Ginny has held both in-house and agency management positions. She can be found on Twitter as @ginnymarvin.

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