The media industry’s standards group, the MRC (Media Rating Council), is gathering comments for a proposed “Audience Measurement Standard” that will be finalized and introduced in Q3, MRC CEO George Ivie tells Axios. The standard will provide more powerful metrics such as progress through the video ad coupled with in target audience performance.
“Advertisers are more serious than I’ve ever seen them in pulling back dollars from those who won’t be audited,” Ivie says. “I’ve never seen advertisers more energized than right now about the quality of measurement.”
How it works: The “duration-weighted metric,” as the MRC puts it, will be calculated by measuring impressions (the number of times someone is reached) that are viewable by the MRC’s standards (viewed for at least 2 consecutive seconds), combined with how long each of those verified views lasts.
“Not everyone loves it”, says Ivie. “Some don’t think weighting is necessary because in digital you have long-form and short-form viewing (which can be just seconds),” Ivie says. He hopes the new standard will be adopted by everyone, creating a single standard for all video measurement and ad buying across TV and digital in the U.S.
Sara Fischer. Coming soon: A standard for cross-platform video measurement. Axios.
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