Jon Watts (CIMM) led a conversation with the CEOs of an organization that is helping to manage the JIC (OpenAP) and one that participates in it (the VAB), the EVP of an organization that does not belong to the JIC but has met with it and the CEO of the MRC. The participants clarified their relationships with each other, discussed Nielsen and expressed their hope for the future of television measurement.
Robert L. Santos of the U.S. Census Bureau detailed how the organization is evolving itself, as well as its foundational statistics about America’s people and economy, in preparation for the Decennial Census in 2030.
Pete Doe – Chief Research Officer, Nielsen
Nielsen compared the implied ratings from ACR data and STB data in homes where they also have meters. The correlation was quite high, though panel adjustments raised the rating levels by about 1%. Big Data are limited in different ways: not all sets in a house provide ACR or STB data, they are devoid of persons information and STB’s are often powered up but the TV is off. Nielsen presented how a panel of 40,000 homes can be used to correct those biases. A critical finding was that projection of MVPD data outside of its geographic footprint significantly changed network shares. That said, Big Data can significantly improve local market data where samples are necessarily much smaller.Key Takeaways
Michael Tscherwinski – Principal, Media, Circana
Gregory Younkie – Sr Data Scientist & Data Strategy, Kraft Heinz
Michael Tscherwinski (Circana) and Greg Younkie (Kraft Heinz) explored how personalization of quality data can take performance up to the next level and shared learnings from a two year journey that found personalized impressions supported by the right data can drive stronger impact. Kraft started with its CRM recipe-focused data and grew it 17% with sweeps and games. Its in-house consumer insights platform, Kraft-O-Matic, had three core competencies with its consumer database incorporating 1P (first-party), 2P (second-party) and 3P (third-party) data, insights and analytics and agile marketing. Using identity resolution to match 1P data to devices and content, and enriching 3P data to create high-value audiences, Kraft then activated personalized marketing campaigns with speed to capture engagement and ROAS. Driving 1P acquisition, data enrichment, more personalized activation and uplift measurement resulted in a 93% lift in ROAS impact and secured an increase in media spend from leadership.Key Takeaways
Souptik Datta, Ph.D. – Sr. Director, Data & Analytics Services, GroupM
Michael Siewert – Programmatic Director, Colgate-Palmolive Co.
Michael Siewert (Colgate-Palmolive) and Souptik Datta (GroupM) presented how their companies worked together to combine measurement data for building custom solutions around bidding in the programmatic space. Colgate wanted to create their own quality definition for their inventory and be able to benchmark at a scalable cost benefit. Building a framework around their definition of quality and creating their own “qCPM” metric allowed them to understand the details of performance at a baseline and optimize with machine learning across 80+ markets and varying formats.Key Takeaways: Mapping their quality journey involved
The ARF hosted its annual flagship conference, AUDIENCExSCIENCE 2023, on April 25-26, 2023. The industry’s biggest names and brightest minds came together to share new insights on the impact of changing consumer behavior on brands, insights into TV consumption, campaign measurement and effectiveness, whether all impressions are equal, join-up solutions across multiple media, the validity, reliability and predictive power of Attention measures, targeting diverse audiences, privacy’s effect on advertising and the impact of advertising in new formats. Keynotes were presented by Tim Hwang, author of Subprime Attention Crisis, Robert L. Santos of the U.S. Census Bureau, Brian Wieser of Madison and Wall, LLC and Andrea Zapata of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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