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Building better connections
Brands that can harness data to dial in the right combination of influencer, platform, content and interest can create connections that drive engagement—and ROI.
Bridging the gap: Better audience targeting with context and behavior data
As engagement with digital channels continues to rise, understanding the consumers behind those engagements is essential for matching the right message with the right audience.
Nielsen Annual Marketing Report: Era of Alignment
Learn about future-focused marketing and advertising strategies for brand building and customer acquisition.
Uncommon Sense: The Key to Making Your Advertising Process Control Successful
Advertising, although inherently a creative process, offers many opportunities for greater efficiency. Advertising Process Control highlights the many non-creative areas that advertisers, publishers and agencies could and should work to control better to consistently improve their performance...
Uncommon Sense: Advertising Process Control – It's All Relative
Advertising Process Control is an advanced state to achieve. Before you can start managing your advertising production process, you need to accurately assess where your organization is on the Advertising Process Control continuum.
Uncommon Sense: Get a Grip on Your Advertising. Introducing Advertising Process Control
Reliable genius is what you really want from your advertising. Why aren't you getting it? Probably because you don't take your advertising production process as seriously as you take many of the other processes in your company.
The Total Audience Report: Q4 2014
Consumers' time and attention around media is fragmenting. While the risks and rewards are potentially high in this environment, the ability to stake a claim in the expanding industry pie is central to companies’ growth. And measurement will hold a key to enabling true understanding of audiences'...
Newswire | Uncommon Sense: How to Increase Your Digital Advertising Effectiveness Through 'Reach Efficiency' | Nielsen
Digital audience measurement is getting better: measurers are on the lookout for “fraudulent” views, are working to include only “viewable” impressions, and are measuring what percentage of people reached by a campaign actually belong to the group the advertiser was paying for. So what’s...
Uncommon Sense: The Appification of TV
For over 50 years, there was only a single "app" for TV viewers. The sole function of that app—the cable or satellite company—was to stream premium video content. The facts of yesterday’s TV viewing no longer hold. There are now many TV viewing apps available. Enter "the appification of TV."
Middle East/Africa Consumers Remain Bullish In Q3
Consumer confidence in the Middle East/Africa region revved up in the third quarter, increasing in all five countries measured by Nielsen’s Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions. With an index score of 112, the United Arab Emirates had the highest confidence in the region,...
Uncommon Sense: The Problem With Your Brand Value and What You Should Do About It
The problem with brand value is simple: no one agrees on it. The GE brand value, for example, in 2011, was variously estimated to be worth $30.5B, $42.8B, and $50.3B by different valuation services. So if valuations vary so wildly, how can CMOs and CFOs begin to understand the value they deliver...
Uncommon Sense: Making Measurement Work for Programmatic Ad Buying
The ad industry has always been consumed with the latest trends. This should be no surprise, given that marketers and their agencies spend the better part of their days trying to create them. But nothing in advertising has generated more buzz in recent months than programmatic buying. Buying ad...
Tapping the Full Potential of Mobile Advertising
There’s little doubt that mobile is here to stay, and its growing influence can be seen in pockets and purses around the globe. Smartphone penetration in the UAE, for example, stands at 78 percent, which is almost 10 percent higher than in the U.S. Despite the forward momentum, however, recent...