Millennials will sell personal data; People switch devices for bigger screens (RBDR–3/11/2014)

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Serge Matta named comScore’s new CEO; IBISWorld says MR buyers have the leverage with vendors; Kantar goes to India courts re new TV Ratings Standards; Unilever’s Sthanunathan to keynote ESOMAR MENAP meeting (RBDR–2/13/2014)

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Today: 1) comScore shuffles its executive management team around hiring of new CEO Serge Matta. 2) IBISWorld study reports that MR buyers have the negotiating leverage in dealing with MR vendors. 3) Kantar Marketing goes to court in India regarding new TV Ratings Standards, arguing that the new rules should have been approved by the country’s Parliament. 4) At ESOMAR’s MENAP meeting in Dubai next month, Unilever SVP-Consumer & Market Insights Stan Sthanunathan will deliver the keynote, with attention on the 7 mainstream trends that could shape the insights industry in the next decade.

An explanation why 70% of marketers failed in 2013; Second Screen participation (with TV) is at 42%–and rapidly expanding; WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell says opt-out no longer works for data collectors (RBDR–1/29/2014)

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2) Second Screeners (already 42% of consumers) say it strengthens their connection with TV programs they like to watch.
3) Millward Brown is predicting that multi-screen usage will become a dominant factor in 2014.
4) WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell says data collectors need to do away with opt-out and that businesses need to educate consumers about the benefits of Big Data.
5) Nielsen, in line with its FTC agreement allowing the acquisition of Arbitron, contracts with comScore to tap into —-Arbitron PPM TV and radio data.

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Nielsen enters online panel biz––will acquire Harris Interactive; Multi-platform marketing realities; Howard Moskowitz on CBS Sunday Morning; New York Times replaces Nate Silver (RBDR-11/26/2013)

Today: Nielsen Company is entering the Online Panel business–It will acquire Harris Interactive for $117 million… 1) comScore’s “Marketing to Multi-Platform Majority” white paper delves into a new reality: marketers must understand the digital devices that consumers use to access content, and the percentage of content they gain rom desktop versus mobile devices. 2) Moskowitz Jacobs’ President, Howard Moskowitz, played a major role on CBS Sunday Morning’s feature about healthy versus junk food. The link to his segment: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/food-wars-healthy-snacks-vs-junk-food/. Move to the 4:09 mark for Howard’s entree to the story.
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comScore negotiating for Arbitron cross-platform assets, Digital Marketing is working/not working (P&G says “Aye,” Adobe survey disagrees), Odd MR News (RBDR–9/25/13)

Today on RBDR: 1) comScore is negotiating with Nielsen to buy Arbitron technology
cross-platform assets. 2) How well is digital marketing working? Depends who you ask. An Adobe survey says there is still a huge learning curve; P&G says it’s working so well that digital marketing has become mainstream marketing. 3) Odd MR stories: The Wall Street trader who repeatedly (even on Election Day), aggressively bet that Mitt Romney would be elected president, plus the Houston Astro’s unbelievably low TV ratings (they couldn’t get lower).

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