Bob Lederer RBDR

Gian Fulgoni Returns as comScore CEO. Ad spending, Google & Facebook revenues up. (RBDR 08.15.2016)

Today on RBDR:

1) comScore reinstates Gian Fulgoni as CEO. GfK announces CEO Matthias Hartmann will leave the company by December, citing differences of opinion about the direction of the company.

2) U.S. advertising in the second quarter of 2016 received $2.5 billion in new spending, but in the same quarter Google and Facebook advertising revenues increased $2.5 to $3.0 billion.

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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.