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Billion-Dollar Ghost Impressions: Advertising’s Dilemma

A recent analysis by GroupM and analytics company iSpot has uncovered an expensive problem for advertisers: commercials on connected TVs persist even when the television is turned off, resulting in an estimated $1 billion per annum in squandered advertising spend. Conducted in June 2022, the study discovered that one main contributor to this issue was external devices providing streamed content, as bid requests remained active even when the TV was switched off.

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Nielsen Renews Push to Use Amazon ‘Thursday Night Football’ Audience Data in National Ratings (EXCLUSIVE)

These companies have enlisted measurement-tech firms including Comscore, Videoamp and iSpot to provide new data streams that offer a look at audience size and behavior. The trouble? Few of these efforts have been validated by the MRC, though some of Comscore’s and iSpot’s work has been examined and is in the process of being audited.

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Honda Again Leads Ranking of Most-Seen Auto TV Ads

For the second week in a row, Honda’s “Keep Dreaming” takes first place on iSpot.tv’s ranking of the most-seen auto ads – but its 218.1 million national TV ad impressions represented a 6.5% week-over-week decrease. In contrast to the other four ranked commercials, the top daypart by impressions was weekend afternoon (instead of primetime), delivering over 31% of the ad’s total impressions. Football was again a key focus: Across the entire week, NFL games generated over 60 million impressions and college football games racked up 28.4 million.

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