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The broadcaster-backed joint industry committee announced it will certify Comscore and VideoAmp as national TV currencies ahead of May’s upfront negotiations.

The MRC and the broadcaster-backed joint industry committee released a joint statement to clarify the difference between them, which has been a charged topic ever since the JIC formed last year.

The broadcaster-backed joint industry committee grants “conditional certification” to Comscore, VideoAmp and iSpot.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Split Decision The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, charged Google’s digital ad business with antitrust violations on Wednesday, CNBC reports. After a nearly two-year investigation, the commission found that Google’s end-to-end ad platform violates EU antitrust law. It pointed […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currency Contest Can the TV industry’s currency debate get any hotter? (For something so in the weeds, that is.) Guess so. Nielsen has formally repudiated the broadcaster-backed joint industry committee’s (JIC) video standards agreement. In a letter to OpenAP, the data vendor behind […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Currents Of Currency In January, a group of US broadcasters formed a joint industry committee, fronted by OpenAP, to work on new video currency standards. On Monday, the JIC published its first guidelines. The “first pass” on these guidelines establishes a baseline between […]

To create the caliber of inclusive cross-platform measurement that it aspires to – the Jont Industry Committee must broaden its horizons.

National broadcasters, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Fox and NBCU, are forming a joint industry committee to create a standard for multiple cross-platform video currencies in time for the 2024 upfronts. Notably absent from that initial list: Nielsen.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Yahoo? Yahoo has taken a 25% stake in Taboola as part of a 30-year exclusive ad deal (uhh … pardon?) that makes Taboola the primary native inventory seller for Yahoo’s media properties, The New York Times reports. The announcement leaves questions hanging. A […]

The data clean room category is like wet cement right now. And Snowflake is writing its name everywhere. On Monday, Snowflake announced an investment in OpenAP, an advertising identity data company co-owned by Comcast’s NBCUniversal, Fox, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.