Industry Conundrum—Execs Seek New Cross-Platform Measurement Tools
By | April 19, 2013
Advertisers, researchers and TV execs at the 2nd Annual Cross-Platform Video Measurement Summit in NYC Thurs agreed on one thing: it’s still a problem. “Severely lacking” was how Viacom evp/chief research officer Colleen Fahey Rush described cross-platform measurement. Experts at the conference presented by the Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement seemed to coalesce around TAXI, the advocacy platform for the adoption of Ad-ID and EIDR coding of video assets in order to track media across platforms. But they also agreed that the industry as a whole—including advertisers—must be on board for it to work.
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