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NIELSEN ACQUIRES VIZU TO MEASURE ONLINE AD EFFECTIVENESS

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Nielsen announced today that it’s acquiring ad tech company Vizu.

This isn’t the kind of deal where you have to wait months for something to
happen. Executive Vice President for Ad Effectiveness Scott McKinley says it’s a
“plug and play acquisition,” and in fact, Vizu’s Ad Catalyst will be available
immediately as part of Nielsen’s online ad measurement tools.

When the company decided to improve its ability to measure online ad
effectiveness, McKinley says Vizu was the obvious choice, since it’s the leader
in the field. Vizu’s technology shows brief polls to people who have seen an ad,
and others who haven’t — so advertisers can use the polls to determine whether
campaigns seem to improve people’s perception of their company. McKinley says
one of Vizu’s big draws is the fact that it provides advertisers with real-time
data, so that they can tweak campaigns based on the results.



Eventually, Nielsen will do more to integrate Vizu’s features with its
measurement of online ad reach, and with its cross-platform products. The goal,
McKinley says, is “bringing data out of Vizu systems and connecting up with how
we measure television, so we can offer advertisers a complete picture of reach
and effectiveness across television and online.”

Vizu raised more than $10 million in funding from investors including Ron
Conway, Esther Dyson, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, iNovia Capital, and Greycroft
Partners. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but McKinley says
the Vizu team will be joining Nielsen, and that it will continue working out of
its San Francisco offices.

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