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Connecting the Marketplace - Announcing Quantcast Media Program

Publishers have long been using Quantcast to accurately measure and describe their audiences. More recently, Marketers have gained access to rich insights regarding their valuable consumer targets.

Today we launched Quantcast Media Program to connect Marketers and Publishers using consistent, actionable and accurate data applied at the impression level. A first for the industry.

Now, Marketers can access audiences of millions who look like their most desirable consumer - in a uniform way, at scale, across the industry's leading online publishers.

Quantcast Media Program provides advertisers with the first scalable way to define target audiences via their own data insights and apply this custom segmentation consistently throughout the buying process. Publishers are now able to provide improved inventory packaging and expand the range of advertisers they can effectively serve.

See what AdAge had to say.

And what leading buyers and sellers think:

"Advertisers ultimately want to deliver the right message to the right audience, and this system allows us to provide an even greater level of granularity and targeting capability across our broad range of quality content," said Peter Naylor, Senior Vice President, Digital Sales, NBC Universal. "We're pleased to be working with Quantcast to help add that additional insight and value for our clients."

"While the future of advertising is addressable, Quantcast takes this concept one step further by giving the advertiser control over defining their own consumer segments and consistently applying those definitions across media outlets," says Ed Montes, EVP and Managing Director, Havas Digital. "By defining audience segments based off our own unique consumer engagements, we are able to obtain a much clearer view of our consumer and to have confidence that our messages are reaching the right audiences."

Learn more about Quantcast Media Program today!

June 23, 2009

TiVo and Quantcast Bring Marketers Cross-Platform Audience Analysis

Tivo-logo Advertisers and media companies are constantly searching for better ways to evaluate advertising effectiveness and media consumption across platforms. Today, we announced our partnership with TiVo to bring the advertising marketplace an innovative TV and Internet audience reporting solution to provide cross-platform insights on an unprecedented scale. This new solution is the most comprehensive cross-platform media analysis solution available for correlating television viewership and online activity.

The TiVo/Quantcast partnership marries television viewership data from TiVo's 35,000 household-strong opt-in Power||Watch™ rating panel and directly-measured data from Quantcast's innovative direct measurement offering. The unique approach will deliver unprecedented insights on the overlap that exists between TV and online audiences and the effectiveness of TV advertising at driving specific downstream online actions (and vice-versa).

At Quantcast, we are focused on helping advertisers and media companies improve their understanding of real-time audiences, so that addressable advertising solutions can evolve, and this new partnership is a critical part of that effort. 

You can find more details on the offering at the TV/Online Advertising Effectiveness overview and to inquire about using the service reach out to us directly.

May 31, 2009

Quantcast @ Internet Week

Logo_2 Next week on Tuesday, June 2nd, Quantcast CEO, Konrad Feldman will speak at the Digital Media Summit as part of Internet Week. The conference, organized by GCA Savvian, will bring together top leaders to discuss sell-side topics of the digital media industry. The panel will be moderated by Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the IAB, and will also include BlueKai, ContextWeb and Media6degrees. Internet Week New York is a week-long festival of events saluting New York's thriving Internet industry and the many talented companies, organizations, and innovators creating the future of online media. It is presented by IADAS & The Mayor's Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting.

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April 13, 2009

Quantcast Launches New Tools for Marketers, Enables Enhanced Customer Segmentation

Marketer Today, we launched Quantcast Marketer - a free service we've had in closed beta for the past 6 months. It's a significant addition to our product offering, and provides marketers - for the first time ever - the ability to easily obtain valuable demographic and interest-based insights about their customers as they are exposed to advertising and/or interact with content or functionality on brand sites.

Most importantly, Quantcast Marketer enables these proprietary insights to be used to identify where larger groups of similar consumers can be found across the Web - a significant improvement over the widely used "retargeting" tactic, which limits a marketer's ability to reach only those customers who have actually visited a brand site.

Premier agencies (Razorfish, Neo@Ogilvy) and marketers (Lenovo, Kia, Scottrade and Virgin America) joined over 40 participants in the Quantcast beta program, representing product categories from CPG, Financial Services, Travel, Automotive, Technology, and Education. You can explore case studies here.

If you are a marketer or agency, you can begin using Quantcast Marketer today by completing this form.

Thank you to everyone who participated in Quantcast Marketer's beta program. We look forward to receiving continued input now that it is available publicly.

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March 27, 2009

Another Quarter, Another Milestone

Just in time for the close of Q1, our Quantified Publisher program has hit another milestone surpassing 6 billion impressions in a single day for the first time on March 26th, 2009.

That's over 164 billion impressions in the proceeding 30 days, and all of that with the industry's fastest measurement tags.

A big thanks to all of our Quantified Publishers!

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March 20, 2009

Pixel performance that beats Nielsen, comScore, Omniture and even Google

Part of Quantcast's commitment to our customers is a program of continual development in our core technology infrastructure – lower latency and better availability makes for a happier consumer experience. The latest independent tests of our service show performance levels that clearly lead the industry.

Recently, our global network of data centers passed an important milestone – recording over 100k media consumption events per second at peak load. While our volume has increased massively, we've also been able to improve the performance and we're pleased to provide the latest pixel performance results from Gomez, a leading independent provider of web experience management solutions.

February 2009 performance results from Gomez show Quantcast delivering a US mean pixel response time of just 40.04ms. That's 1.86x faster than Google, 4.60x faster than Omniture, 4.88x faster than comScore and whopping 8.37x faster than Nielsen. 

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March 16, 2009

"Why care about website measurement?" Quantcast featured in Technology Review this month

If you haven't had a chance to check out the Technology Review piece from this month on the challenges, issues and promise of digital measurement today, it's worth a look. We enjoyed the article's basic question about measurement, "Why care about something as arcane as dodgy audience measurement?" With a perspective of a publisher himself, writer Jason Pontin understands the answer to this question all too well – and describes the importance of audience measurement to the future of the media industry. Pontin pulls apart the story of measurement's past, present and future, examining outdated panel-centric models and cutting to the chase about the number one challenge in digital, "...what worked with television doesn't work nearly so well with the Web." Pontin goes on to have a look at the promise of 'built for digital' approaches, and spends time with our CEO Konrad Feldman and Co-Founder Paul Sutter in our San Francisco office to get a better sense of how we do what we do – which ultimately is about a lot more than just measurement. The piece is an important look at the bigger picture issues facing media and advertisers today, and we're thrilled to be part of the dialogue regarding real solutions. It's great to see more mainstream media channels examining this story – and we're eager to keep the conversation going.

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March 13, 2009

From outdated panel based measurement to understanding participation on Twitter: Our chat with Robert Scoble

A couple weeks ago, we had a visit from noted Silicon Valley blogger Robert Scoble, who came in to chat with our CEO, Konrad Feldman. The result was a couple great and in depth videos on our approach, and insight on why we're able to get Mr. Scoble's praise as his "favorite measurement tool." The two interviews cover a lot of ground – from why our approach is a dramatic departure from measurement systems of the past, to the future of digital marketing and why we are so focused on making digital media easier for marketers to work with. The interview even gets into how Twitter and other social media sites can, and should be measured in the future. The conversation is a great watch for anyone interested in the future of digital measurement and marketing – have a look and let us know what you think.

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March 05, 2009

Introducing Quantcast Addressable Segments

Today, Quantcast launched a transformative feature to our Quantified Publisher profiles – Quantcast Addressable Segments. Conceived to enable publishers and advertisers to transact based on actionable audience data, Quantcast Addressable Segments provide a transparent understanding of audience segments that can actually be purchased, delivered and validated.

Segments_slider Quantcast Addressable Segments are currently available for the 1,000 largest Quantified Publishers (based on monthly audience size). As with other profile data sets, publishers can enable their Quantcast Addressable Segments in their account settings for public (the default setting) or for private view. They can also permission access to specific Quantcast users who request access to data that is not available for full public view.

Quantcast Addressable Segments provide you with the ability to understand actionable audience data for key segments that brand advertisers seek – based on age, gender, income, ethnicity and education. A core feature of Quantcast Addressable Segments is the "Adjust Segment" module, which allows users to customize audience composition and coverage levels. Moving the slider to the left increases the audience composition of your segment, but reduces the coverage (high composition settings restrict a segment to the audience with the highest conformity to the desired target definition). Even when set to the highest setting (furthest left), a Quantcast Addressable Segment's composition will rarely equal 100%, given the impact of things such as cookie deletion and multiple people using the same computer. Our models continually improve due to the rapid adoption by publishers delivering ever-increasing volumes of census-level data into our service.

Once you define an audience, you will see a new profile for the property you are evaluating, highlighted by a blue header. The profile that is generated represents the actual audience coverage and composition for the particular Quantcast Addressable Segment you have defined, and represents an actionable audience that could be purchased in market.

Newhuff We welcome, and look forward to your feedback, which can be submitted at publisher@quantcast.com. To learn more about Quantcast Addressable Segments, visit our overview and FAQ.

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February 24, 2009

100,000 events per second!

That's the number that our Quantified Publisher program surpassed at 9:14am PST today. 100,000 media consumption events every second from the millions of web destinations that participate in our program, totaling one third of a Terabyte of data every hour.

Yes, we know it's geeky, but it takes a lot of engineering to support this load with the fastest tags in the industry and we're proud of it: 13 global data centers, dynamic failover between data centers (in under six seconds!), sub 40ms average pixel response in the US and super high availability (even better than Akamai).

(For those interested at 9:14 our Washington DC data center had the highest load, closely followed by our two European centers, with Chicago just beating out New York for 4th place.)

Most importantly, we could never have hit this milestone without the support of you, our participating Quantified Publishers, and we want to thank you for trusting us with your audience.

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WebTrends Integration

Starting today, WebTrends users will be able to access the detailed demographics profiles provided by Quantcast using WebTrends specific values. This integration utilizes WebTrends' Tag Builder product (https://tagbuilder.webtrends.com) to significantly simplify the setup process using pre-defined WebTrends variables as the base. Learn more about this integration at http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/publisher/WebTrends+Integration.

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