SAN JOSE, Calif.—Roku, Inc. has announced the launch of Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings (DAR) audience guarantees on OneView, making OneView the first ad buying platform to enable Nielsen guarantees across TV streaming. 

This means that users of Roku’s TV streaming ad platform OneView users can now choose a specific age and gender demographic, like adults ages 18 to 49, and pay only for the ad impressions that reach their target audience. 

Ahead of upfronts, audience guarantees in OneView are available for ads running on the Roku platform. Roku said this will make it easier to plan and measure an entire TV streaming upfront in OneView with apples-to-apples measurement to traditional TV.

In 2015, Roku became the first TV streaming platform to launch Nielsen guarantees. As a result of the ongoing strategic alliance between Roku and Nielsen, OneView will also be one of the first ad buying platforms to apply Nielsen measurement to all four screens: traditional pay TV, TV streaming, desktop, and mobile. 

“We believe that all TV ads will be streamed and that all TV ad measurement will be automated,” said Louqman Parampath, vice president of product management at Roku. “Now, upfront advertisers in OneView will be among the first to see audience overlap across major devices, channels, and publishers on their plan. Our goal is to offer diverse tech and measurement offerings that move the industry forward.” 

Roku has also made Nielsen audience guarantees more precise with data points from its direct relationships with consumers. This means that publishers who use OneView as a demand source can use unique proprietary data assets from Roku to improve the accuracy of their own audience guarantees, which in turn can save publishers money by wasting fewer ad impressions to fulfill their audience guarantees, Roku reported. 

NEW YORK—Nielsen is going international with its Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings tool for the YouTube mobile app, announcing that its advertising measurement service is now available to an additional 26 markets, bringing its total reach to 34 global markets.

The new markets able to utilize Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings include Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

The addition of this service allows for these global markets to build on the current measurement coverage of YouTube ads on desktop and mobile web browsers for a better cross-device measurement of YouTube’s advertising audience. The expanded service will offer age and gender demographics for consumers viewing advertising on the YouTube mobile app, as well as reach, frequency and gross rating points.

Measurement of YouTube ads uses a consistent methodology with all other mobile publishers in Digital Ad Ratings, allowing for comparable and deduplicated persons-based measurement across publishers.

Nielsen first provided measurement of Digital Ad Ratings for the YouTube mobile app to the U.S. in 2017.