NBC: Inconsistent Measurement (And Bad Ads) Are Holding The Industry Back

Author

Michael Beach
February 06, 2018

Is the current ad model sustainable? This is the question that industry leaders recently wrestled with.

Quote from Linda Yaccarino — Chairman of Advertising @ NBCUniversal.“NBC is committing to making television smarter, … That means improving the consumer experience, weaning ourselves off of a single currency metric, becoming more focused on meeting real business objectives. Who knows, [maybe] even reducing [our] commercial load across [the] board.”

The challenges:
1) Consumers dislike intrusive/irrelevant ads
2) Marketers are frustrated with measurement that is not based on ROI

Quote from Bob Rupczynski — CVP, Global Advertising @ McDonald’s.“There are occasions where we’re willing to pay more for a message targeted to a consumer’s needs, … We will never walk away from building the McDonald’s brand, but the more targeted and efficient we can get, the more we can drive an outcome for a specific subset of a segment.”

Quote from M.G. Siegler — General Partner @ Google Ventures.“But again, it’s hard to see how all of that translates to the Netflix era of television, let alone online. Because I don’t believe it does. In our ever-more-busy lives, we simply don’t have time to sit through minutes of content in hours of time to accommodate advertising. Yes, traditionally the advertising has paid for that content (and as such, our time), but the world is changing. Advertisers might be able to buy our “live” time, but our “non-live” time is increasingly not for sale. There’s simply too much else to do. “

Reply

or to participate.