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comScore acquires Rentrak, will challenge Nielsen

October 1, 2015 by Veronica Villafañe

Comscore-RentrakDigital measurement company ComScore will acquire TV tracking specialist Rentrak. The stock-for-stock merger will create a digital and TV measurement company with the resources to challenge longtime industry leader Nielsen.

The merger is expected to close in early 2016. As part of the deal, Rentrak will become a subsidiary of comScore. Serge Matta, comScore’s CEO, will be the CEO of the combined company.

For years, media industry executives have criticized Nielsen’s audience measuring methods as outdated and inaccurate, pointing out that it fails to count delayed viewing and viewership on mobile devices and digital platforms.

The new comScore will potentially capture that missing data, since it specializes on measuring consumer’s digital viewing patterns and Rentrak tracks set-top box data that includes delayed television viewing.

“The merger of comScore and Rentrak represents an exciting milestone for our combined clients,” Matta said  in a statement. “Together we have an even more powerful ability to deliver what our clients and the media industry have long been asking for: a comprehensive cross-platform measurement currency that accounts for all the ways in which content is consumed, whether that happens on a desktop, mobile device, live or time-shifted TV, video on demand or through over-the-top devices.”

On Monday, Steve Hasker, Nielsen’s global president, said his company would have total audience measurement “by the end of the year.”

Filed Under: Digital, Media Tech & Trends Tagged With: comScore, Nielsen

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Most recently, a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

She is also a Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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